Hi Neil... thanks much!
Hows work? (lucky bastad).
I went diving last week off the Spectre and thought about ya! All went well. Very well. Had some great diving. Someone nailed a really nice sized Halibut just after jumping in (directly under the boat). The East/north side of the island was getting rough (low vis), so we went to the south or west side of Anacapa. Vis was not bad at the coral reef, tons of fish. The last dive at "underwater Island" was very surgie..... and vis was so so. All in all had a great time. Chicken was great.
Even the boat ride home was outstanding...... a giant school of dolphin passed right through us. Must have been thousands of them.... the were just all over, what seemed like a 1/4 mile wide strip of a huge school of them. Very fun to watch.
I did try my steel 120 with my al backplate, 7mm wetsuit. I dove with 12lbs of lead, and it felt very good. It worked out that I was pretty near neutral at 10 feet at the end of the dive. Just wanted to see how it would work. I agree with you though... I think the steel is best left for when I am going to dive the drysuit.
Need to get together with you on the drysuit. I still have your computer sitting here if you have not picked another one up yet.
What I will probably do is put in a new hard drive, and then add yours into the new computer at your place, so that you will have access to all of your old files.
Anyway...... thanks on the Apeks manual and Aqualung.
If you still want to work out something on the drysuit-computer, etc., just keep the CD for me until we hook up.
Let me know of any dives coming up too.