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i have a Nikon Coolpix L12 and just got an underwater housing for it. There are two companies (that I know of) that make the housings: Ikelite and Fantasea. The whole set up maybe cost about $350. I can't quite remember because I bought the camera before I bought the housing...acutally I...

you can also do calf-raises if you have a set of stairs or any kind of step-up at home. Just stand so that only the ball of your feet are on the step and raise your self up and down. Try to use the fullest range of motion that you can so you get both the strength of raising yourself up and the...

The invisalign don't hurt nearly as much as standard braces. The initial tray does hurt about the same as a standard tightening session, but the sucessive trays don't hurt nearly that much. That is, as long as you follow you dentists instruction on wearing them as much as possible during the...

We had a guy with an underwater video camera that he could lower into the water to video whatever was down there (read: tons of bluegill). He wanted to see what would happen if he zip tied a hotdog to the camera. It was like watching piranha strip a cow carcass in South America. He didn't...

Another Mike... I'm assuming that snow mobile retrieval is when someone drives it across thin ice and looses it into the water. Is this a regular occurance? We don't have much of the way of bodies of water where I live, but we get the snow mobilers who end up trying to drive through wire...

Happened in Jamaica to me. I noticed the lightning flashes in the water and tried to mime them to other people...they didn't get the hint and no one had a slate. I found out later that they thought it was the flash from my camera, the one with the batteries that died 10 pictures into the dive...

I have a shoulder replacement, a pin in my right hip, and am in need of a total replacement on the left. I have a condition called avascular necrosis due to having to have been on steroids for my lupus. Basically, the steroids caused the blood vessels in the major joints to wither and die off...

I would like to do the fun aquarium diving like the kind you can do in GA with the whale sharks. I don't want to do the creepy diving with the Mekong Delta catfish like the volunteers do at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. The only way you can tell the divers are in there is by looking for...

On another note... two trailers full of bananas were stolen from a port yesterday 6abc.com: Trailers loaded with bananas stolen from port 7/03/08 They had gone by ship to get to the port... so does that mean they sealed their own fate by having been bananas on a boat? :P --Shannon

1. The banana is a lie! (some of you will get the ref.) 2. Often times respecting other's traditions/superstions/beliefs/gods/etc. will get you a whole lot farther than being an ass about them. This holds true even if the other person is being an ass about your beliefs. 3. If you have...

I'm 5'4" myself with 34DD, and I've had good and bad luck with wetsuits. It definately seems that the lower the mm on the thickness, the easier it is for being comfy and getting a good fit. Both my 3mm henderson shorty and my 3mm one-piece (can't remember the name, and I'm at work so I can't...

Best is subjective too... to some it would be cavern diving, deep diving, no-vis diving, super tons of fishies diving, etc. --Shannon (I like the last one) :P

relay games with a bowling ball. Like a baton relay on the track, but swimming with a bowling ball that is made tons lighter by being in the water, but awkward to move around because of it's shape. Then, maybe instead of passing it from hand to hand, they might have to give it a toss. --Shannon

Hello all! I am going to be participating in a 24-hour dance-a-thon (24 Hour Cancer Dance-a-thon) to raise money for cancer treatement and research at the City of Hope Hospital (City of Hope), and I need your support! The dance-a-thon is made up of teams of people who do everything on a...

If he's DIR doesn't he need a light?

I haven't been tangled, but our DM in Jamaica got himself royaly hooked on a lobster trap. He was trying to get an angel fish out of it and he, somehow, got his tank valve hooked through the mesh of the trap. I went over, tried to unhook it, but ended up having to signal him to take his BC...

Well, the friend I'm trying to drag along really wants to go to Perth to visit some friends and just be in Perth again. However, I don't know if I/we can budget the extra cost of getting to Perth vs. just going to Sydney or Cairns (where i can get the best flight prices). I know there are...

Thanks! I've heard of all those companies you named, but it's nice to have local bring them up rather than just read about them in the back of some dive mag. I just need to start writing and get this vacation planned. --Shannon

Hello, I am having problems with the search thingy so I'm just going to ask questions that I'm sure others have already. In short, I'm semi-planning (depending on my dissertation) to go to Australia in November 2008 and I want to do some diving on the Reef. #1. Is this a good time to go...

Steroids (i.e. prednisone) can also cause you to be prone to bruising. I was on a high dose for a long time for my lupus and I had some interesting ones. I had one in the exact shape of my dog's paw from where he stepped on my leg. I would also have to tell the check in nurses at the...