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SUPER! Thank you! That turned into a few other videos and a sea life education moment for my son and I 
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captain
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See what you Florida guys are missing not allowing offshore drilling.
Mmm... could be. I'm more supportive of devolving our dependance on a limited resource and angling more towards renewables. I do like the structures creating wildlife habitats though!
seadoggirl
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Thank you sooo much. That is some great video. We dive rigs here in Alabama also. I didn't notice anybody with spearguns, do you guys spearfish over there?
OK, where is Venice ; how do I get there; who do I charter with?
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seadoggirl:
Sure do.
Tigerman
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Nice diving for sure!
However Im kinda supprised that its allowed to dive near the rigs, given the fact that an oil rig would be an attractive terrorist target?
Up here in the cold north I dont think divers would be very welcome around the oil rigs..
However Im kinda supprised that its allowed to dive near the rigs, given the fact that an oil rig would be an attractive terrorist target?
Up here in the cold north I dont think divers would be very welcome around the oil rigs..
That was precisely my testimony a few weeks ago at a Department of Interior hearing in Panama City regarding offshore drilling regulations. It was interesting that the environmentalists claimed to be worried offshore rigs would damage our tourism industry rather than enhance it.captain:
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captain
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Tigerman:
That issue was addressed after 9/11 and it was decided that it was a non issue. Off the Louisiana coast there is only one platform that I know of that is off limits, the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port where supertankers are unloaded. At all the others you may be asked to leave if you are in the way of some ongoing work or a supply boat but all you have to do is move a mile or so to another rig.
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