Welcome, Jim, you've made it. . . now the bad news, there are 100's of thousands of messages. . . now the good news, learn our "Forums" button on the top of the page and look at the 100's of forums about a single topic. Near the top of the forums list are answers to questions from new divers, then following forums of dive gear, but an area for findind divers, and diving conditions around the world in the forum "Regional travel and dive clubs".
Click on . . ."United States" then scroll down to "Texas Swamp Divers" with colder water right now, use the "search" button to go back to last summer's postings to meet more Texas divers.