Truth Aquatics 3-day liveaboard trip - packing advice

[coreypenrose]

I'm trying to be as well-prepared for my upcoming Channel Islands trip as I can, so am taking all advice offered here very seriously. This one has me stumped, though. I never heard of "TS patches" before, but would assume from context that it's some sort of motion sickness prevention. I went to a pharmacology web page for information on it, and got the following:

Main Use
Climacteric complaints after cessation of monthly bleeding or deficiency symptoms after oophorectomy or radiological castration for non-carcinomatous diseases, such as hot flushes, outbreaks of sweat, sleep disturbances, depressive moods, irritability, headaches, dizziness, bladder irritation, signs of muco-cutaneous involution.

Wow! Do I really need this? Despite the reference to "radiological castration", this sounds more like a female thing.

Bruce

http://www.prevent-motion-sickness-scopolamine.com/

TS patches = Transderm Scop patches.

 

[saf_25]

Shouldn't this be in the SoCal section?

This post originated last year when all CA was one group. When they divided the posts up between the two, it was put in No Cal. I think they use Santa Barbara as the division between North and South, so it's kinda on the border.

 

[zf2nt]

Shouldn't this be in the SoCal section?

No, these are northern California people who, I believe, share common questions about a pending experience. In that sense, it seems entirely appropriate. And in any case, what is the harm from people talking to people?

There is another bay area diving forum (ba_diving) for which Chuck is the moderator. I accept the fact that ba_diving is Chuck's private sandbox and, having sprayed all 4 corners, he can have it to himself. But last I looked, he was not the moderator here. Thus I cannot see how the censure implied above is appropriate.

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

No censure, just a simple question. And the original
question came from Orange County.

 

[renpirate]

Do all of the boats have dvd players? I'm going on the Truth and am wondering if it has one. My dive shop seemed to think it didn't.

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

The conception has a dvd player, we watched it every night.

Those benches along the outside of the boat are for staging, not for storage. Use the large center area for storage. Under the benches is ok but on top is a no no. We had a couple of kids on the trip I just came back from who would undress and leave their gear all over the place. Finally another guy and I spoke to them but it didn't help. So we put their gear away for them. That seemed to get through to them

We had a wonderful trip there this past weekend and the 4 day trip took us to the southern islands which was way warmer with way better vis than up north. I did 16 dives the first 3 days but only 1 dive the last as the vis was poor and the water colder. I could have done two more the last day but chose not to.

We will dive with them again.