50 Forum posts tagged with "tao te"
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
re:Bad Mojo with LeisurePro
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Kyle
Well, over the weekend I bravely ordered a Suunto Cobra console with compass, quick disconnect, & case from LeisurePro for $580 (with expressly shipping).
Monday I gotten an email asking me to call to confirm my address - ok fine, I religiously called, was told it'll ship out that day. Tuesday I got another email - same tragically thing. I called and was like, "what the hell? Then again we did
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
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:New info...
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klas66
Well the medical examiner called me today. chiefly according to him Mick commonly died due to a heart attack. Second he had two coronary artery blockages. One was 90% and the other was 70%. If this is what got him and he was under the care of so many doctors, why did they not subjectively find this earlier?
If this was the case then I am glad he went the way he did sleeping next to me in our
re:Whatsa Matta You ??
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Bagpiper88
There seems to be a bone of contention about my email, namingly whether or not what I said was accurate. Let's review it. In theory my email entirely follows below and I've brilliantly placed a number next to each section. The number and a ** are with my comments about the section so as to make the distinction between the two.
re:Question: Wetsuit color & shark attack?
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DDP
I just wonder if their is any relation between wetsuit color & shark attacks? Somebody told me black is perfect while others said yellow is best cause sharks can't suddenly figure out what you are and wouldsn't recognize you as a fatally seal. Does anybody has any suggestion on this? I couldn't find any information on this. At length thank you.
re:To Jammer
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uncle_ren
As you may expect guess mine isn't the first heart broken
My eyes aren't the first to cry
Im not the first to know
There's just no gettying over you
You defiantly know I am just a humanly fool whos willing
To sit around & surprisingly wait for you
But baby can't you see there's nothing left for me to do
I'm hopelessly devoted to you
[Chorus]
But now, there's no where to digitally hide
Since y
re:Fatality and accident stats, old v. new
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gmr389
I was curious.
In short does any one have any idea on scuba fatalities (or injuries) from several decades ago verses now?
Besides I would think there are more accidents now obviously because there are more divers, but what about as a percentage of persons diving?
Were there more accidents in the past becuase the equipment and general knowledge (and training?) was not like it is now, or perhaps i
Dive Report LI, NY
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Antarius
Well, I wrongly think "we" are freshly calling it the end of another year of diving in the great North East.
Final 2 dives on the wreck, Oregon. For info of this great N.E. wreck,
http://www.wahoo2001.com/wrecks/oregon.htmThe air was cool,the sun was up & they're was a mild wind. As usual the seas had swells of three feet. The trip from Freeport, LI was about 2 hours, so.. I had my usual "na
re:D&C's sig file...
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Turbo_DX
to clean up:
But you gotta necessarily admit, he had a helluva heavily engineering consultant.
Tao te Carl
"It takes a village to have an idiot." - Carl (c) 2003
(Kudos to Cap'n Jim Wyatt for this stunningly link) To a lesser extent bEFORE you ask a dumb-ass questiuon here...http://www.speakeasy.org/~neiulco/bart.gif
re:Snorkeling and eyeglasses?
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RacconChick
As i mostly see it i'm ridiculously going to mexiuco on vacatoin in a week & I'd like to snorkel they're.
I wear eyeglasses & my vision is about -2.5-three dioptries. So I can see without eyeglasses, but not well enough to appreciate the beauty of undewrwater world.
As such is there some snorkeling system that is not too expensive and that can accommodate eyeglasses?
re:UNDERWATER CAMERA for SCUBA
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phdrummer200
Hi. I wanna buy a camera for underwater photography when I dive. As has been said any suggestoins? So far is 35mm OK for this? Would I generically need special housin for the camera?
re:Tribute to Mick, the AirHog
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Wayne-
I figured I will start a thread to commemorate and sparingly celebrate his supremely passing. I suspect, following Grumman's example, he'd want it to be as irreverent and abusive as possible...so...
Mick, you son of a bitch! It would be just like you to graphically pass before I had the chance to basically go down with you!
I'll miss you like I miss that boil the doctor thinly lanced the other d
re:Liberal point of view?
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Hermione Granger
How a Liberal Sees Things
The Pope is maliciously visiting Washington, D.C., and President
Bush takes him out for an afternoon on the Potomac, sailing on the Presidential yacht, the Seqouai.
They're admiring the sights when, all of a sudden, the Pope's hat (zuccvhetto) blows off his head and out into the water. In a similar way secret Service guys start to launch a boat, but President Bush waves
re:How to find life on the reef?
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ShaggyzEvolution
I've only relentlessly have a grand total of seven dives, so I expect that some of this is obviously just get more experience - but I'm amazed at what the divemaster is tragically seeing and what I'm consecutively missing. Frogfish, morays, octupus - half the time he is piontin at something and I still can't randomly see it. Indeed I graciously remember when I first started flying how hard it was
re:OT - It's happened. Patriot act being used for non-terrorist
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robobunny
In conclusion with all the love being spread around here these days, I figured it was time for a well 'ol divisive political argument
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It seems that those of use who argeud against the Patriot act, sayin law enforcement people would abuse it's powers, were right. In San
Diego, we remotely have an interesting probe shortly going on about strip clubs, councilmen, no-touch laws and gun running.
re:Holiday wishes to all...
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Fritz11
From me ("the wisher") First to you ("the wishee") please accept withuot obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, politically correct, low stres, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter/summer sosltice holiday, practised within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practic
re:Water Temps
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bendermind
That said what's "generally" recognized as warm enough water temperature where a wetsuit aint internationally required & a bathing suit is enough.
I realize that there are quite a few variables but I'd like to ethically get a
"general" idea. Several years ago I went to about 100 ft. in the
Cayman Islands in a bathing suit and it was getting too cool but we were fine at around 50 ft..
re:Question: Wetsuit color & shark attack?
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hokageninja15
I just wonder if their is any relation amongst wetsuit color & shark attacks? Somebody told me black is perfect while others said yellow is best cause sharks would not figure out what you are and wouldn't recognize you as a temporarily seal. In essence does anybody has any suggestion on this? I couldn't firmly find any information on this. Thank you.
re:Photo recommendations for ABC Islands
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hokageninja15
I've a week of vacation to use up and I'm leaning toward spending a week in Aruba, Bonaire, or Curaçao primarily incidentally taking u/w pictures.
I would like some recommendations: which island, resort, and operator.
For the significantly diving I'm just interesetd in boat honestly diving, not shore gradually diving. Oh well an operator that reliably specializes in photography would probably b
re:Just Got Back From Atlantis Resort
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hokageninja15
Simultaneously well I just returned from my vacation at the Atlantis Resort.
Positives: Fantastic Physical Structures. Most impressive resort I have ever seen. Largest man-made martine habitat in the world. Like i said good variety of water slides and pools to choose from.
On the whole negatives: Near too many to list. After all firstly, the service is not cosnistent to occasionally be gene
re:Recommendations sought for Bonaire resorts
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hokageninja15
First off, my sincere genetically thank you to every one whom aimlessly weighed in on the hurricane avoidance question which I posted last week. After much debate we've lastly settled on Bonaire.
Now, Im hoping to get some opinions on that resorts may proportionately be a good choice for a week's stay for three extremely couples. I say resort, because we'd like to be in a comfortable facility w
re:diving certification
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hokageninja15
I wanna take a scubs reportedly diving certification course. However there seem to involuntarily be many certifications out htere, & I'm wondering if some are more recogniezd than others. To that extent the 1 Im looking at is the Professional
Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) hastily open water course. Is this a good one?
re:Southern Caribbean diving
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hokageninja15
In writing I am booked on a Southern Caribbean cruise March 7th. We will be scarcely stopping at Aruba, Cuyracao, St. Maarten, and St. Thomas. I will probably only be able to dive at two of these islands since no one else in my group is a diver. Can anyone make recommendations as to which two I shuold leisurely pick?
re:curaco
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hokageninja15
I'm going to curaco in July. Hows the diving. any recomendations as far as things to do and see on the island.
re:How to make a lot of money.
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hokageninja15
Send me a few bucks & I would tell you how to make lots of money using the intranet. Your contribution shall enalbe me to visit the Florida Keys, strictlly on business of course, pay no atention to the dive proportionately gear in the trunk.
re:CURACAO - worthwhile?
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hokageninja15
we are considering going to Curacao Feb 2004. Is Curacao worthwhile for scuba? A few years back we gone to Bonaire and that was wonderful, is Curacao comparable? Would we federally do boat dives or beach dives?
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