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Originally Posted by danvolker

As much as it pains me to have to say it, DD is correct in this thread. Great Whites have always been through our area, just not in big numbers, and not usually where people are diving.
There used to be a shark fishery managed out of Fort Pierce or Stuart.....it allowed 100,000 sharks per year, till it was closed around the 70's.... Each year about 1% of the sharks caught were Great White Sharks.
Also, Craig Suavely shot video of a GW on the Hole in the wall back around 1993...you could

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Originally Posted by shoredivr

I keep my doubles on the middle shelf of the tank cabinet you see in my avatar. I built it to the shelf height I wanted, so I just back up to the tailgate of the SUV, put the tanks on, walk over to the tank cabinet, back up to the shelf and they're done.

The singles and sidemount tanks are on the bottom shelf. It took me a couple of hours to make the cabinet out of 3/4 plywood, reinforce the middle shelf with 2x4s, and put doors on it.

Originally Posted by danvolker

There is a thread going on right now.. http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/adv...ml#post5907741
In which a girl is trying hard to figure out how she can move her twin set up around without hurting herself.

This brings to mind some real issues I have with the direction we have taken, where we are promoting the use of doubles to pretty much EVERYONE who is doing 80 and 100 foot dives or deeper.

The result of

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Originally Posted by danvolker

The trip was Thursday last week. Vis was 100 to 150 feet, the sun was intense, and there were so many turtles I did not know what to do with all of them :-)
I have video of about 10 on this one dive.

Also of note, Breakers Reef is a huge reef. It goes for miles, and encompasses several unique bottom structures and different types of marine ecosystems. This one dive was in a central part of the crown on the initial part of the dive, then moving to the inshore ledge. There is actually

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