RonFrank
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It would be nice if there was no crime, but that is not realistic. $.75 seems the way to go! Sorry for the loss.
Be careful with your gear at Casino Pt...
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davidbaraff
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Thanks for the sympathy everyone; while I wish the suit hadn't gone, I'd have actually been way more upset if I had to miss my night dive, or any of the dives the next day. And I did learn something useful: my suit (an Aqualung SOLAFX) is really, really, toasty warm, compared with just about everything else. I understand now why they call it a "semi-dry" suit, rather than a wet suit. (Though to be honest, if you say that a suit is "semi-dry" that also implies it must be "semi-wet" which I figured doesn't have quite the marketing pizazze...)
I figure I got through about half its useful life anyway, so it's not so terrible. And I'll be back in the park in a month, ready to break in a new suit.
-- David
P.S. Though, to answer the second poster in this thread: no, never did, but now I sure I wish I had...
I figure I got through about half its useful life anyway, so it's not so terrible. And I'll be back in the park in a month, ready to break in a new suit.
-- David
P.S. Though, to answer the second poster in this thread: no, never did, but now I sure I wish I had...
Doug - aka "Dogfish"
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Hopefully karma will take care of it. That still sucks though. I've always felt okay about leaving stuff there because I figure as divers we look out for each other. Some people just live by different rules I guess. If I ever find stuff that has been misplaced or lost I will do my best to get it back to the owner and I know you would do the same. See ya around the park..........
lcollar
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Have visited the dive park at Catalina 2 dozen times or so and have never had a problem or heard of anyone having a problem with theft. Sorry to hear about your loss. The Solaflex is the warmest wetsuit I have worn to date.
Like one of the other posters has mentioned, I always felt among all those other divers, my stuff would be safe. However, for night dives, we always took up a collection and crammed all our stuff into a locker or two and took our suits back to the room or balcony to dry in the time between the last afternoon dive and the night dive. Stuffing it into a locker with the rest of our gear meant we would be squeezing back into a wet and now cold, wetsuit. Hanging it up to dry elsewhere usually meant it would be dryer and therefore a whole lot warmer to start our dive.
Like one of the other posters has mentioned, I always felt among all those other divers, my stuff would be safe. However, for night dives, we always took up a collection and crammed all our stuff into a locker or two and took our suits back to the room or balcony to dry in the time between the last afternoon dive and the night dive. Stuffing it into a locker with the rest of our gear meant we would be squeezing back into a wet and now cold, wetsuit. Hanging it up to dry elsewhere usually meant it would be dryer and therefore a whole lot warmer to start our dive.
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