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First off I want to thank everybody for responding to my post! I've learned some new prespectives, and that's always a good thing. My initial point is that the money part has gotten out of hand. It seems that the diving industry is being a bit hypocritical were and when they draw the line...

First off, before you rip into me, as you WILL do, try to be honest for a moment. Please tell me why a C-card is necessary. Diving is not that difficult, nor is the physiology, or the high school physics. It seems, to me, that the driving force behind the C-card is the greed and avarice...

Wow, that's more than fair! Execelent! Please keep me informed. I would be glad to either eat my words, or carry on the struggle. Thanks for being open minded. Warren

Why don't you try to get on a dive charter without paying the $10, and report back how long it took for you to be thrown overboard at the dock. See if anyone will take you out to the SG without paying. Then publish the names of those that will. Betcha no one wants their boat scuttled...

This is the attitude I expect from "sheeple". No one cares, nobody wants to upset the cart, no one wants to get involved. Everyone is too busy looking out for #1. "Hey, too bad some stupid turtles die, I need those plastic rings so I can carry my beers." Just maintain the status quo and do...

The only part of your post that I agree with is "that misrepresentation is morally wrong". To wit I refer you to these excerpts. From Florida Scuba News V19 N7 July 2002: All Divers who wish to dive on the artificial reefs in the Key Largo area must purchase a $10 plastic medallion...

WOW how some people can miss the entire meaning of my post!!! I RESENT Artificial reefs!!! Also I resent more taxes like those disguised as state lotteries. Also the $10 fee is Illegal ! Florida has no right, or law passed that would allow them to collect this fee! ie. National Waters...

Is that Doing it Right and Doing it Left? ;) Thanks Uncle Pug, I always enjoy your posts! best wishes, Warren

Hello all, I've got a few questions that have been bothering me for a while. #1: How do you feel about the FBI collecting names at dive shops? Did you know that they were going to bookstores too? Did you know George Orwell wrote a book about this? #2: In the July issue of Florida...

Back in the early '70s no one liked compensators... Later, horsecollars were cool, jackets were strange, then jackets with CO2 inflators were the thing.... Items like the Farallon Shark Dart and the ScubaPro Deco meter, snorkles with pingpong balls on top. Manufacturers want diversity...

----Rough calculations---- 100 SS 1/8" balls weigh .4 lbs so approx $11.40 per pound X34 pounds = $387.60 before adding shipping !!!!! Warren (the other one) :confused:

Ok, I read all the threads. My background is commercial diving, air hat, surface supply, ffm, that kind of stuff. I always had a bailout bottle hooked to a gas block manifold. What's the difference between a pony bottle, and twins, other than one is smaller? Now that I am old, I...

In Rhode Island, I found a rusty, barnacled steel wheelbarrrow wheel... Sold it to a local nautical antique store for $15... Dad and I were claming one day and he hands me a beer bottle from 1860...We got our picture in the town paper. :D Cheers, Warren

I realized this morning this quote looks a bit rediculous, and boastful. I never dived with these guys, but did a lot of trap and skeet shooting at the base gun club. We got talking about the best way to different U/W jobs. Cheers, Warren

Now for my $0.02 worth I started in the early '70s in Rhode Island. Sleeping on Dad's boat and hanging around the marina, I got several jobs scrubbing sail boats, replacing zinc anodes, light salvage (retreving dropped anchors and outboards), setting moorings, and selling barnacle...

This was new-news to me today. I've got ADHD, and as such, impetuous. Next time, I'll do a search, before I put my foot in my mouth. :whoa: Happy days,

This was just brought to my attention, and I wanted to share the info, please correct me if I'm inappropriate to this forum. Apeks - 9 November 2001 A number of the new ATX regulators produced in September/ October 2001, have a potentially serious defect.The problem is related to the 2nd...

No one mentioned a LDS that does both internet sales and walk in. I'm in no way affiliated with them, but they're nice people and I would like to give them a plug. Divers Supply: http://www.divers-supply.com I go to the store in Macon. There are several stores, in Fla, SC, and...

DiveInn has the knife you want, cheap too... Hopefully this link will get you there: http://www.scubastore.com/shop.asp?id_familia=1&id_subfamilia=7 Nice knife, maybe I'll get one too.... Next time try a search engine, all I did was to search "TECHNISUB" and look for a link that wasn't...

I believe I'm fairly redundant what with my ffm with two regs, and another long hose octo on a bailout bottle and spare mask. I've done ffm diving for several years, my wife teases me when I show her my old gear, saying it's older than she. I'm more comfortable with ffm especially in cold...