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Nothing here has even made me chuckle, I don't think anything in this thread is punny.

Nice coincidence! It was very nice meeting you as well, it was only my second boat dive and my wife's first. Hope to see you again on another dive. "Raposa" in my user name is just "Fox" in Portuguese by the way. All the best, Fox

Thanks for the note Rob, I am sure your skills have zoomed far ahead of ours considering your dedication and efforts. We still love it to though. I think the dry suit would be a good change, especially for my wife. At least we have warm two-piece suits that we got custom fit. We ended up...

Thanks as usual for the suggestions from everyone! I'll let you know what we decide and I'll post a report when we return. p.s. I hope you've been doing well Robert Phillips, last I remember you had just gone through your DIR-F class (I've been away from this site a little bit). We have...

Hello! My wife and I are celebrating our two year anniversary and decided we want to have a 2 day dive vacation to celebrate. We though about Catalina but it is all booked. We'll be starting our trip from Los Angeles but we really we can drive anywhere between there and the San Francisco Bay...

Hello all, I may end up moving from California to Atlanta for work eventually and am concerned about the possible demise of my scuba diving life. What do divers in Atlanta do? What are the nearest sites and how often do you go? I am guessing it's Florida and an airplane ride away...

Swim out about 10 feet at La Jolla Cove in San Diego and you'll see some! You don't even need scuba equipment.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4288772.stm It lost a tentacle in the struggle. Do they grow back? Is this like a lizard losing a tale or is the creature permanantly crippled?

You beat me to the punch with *exactly* what I was going to write with that line above (and you are the first responder)! My meaning was not a commentary on the consideration given to animals, however, but about the profound negligence displayed in the disaster response. [Of course in an...

Quite true, and if you happen to ever visit the Monterey area for diving then avoid a guy named "Fred S." He passes out a business card that just says "Dive Buddy" on it (in between the leering, etc.). (Oh, and on the original topic. I just dive with my wife. I'm not into macho aggressive...

That fish is so big you look like you had to close your eyes and meditate on it.

Post dive headache is often realated to dehydration? I've had that a couple of times but didn't really have anything to attribute it to.

I know someone who had a totally dry snorkel. It was ok and did stay dry, but the apparatus at the top obstructed air flow a bit and breathing was harder than a regular snorkel. So it did work, but check to see how you feel about the airflow. A simple purge snorkel with no dry/splash stuff...

Well this is the SoCal section of the California Kelp Divers forum... ;) Anyway, you can go out to Catalina Island or drive down to San Diego (2 hours) for some nice diving on occasion too. In San Diego (I used to live there) you can shore dive and boat dive. There are some wrecks down...

Thanks for the heads up about his vacation.

We did buddy with him once before though (before we knew!) and it was uneventful. In a way I feel bad, maybe he just needs friends. But in another way there are more constructive behaviors to make friends than watching people for a long time without saying anything.

The idea about contacting Chris at this point only came about later as I looked into my options. I started out the thread genuinely to get opinions about whether it really was typical and accepted to have to do a little work on a new BP before diving it. Kraken, FredT, and others knew...

My second dive without an instructor was a night dive. It was on the weekend I got engaged. My (now) wife and I had gone away for a "diving" weekend, though I had other plans. We dove at Monterey's Breakwater Cove. We rented flashlights, one large and one small. The batteries ran out on the...

WB461, you don't sound harsh, I welcome your opinion. Thanks for responding! You may not have read the entire thread though. I called the thread "expectations in a backplate" and started it to ask exactly what I should have expected in the new backplate. So no, I don't think it is the...

You know, I heard about COVCI from this board and people said he is a good guy. The webbing was getting eaten after only 3 dives and she only has about 12 dives on it. I am going to first give it one more try and have her explain the situation to him to see what he'll do about it. The sad...