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  1. Florabama

    Post your Boast! (Pics of your catch)

    Thanks guys! Yeah, we had a big fish fry last Saturday night and fed about a dozen people and still had plenty of fish left to put in the freezer for another day.
  2. Florabama

    Post your Boast! (Pics of your catch)

    Got out with some friends for my first dive of the year last Wednesday and ended up with my personal best grouper ever. Here are some pics. My buddies nice trigger My groupie Back at the dock with mine and my buddy Mike's groupers Total haul -- wish we could have gotten...
  3. Florabama

    Free air for life?

    Roger that! I should have known. My dad was a retired Marine Master Sergeant (E8). I guess I heard "Chief" bandied about and didn't think it through.
  4. Florabama

    Free air for life?

    Thanks for the correction. I know for a fact, he was a Marine lifer, so what would the equivalent be? I've heard the term Chief bandied around, so I assumed he was a Master Chief.
  5. Florabama

    Free air for life?

    I would have to disagree with your assessement. Air fills are a lost leader for most dive shops. Just the stainless, high pressure tubing to run the air from the compressor to the banks is about $3 a foot. At our shop, we have four banks with about 600 feet of high pressure tubing each. The...
  6. Florabama

    What tanks for Doubles? 100s or bigger?

    To get back to the OP, personally, I don't think there's one tank that's right for all occasions. Over the years I've collected sets of LP 72s, 95s. 108s, 131s, several AL 80s, as well as a 63, and have access to many others. I pick one or the other based on the dive plan. If I had to pick...
  7. Florabama

    Preferred finish

    Shot blast or brushed is fine -- just don't buy a painted tank -- either steel or aluminum. When I'm VIPing a shot blast, I find VIP stickers stick just fine if you wait until the tank is filling on the whips and is a little warm, then stick it on there. I put them on all the time and don't have...
  8. Florabama

    New dive boat biz in the Keys

    I love your philosophy, and I hope you can keep it without becoming cynical over time. Having been around dive charter boats quite a long time, it's usually what's get lost first as captains have to deal with inexperienced divers. I can't tell you how many captains and crews that I've seen who...
  9. Florabama

    Free air for life?

    It sounds like a great deal to me, but I'm not a fan of HP tanks myself. They take a long time to fill and some shops can't fill them to their working pressures at all. At our shop, we fill them to 3 grand, then take them off the whips and let them cool before topping off to 3500, and that takes...
  10. Florabama

    Nitrox Class Tuesday Evening MBT Divers in Pensacola

    I have a nitrox class scheduled for this Tuesday evening at 6 pm at MBT Divers. I'm not comfortable promoting something unless I truly believe in it and use it myself. I truly believe every diver -- without exception -- should be a Nitrox diver. I am a committed Nitrox diver. In fact, I am...
  11. Florabama

    Dive Report: Ft. Pickens Pensacola 24 May 2009

    Thanks for the report and the heads up about the rangers. I'll definitely be taking students there in the future. I made the mistake of going to Vortex yesterday instead of Pickens. It stormed the whole way there and until about noon. The spring filled up with run-off and viz dropped to three...
  12. Florabama

    Ft. Pickens Road Opens Friday, May 22!!!!

    Did anyone get out to Pickens Friday or Saturday? I was going to try to take a class there on Saturday, but elected to go to Vortex instead due to weather. If anyone has a report, please post it.
  13. Florabama

    Cave Trip 5-14 thru 5-17-9 Dive Reports

    Great read, bug. Enjoyed it very much.
  14. Florabama

    Just Conversation

    You know why God created man before woman, don't you? He created man first because he didn't want someone standing over His shoulder telling him how to do it right. :D
  15. Florabama

    Memorial Day Weekend?

    I'll be finishing up some open water students in Pensacola and you're welcome to come down and dive with the class. Depending on the weather, we'll be at either Vortex, Navarre Pier or Fort Pickens (if the road's open by then).
  16. Florabama

    Used Alum 80s filled with Nitrox

    Take a nitrox course and dive them. Don't know about your area, but at our shop, it's only $99 bucks and takes one evening. While I'm not a C-card nasi, the only problem with learning on your own is that most shops still wouldn't give you fills without a card even if you demonstrate...
  17. Florabama

    Free Spearfishing Seminar at MBT Divers

    It was good to see you Friday night. I'm almost recovered from Denise's going away party at Kooter's.
  18. Florabama

    Just Conversation

    Yeah, if you remember, that whole event got Monica a job as a Jenny Craig spokesperson, but she was cancelled when they realized the reason she lost weight was not because of Jenny Craig, but because she doesn't swallow. Sorry, couldn't resist.
  19. Florabama

    Free Spearfishing Seminar

    If you're in the Pensacola area, MBT Divers is having a free party otherwise known as a spearfishing seminar. When I tell my wife I'm going to a "seminar" instead of a party, it seems to work better. :) Unfortunately it is BYOB:depressed: More than 80 local divers showed up last time. Dalton...
  20. Florabama

    Free Spearfishing Seminar at MBT Divers

    If you're in the neighborhood tomorrow night, MBT Divers in Pensacola is having a party otherwise known as a free spearfishing seminar. More than 80 people showed up last time, but it's BYOB. When I tell my wife I'm going to a seminar instead of a party, it seems to work better. :) Dalton...
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