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  1. Phaethon

    Quote of the day

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    GC Feed the Fish ??

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  3. Phaethon

    I wanna be a knight!

    Hmmm.... methinks we have a Rosicrucian in our midst, egad! Hey Jonnythan, what's so interesting about Troy, NY that Brad Pitt made a movie about it? K.
  4. Phaethon

    Coke Alert! Women in Mexico

    This is rather insulting to Mexicans who, despite having the death penalty in their statutes, have not judicially murdered anyone since 1937. I would suggest the joke would be more credible if it were set in somewhere like Texas or Florida. K.
  5. Phaethon

    Why would you want to dump weight?

    Mania's right, but I also think that the word 'rapid' used in describing the weight dumping is a simplification or abbreviation if you like. If you get into a situation where weight dumping is really your only option, the process needs to be as simple as possible - a single tug on a particular...
  6. Phaethon

    Check Out The Shark Feeding Dive!

    ...but not necessarily in the same order. =8^) (adapted from the Eric Morecambe joke) K.
  7. Phaethon

    da submarine suit

    Is this what you saw? K.
  8. Phaethon

    AOW with ProDive, FLL

    Cool, have fun. Half hour parking in front of the Tap Room, public parking across the street ($1/hr? - I walked from the hotel.) And nobody noticed I only did 4 specialties on my AOW - shame on you! (Drift Dive added to original post). K.
  9. Phaethon

    What Does PADI 5 Star Really Mean?

    You can get to the PADI definitons by: 1) Go to Dive Centre Search page (http://www.padi.com/english/common/search/dcnr/ 2)Choose United States (for example) 3) Next page pick a popular diving state like Florida and click search, no ther inputs) 4) You'll get a list of all Florida...
  10. Phaethon

    What Does PADI 5 Star Really Mean?

    I had been wondering the exact same thing, never having seen a 1 to 4 star centre. The PADI site is almost inpenetrable for us mere mortals, perhaps PADI Pro's get some priviliged access... If you google you can find a definition of a 5-star centre...
  11. Phaethon

    AOW with ProDive, FLL

    I'm not great at judging vis. The consensus was that it was around 10m at worst on the 'rough' days either end of the trip (~1.5m waves, 20 APR, 30 APR) and reached 15-20m on the nice quiet days around the middle (<1m waves, 21-25 APR). My Mossie rated air temperatures 26-33C in this time and...
  12. Phaethon

    Putting on wet suit

    SAFETY ALERT! DO NOT use this method to put your hood on =8^O K.
  13. Phaethon

    AOW with ProDive, FLL

    Well, it's not that I didn't learn much, and Shannon did work hard, but I wasn't drilled repeatedly in the manner I'm perhaps used to and so long as both you and the instructer make it back to shore in one piece, you're pretty much going to pass ;^) The point is that the Advanced tag isn't...
  14. Phaethon

    TSA Locks

    I wonder how people who take nitroglycerine for angina even get near an airport..? K.
  15. Phaethon

    OUCH, $600 Dive camera LOST - Better Securement Methods?

    How about a length of stainless steel chain as a tether (cuttable loops to wrist/BCD/housing) - that wouldn't float into shot (unless you were upside down). Just a thought... K.
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