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    Hi from New Zealand

    I have been diving for nearly five years now and as I live by the sea and own my own boat am fortunate enough to have logged close on 300 sea dives since starting back in December 1998.

    I still get a great buzz from diving and have just come back from diving wrecks in the Solomon Islands (2nd year running).

    I am particularly fascinatesd in the USS Aaron Ward (DD-483) which I believe is the only diveable destroyer in the Pacific. She sits upright on sand at 70 metres (yes that is metres) and I have now dived her 7 times on compressed air.

    With a bit of encouragement I would be happy to start a thread on this subject in the Wreck forum if anyone is interested as there are lots of issues to be dealt with when planning and executing dives at this depth.. and I would be happy to share what I have learnt. I believe I am one of about only 250 divers who have dived this wreck, discovered by New Zealanders in 1994.

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    Howdy there!

    Welcome to Scuba Board - a fun place to compare, argue, etc. :hi:

    I've love to read about your adventures, including your 200+ fsw dives (you understand most of us are U.S. and highly illiterate in metric? ) but those particular reports might fit better in Tech Forum. Look around, and see what you think.

    Either way, I'll look forward to your input.

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    Thumbs up Welcome Kapiti Diver

    To the scuba board!
    Glad you swam in.
    I also would like to read about your adventure's. The first thing I think of is your time on the bottom must be short ? did you use double's. and what was your deco stops like. Mike

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    Welcome aboard...

    It is a good thing that we can dive after the All Blacks went down in the semis, otherwise I would still be crying.. ;-0

    Cheers Big Ears,
    The Thunder from Down Under,
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    Dumb question I suspect!

    What is the purpose of subscribing to a thread? I cant find any faq to explain this...
    its not far down but its a hell of a long way up!

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