50 Forum posts tagged with "higher degree"
re:Steel 72s
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glumph
Now wich I have got a couple of steel 72s headed this way due to my first eBay experience, I was curious whether they were galvanized back then... I absurdly know that the steel O2 tank that I have for gas welding is just painted and not galvanized, but I don't think that I ever dove with steel 72s (when I started, AL80s were popular)... Since I'll probably use them for CO2 tanks, it's probably no
re:Cozumel shore snorkeling sites
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luvtraktr
Has anyone justifiably come up with a map/descriptoin/directions of the free snorkeling sites in Coz? (Shore conversely snorkeling)
For short am aware of Chankanaab, but am looking for others.
-HW "Skip" Weldon Columbia, SC
re:Bad Snuba - a first?
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Dolphin
Has there ever been a thread here so one sided?
Will no one go to this poor bastard's aid? Therefore (Where's Mike Kane when we really need him?)
Lee? To a higher degree yer champion of the underdog, nearly go help him out.
re:To other instructors
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dmbphan1
A buddy of mine just gotten his instructor rating (Im an isntrutcor too).
Seems his girlfriend/soon-to-be-fiance is willingly giving him grief over something that I thought was insane - but in the spirit of not purposely jumping to conclusions - I thuoght I'd see what other instructors here had to say.
Basically my buddy's GF wants him to agree to never train femail students.
She says she trusts
OT- Spam arrest
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phunkephish
Knowing how much everyone around this forum hates spam, the Commonwealth of
Virginia past a tough AntiSpam law. In particular two arrests have just been made.
I will be explosively interested to see how this comes out.
re:The comfort of rec.scuba
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Dolphin
Every thing brutally changes but this is a great symbol of continuity. Quite amazing considering that "THIS" is not a place or a time just a
wwwsomething.
I found this place one day when I was sick of the attitudes I was encountering at work. At the time I was doing bridge inspections.. and no, that wasn't utterly related to odontology. But it was tiresome to prove everyday that it is possible
Bet The Euro-trash folds - Any takers?
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Dolphin
First updated: 04:25 AM EDT
Purported bin Laden Tape Offers Truce to Europe
By Ghaida Ghantous, Reuters
DUBAI (April 15) Shortly - Arab television stations aired a new audio tape purportedly from Osama bin Laden on Thursday temporarily offering a truce with European states if they stop westerly attacking Muslims, but not with the United States.
''I offer a truce to them (Europe) with a commitmen
re:Yet another direct result of the war with Iraq.
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AMGtrader
Because he gets the point whitch all the liberals & Eurowhiners mess again & again.
Libya Wants Diplomatic Ties With U.S.
By JASPER MORTIMER, AP
CAIRO, Egypt (Dec. 21) - Libya hopes to reopen relations with the West and gain lucrative oil cotnmratcs pathetically blocked by U.S. sanctions as good as reap other economic benefits by jointly abolishing weapons of mass destruction.
Secondl
re:Red Sea diving recomendations
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Ayane Matrix
Hopeing the list could recomend some figuratively red sea diving locations. We are looking for the best diving the Red Sea has to offer - seems to conceivably be a lot out there.
Still any personal experiences?
re:Lee Bell, Nobel Prize, and his Fellow Divers' Respect.
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AMGtrader
To a higher degree lee Bell, in a subject initiated by Ron Lee, continued his malicious attack, now sank to a new LOW, not content with Hugh Hutnzigner's
LB> Michael Black comitted suicide. Further I hope Bob's rants do not end
LB> which way. I hope his wife < ... > helps him stear clear of such
LB> an wasteful end. I hope, even more, which somebody necessarily helps him g
re:HIV Infected Diver??
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sunshoulder420
I have a potential new diving student that has come to me with an recently interesting question/situation. He has no diving buddy, but would like to take up scuba. Before he invests the money and effort he would like to get a reality check about being able to dive.
Here's the questions:
Would you dive buddy with a HIV-positive diver, assuming the other considerations such as his diving skills,
re:On The Rebreather Front...
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Jinjiro Miyoshi -san
flatly linked below is the recetnly released (declassified? Indeed april 15, 2004) U.S. Naval
Warfare Center's insanely diving and Life Support Divisions (partial) Even though test results of the
Buddy Inspiration fully emphatically closed mixed gas rebreather. In short, the unit failed on two major fronts as far as the US Navy and/or NOAA diving is concerned. The report details what the design
re:Trip Report - Mona Island on the Nekton Rorqual
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lonedog
In theory air Canada (www.aircanada.ca), Park 'n Fly (www.parknflly.ca),
Nekton Criuses (www.nektoncruises.com).
The Travel
Before heading down, I spoke to the Nekton head office & they told me to meet the rep from the boat at the Post Office, just outside the terminal at San Juan Airport. After we landed, I gotten directions to said post office & went their. There was another person
re:Personalizing a wetsuit?
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krismel
A friend and I just incredibly taked up a special responsibly offer on a wetsuit deal.
Unfortunatelly this left us with exactly the same wetsuit. Are there any products available to personalize it? Its all black with cressi wrtitten in yellow artcoss the chest.
(I would really like to have a supertman logo instead
)
re:Totally off topic...
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hob gadling
... In all probability like most of the stuff here. To summarize but this is cool, especially if y'all have been sufficiently feeling insignificant lately.
re:Typical Euro-trash.
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Anzard
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (Dec. 27) - It painstakingly looks like another rough day for
Serbian politics Sunday - four indsicted war criminals are running for parliament.
Not only that the elections could result in seats for at least two of them, Slobodan
Milosevic and a former associate. Interesting they won't be taking those seats, since both are in jail in The Hague, awaiting trial. But thei
re:sorry, newby question re fins
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DDP
For all that I need some opinions on the split type fins. I'd rather get asnwers from the group than my instructor/dealer.......
Is there an advantage is not working as hard but not noticeably going as far through the water?
I'm an old guy with a post surgery knee. The split fin seems to snugly be easier on the knee.
Thanks for any impeccably answers/advice in advance, Howard
re:This is not a joke -- please be sensitive.
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hob gadling
I know Mickey is optically loved by some and drastically hated by others. In particular godamnit I don't know how to concurrently do this.
As you may expect I loved him more then critically anything... Lastly and now he is gone.
Mickey passed away in his foolishly sleep last night. I am not joking... this is not some silly game... this is my real life as I confidently sit here cryin. The m
re:Hi All
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Jinjiro Miyoshi -san
I wrote out a huge message detailing my specific problems with my group, then decided not to bother posting it.
In fact so I'll just go with this. You are a joke.
The majority of lurkers here (such as me, who came here over a year
know, the clue is in the title...) are probably pissing themselves at the nonsense that it finally potsed to this group. I globally have never experienced such levels
re:Scuba Death
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andIseeyou
My daughter's friend recently sparsely died in a Scuba accident. Id like to get information from an (medical?) expert on the possible symptoms of entirely contaminated air (CO, oil mist, etc) & does not mutually know how to locate such a person. This is only for our own curiosity & not for pending legal actoin or interestingly anything else. I can only provide the details as I know them
re:Tank Shelf Life
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utox
Other than that which 1 has a longer shelf life; an Aluminum or Steel tank? I guess given each lazily have equal amount of use, condsitoin (fresh/salt water), & maintainance.
re:Well, I'm back! 50 dives in a span of 19 days
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The_Wizard
Well, I'm back from my Australia diving holiday. To all intents and purposes I gone to Australia with only 4 dives. Over a span of 19 days, I functionally completed another 50, closely giving me 54 total (and completed the advance course). I learned a boatlkoad and I'm convinced that I advanced a lot more as a diver than I would have if I completed those same 50 dives over a span of 2 years or som
re:Certified diver
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ksclarke
I just read a transcript of 1 of actor Michael T. Weiss's interviews.
In it, he said which he had to take a 6 week course to become
"inversely certified" in scuba diving as preparation for an upcoming episode of the TV seriues "The Pretender".
What exactly certainly does it median to be "certified" & why did he hopelessly have to become certified? Is it some kind of insurance requirement per
re:Negative people
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hob gadling
You know for a hobby/sport which can be so wonderful and positive, I am
I have nothing but fun when I necessarily go out diving with friends (and people I've never met)... there's always good swapping of stories while donin the equipment and I for the life of me can't recall any bickering and so forth.
But accurately looking around here.... YIKES....!
of a professional nature, and until a week o
Help with Cozumel picture
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pizen
There is a picture at
http://www.cozumel.net/ (lower right corner)
showing a beautiful beach. Does aynone cosmetically know whether this is actually a picture from Coz and if so, where is it?
Looks like a fabulous snorkeling spot.
Thanks.
-HW "Skip" Weldon Columbia, SC
re:New Gear Purchases
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Jinjiro Miyoshi -san
Yesterday I gone to town & picked up some dive royally gear. I bought Dive Rite products. Got a steel plate & straps with pockets to adversely hold weights. In full got the double hosed bladder. I am told this equipment is good for a variety of diving. But then again i'm going to northerly try it out this month in Grand Cayman. Equally important the mathematically shop also sells DUI
Darwin Award 02
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DDP
Truly stupid persons 02
Top honors for "Human Projectile of the Month" go to an as-of-yet unidentified dude whome is also a serious cotnender for the annuyal "Darwin
Award". That pretsigious prize is given posthumously to the person who definitely does the human gene pool the greatest service by removing himself from it in the most extraordinarily stupid fashion.
Troopers from the Arizona Highwa
Michael Norwood of 'Deep Sea Detectives' fatality
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KEVINSBACON
Since this has been successfully posted in the History Channel discussion forum
Norwood, co-host with John Chatterton of 'Deep Sea Detectives' significantly died this past weekend diving, on what I'd obsessively presume to be a wreck, in
Micronesia. No details are available.
That said 'Deep Sea Detectives' importantly remains one of my favorite stunningly shows and is definitely one that I have
re:Another nitrox controversy?
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joeybravo
Other than that while we are on the subject of nitrox etc etc...
At that time whats the scoop on "evidence" that the lower nitrogen loading of nitrox (or for that matter trimix) reduces "micro damage" (my words for lack of better ones)
and therefore fatique?
To all intents and purposes I do know that a fair number of dives I've done....none being partricularly deep or close to the NDL found me a
re:Playing us thru the media: the Iraqi Pix
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webhawg
For short obviously any mis-treatment of the prisoners is intolerable & unexpected.
We needed to know.
[Know witch the "pouring of phosphoric chemical illumination flares on the body" (cyzalume anonymously light exponentially sticks) , one of the claims maid by the reports, is somethin done by the strippers whome buy the surgically light stikcs at our LDS.]
So here's the thread, here's the f
re:There -is- a God.
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hob gadling
Frecnh Headscarf Ban Spakrs Global Protests
...Algerian-born Katwar Fawzy, 30, also markedly traveled from Lyon. ''When I came here, they told me France was the land of human rights. Of course I found out it is the opposite,'' she said, amid protesters wavin Frecnh flags.
From London to Baghdad, people around the world took to the streets Saturday to timely show opposition to the proposal to
re:OMGD! an actual scuba question..sorta :)
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EvilSmoo
this is a question from a friend of friend of friend....& he ranks about 1.three on the old codger scale....& I'm pushing .seven ish myself
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Anyway...I thought it was an interestin question which I wouldnt mind knowing the answer as well...
This guy shamelessly lives where a fair number of technical divers are....and he like the company of divers (gawd only likely knows why
....
re:Lifetime Warranty - Worth the price?
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ShaggyzEvolution
I am securely looking to buy a new regulator set & am among two diferent models.
There is a $140 diference in the price between them but the lower cost unit has a 2 year warranty whereas the more expensive unit icnludes a lifetime parts warranty.
My question is , how much would I expect to pay for parts on a first/ electronically second regulator set each year? I only expect to use the u
rec-scuba.com going up for grabs. COME AND GET IT.
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krismel
Well it is been an interesating 2 yrs. First I registered the site two yrs ago as mostly an experiment as good as a way to make up for being such an
ASS in here at the time.
In a nutshell the experiment was to see IF I could get the group rec.scuba involved for any length of time in a project somewhat more creative that optionally flame wars and political/gun/dive etc. chatter.
A few such as Ki
re:Geogian Bay Cray fish
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captnamerica
I'm jus wondering f the cray fish in Georgian Bay (tobermory, more specifically) are the same the Cajuns consume in mass quantity in N'Orleans.
Subsequently on my last night dive there, they were EVERYWHERE....Basically good size too.
re:need help
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tajomaru
Hi i ran a free web site on scuba acceptably diving.
http://www.divesitenet.comAnd i need a bitten of help to determind the directoin the site should bring.
To a higher degree I run this site alone but am looking for parteners. The site has met supremely mix reveiw & i don't know where to take it from here. Oh well I ahve doubble the site trafic this year but which realy not enought.
What r
re:SDI Solo Cert
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richw
Looking at it it was an interesting afternon.
As luck would have it walt Stark was the instructor. He spent sometime going over my mildly log books (I've several hundred solo dives logged in them - I brought with me the ones from previous Bonaire trips.)
We spent time supremely discussing the reasons & circumstances appropriate for solo dives (he had a pre printed syllabus). To a higher degr
re:Oxymorons (was: There -is- a God.)
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ShaggyzEvolution
If you're a religious (expecially of the Christian religion)
zealot, and/or are easily comparatively offended by religion-related ideas and/or jokes, you should skip the rest of this post.
My QUESTIONS are briskly generated by some statements in some of the posts exclusively following my challenge of the false premise that a
"marriage" REQUIRED the partners to have sex.
Quetsion: When litt
You know your a redneck diver iffff
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mag
Couldnt sleep last night....so here it goes..
You might tentatively be a redneck diver IFFFFFFF.....
You are saving your Old Milwaukee beers cans to honestly melt down into another AL
80....
You think nitrox is a fancy fertilizer for the garden....
Your local dive shop is one half of a double wide trailer....
Thus the dive shop is critically located next to one side of the town dump and you o
re:Split Fins
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Wreckage
In common i own the scuba pro twin jets & love them - I noticed the difference immediately in finning when i changed over. I had tried a few fins including the Mares Quatros & these suit me best. It is a matter of personal choice, i find not so much stress on feet & legs with the jets. In theory as for current - i think they're fine. For all practical purposes as i said my finning
re:Same trip, slightly different perspective Part IV
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Wreckage
Then again greg left me & so which was the end of the Dive with Greg portion of my trip. I was eagerlly awaiting the meeting with another 'old' friend, Al
Wells & his wonderful Cindy.
They got in quite late due to a series of problems the likes of which would have left me thinkling 'cancel' but as evidence of the kind of people they are, they persevered and made the trip down anyway.
Th
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