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Pipehorse, what a great report! You were so thorough in your assessment of everything topside and below that I felt like I had been on the trip with you. Oh wait. I was on the trip with you. But your report was so good, I couldn't add a single observation. You picked excellent photos that were...

So here's the scenario. I am shore diving and coming back into shore. The waves are quite small. I have taken off my fins and am walking in sideways. The oncoming wave is way bigger than the previous ones and I think I'm likely to get knocked down. Unfortunately running to shore is not an...

Can I depend on the measurements given in a Mares chart or should I order a size with bigger measurements than my own? I'm specifically looking at wetsuits.

There's a lot of hype out there by the new Mares suit made with graphene, apparently the first scuba suit made from the Nobel prize winning material. There are surfing suits made from the material, but not many reviews of them and no reviews of the Mares suit. Has anyone worn this suit toted to...

Thank you, Bigbella for replying. Someone at REEF Facebook says the ribbon thingee is a nemertean, a worm, and told me the name of the chiton, a stenoplax conspicua. Amazing what you can find and learn from the sea and those who venture into it.

Two things I've never seen before. Both were spotted around 10 feet near the shore-side of the pipe at San Carlos that points to the metridium fields.The first is a weight-belt sized creature. It had bright yellow margins both sides. Buddy thought it was dead, but I thought it was burrowing...

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Can anyone use my reservation for tomorrow? Conditions look great on forecast but I can't go. Can't clear my ears.

Well thanks for the replies. I should've clarified that my mask does not leak without hair or sunscreen in the mix.

Okay Ladies, I know I can't be the only one with this problem, but I can't find any threads addressing one of things I hate most about diving: the infamous, annoying leaking mask. Yeah, sometimes it's hair but more often it's sunscreen or moisturizer causing the problem. I know people say put...

Ah, c'mon gang. We aren't letting this thread die, are we? Conditions for Monterey look great for this weekend. Somebody's gotta be going tomorrow or Sunday. Alas, not me. I went last weekend despite the questionable forecast. One look at McAbee told me I was going to enjoy the water from...

Sam, I doubt Jim was at the SLO event. As far as I know the only Southern CA diving he did was a few Channel Island dives. Your story is more poignant than mine. Fifty years is a long time to have shared so much with one person who wasn't even your spouse and to have lost Ron on your birthday...

Well said! Now it's up to carry on the legacies of those who taught us.

Thank you, flyboy08 and lv2dive! Your comments made me smile.

Ryan T, thanks for sharing your story! I wanted to give up diving too, but I didn't because I knew Jim would not have wanted me to. Kudos to you for coming back to diving. I am sure Ray would've wanted that. Happy diving!

Thank you COB. Your quick and sympathetic reply touched my heart. I have to beg to differ with you though, and please don't consider me rude. We may not think of them by name but the people who touched our lives are never forgotten. They have become the part of the fabric of our lives.

Jim's been gone for 7 years today. I still really miss him. I wish I could write this without bumping the thread. I just wanted to write something.

My SmartCom has died for real...even Scubapro won't revive it. Are the parts useful to anyone? If not, I'm going to bust out the compass and pretend it's not all I have left of a fairly expensive toy.

Thank you all for writing on this post. I was hoping to be in Miami and then diving in the Keys in a couple of days. I was on the fence for a long time and read all your posts with great hope and lots of good wishes for you who were hit by Irma in a more personal and dramatic way than I was. I...

Still looking for a buddy....