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Thal: Take a look at the Aqualung Nautilus Travel Snorkle. The tube diameter is quite large and the design is very simple. It reminds me of a soft, flexible version of the Subapro snorkle I started out with 25 years ago. After trying mine, I quite using anything else. Aqua Lung Sport

It is most unfortunate that the internet provides an easy way to post your inner most feelings and emotional outbursts and removes all ability to share the non-verbal cues most of us take for granted. We cannot use body language, tone, facial gestures or context (as in conversational context) to...

Hmmm... of course you realize that "vulgar" comes from latin, vulgaris, meaning "of or pertaining to the common people, common, vulgar".

Uhmmm...Krill? And, yes, I'm a skeptic, too.

Yep. They're great for shore diving. Not mucj use for boat diving.

I second much of the advice already given. As far as the ÅÆither/or? why not both©Æventually. I often dive solo and carry both. But, then, IÃÎ a belt AND suspenders kind of guy. :dork2: When I first started diving in the early ?0ÃÔ, octos werenÃÕ in wide use (if at all). We learned sharing...

From my own experience, the logbook serves three real functions, in order of importance: 1) record of diving conditions and results. This allows me to kept track of what gear I used under what conditions and how it worked for me. 2) record of memories. This allows me to keep track of...

And then, of course, there are those who say that there is no such thing as gravity; the earth just sucks.

I’ll be moving up to a small one bedroom apartment until we can get things squared away in Temecula and get the house ready to rent. The apartment is on Valejo, about 5 miles from the office. Although I can stick it out in almost anywhere for a bit, I hope it’s not a dump…I found the place and...

Timely thread! Thanks for the info! Due to the economy, I've closed my private practice as a land surveyor and taken a position as Director of surveying with a firm in Roseville. I'm moving up tomorrow. I've always wanted to dive in Lake Tahoe. Monterey and Point Lobos have help a...

The fin width would be a nice place to catch kelp underwater---the nemesis of ab divers. Californian divers are not allowed to use anything but a gloved hand to catch lobsters and that requires being able to adjust positioni the water. Hmmm....market seems to be getting very limited...

Forgive me, but why not?

You know, these questiosn about being able to breath on an inflator/secondary are logical questions for those of us who have not used such a device. We are used to holding the inflator head above us and well away from our mouths when we dump air during our ascent. Based on our own experience...

Deb: I agree that threads such as this and the DAN reports are a start. However, we do not have much "official" data to work from in threads such as this. We rarely get anything results of any forensic testing. We rarely get copies of Coroner's reports. The "analysis" we do is speculation...

While I’m sure that the dive shop DID check for C-Cards when renting the tanks and regs, there is no requirement to check logs or conduct interviews to determine actual experience. Checking C-Cards is a standard of practice; checking logs and conducting interviews is not. The C-Card implies...

As others have said, this is a real tragedy and my heart goes out to the son and the diver’s family. Just as a matter of clarification for those who haven’t dived at La Jolla Shores, this is a great training area for new divers. During the summer months, literally hundreds of...

Catalina may not be tropical in the sense of warm water, but the diving, in my opinion, is much more interesting with teeming sealife and a lot to see. Loreto would be a great place, but there ain't much to do topside except sunning and reading. I recommend the Inn at Loreto Bay...third world...

If you didn't have a problem last time, you probably won't this time, either. When were you here last? Newport Road to Dominegoni Parkway hasn't been open all that long.

Calles, are you talking about going over 79 North (taking Winchester Road north from Temecula or are you talking about taking 79 South from the south end of Temecula through Anza and then down the winndy hill to the south end of Palm Desert and then on to Palm Springs? If the former, the...

You might want to consider that you are wrong and not willing to learn something from someone with much more experience and knowledge than you. GPS equipment is not considered as a "compass" by anyone who uses it. The cellestial sphere is not considered a compass by anyone who uses it...