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Thanks!

I think you missed a shrimp.

Andrew modeled himself after a dromedary for streamlining and air storage.

I like the tiny Puget sound crab on the plaque. And the other ones :)

What Hawaii needs is marine sanctuaries instead of half-baked rules somewhat protecting the occasional fish species in the occasional tiny area.

That looks surprisingly nice?

I've tried a couple of times and remember you said you typically didn't have much luck either. One time we had a decent dive as we reached ten-mile wall, then got hit by a strong current; a second time viz was near-zero, and a third time we (= Andrew) actually got lost in some hilly terrain and...

Keep trying Spring Bay? :) Close-ups look cool but the longer distances look uhm typical?

I'm pretty sure I saw one of those two fish in Minnewanka. Where's the other?

Wow, both your map and the BAUE maps are amazing! I hope I'll get a chance to dive in that area some time. Thanks.

I saw Whaler's Cove for the first time a few weeks ago. Looked like a shallow fishbowl with kelp :) Very nice, but not quite what you're showing. Do you start in the fishbowl and scooter to the outside? What is the distance to the reefs in your movie? If you start from Monastery beach do you go...

It's BC, it could have been at noon :)

Canada is very confused. Officially it uses the metric system but imperial (English) is in common unofficial use. Weights are in pounds, heights in feet/inches, and I've never seen a diver use metric for depth or pressure although odds are there are a few. Even in the US there's at least one...

Thanks for the pictures. You haven't really increased my motivation to go look at the thing :)

I have done about the same courses you have done and have similar feelings about tech diving (possibly fun in San Diego or BC although not an obvious choice, much less appealing in Alberta; although, every time I visit SD or BC I start thinking about working on a GUE-F tech pass and deep BC...

Interesting story. I was at Sipadan two months ago. I saw the map of the cave on the boat. It clearly was a cave, not a cavern, and they even offered a special 'cave dive', which I think involved proper cave gear for at least a DM/guide and only one or two divers, but I didn't follow up...

Who were you diving with?

A Fundies tech pass is the main prereq for GUE tech/cave training. However, the skills in Fundies for a rec pass are quite generic, as mentioned above. You can do the course in a single tank in a wetsuit without a can light. I met quite a few GUE-trained divers and many were clearly pursuing a...

My experience with GUE-trained insta-buddies in SoCal on several boat trips was excellent, similar to the experience of others described above. No surprises, system works, would love to be in SoCal again or try Florida (the reefs, not the wet rocks). Experience with non-GUE insta-buddies on...

Ogden Point is special. At many water levels it's not obvious where to sit if the level of the water is out of whack with the big stone blocks that make up the breakwater, breaking waves smack you around while sitting, and sitting on the lower blocks (where the water is :)) is likely to make a...