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Moving overseas and need to sell off most of my beloved dive gear. Here's a list with asking prices: Scubapro Jet Fins (XL size). Brand new, never in the water. $50. Zeagle Scout back-inflate BC (M size). Looks almost new, not used much. $150. Mares Vector Origin jacket-style BC (XS size)...

Hi folks, I haven't been on this board for ages since I haven't been able to go diving for ages :( As part of spring cleaning I've gone through my dive gear and have some stuff my wife has convinced me I can bring myself to part with. Putting my dear gear on craigslist has a sort of...

My wife and I decided to make her second dive after her multi-year hiatus from diving; she dove the first just about 10 days ago at Ft. Pickens. We geared up and were in the water by a bit after 9:00, hoping to hit it right at high tide (supposedly at 10:00am). It may have peaked a little...

I have a medium size Scout (35# bladder) that I dive very infrequently. My wife decided she would like to try back inflate; she has a jacket BC right now. She liked the Scout but it was far too big. Rather than buy another Scout in a smaller size (she's 5 feet even and just about 100 lbs. so...

I'm going to give the Fort Pickens jetties a try this Friday morning, weather and potential petroleum pollutants allowing. I'm shooting for 8:30am, high tide at the pass is 9:36am. Anyone else interested?

I have a Luxfer Al80 made from the 6351 alloy (the one with potential SLC issues). It's out of hydro but otherwise good. I'm debating between turning it into a windchime or trying to get another 5 years of use out of it. I also have some Walter Kidde tanks that are so ugly and old that I...

I think it's been ages since I posted anything here, but I'm wondering if anyone's planning some shore dives in the panhandle area tomorrow or Monday? I live in Pensacola so Fort Pickens is the closest for me, but I have no problem driving over to Destin, the jetties are often a good dive...

Aloha folks, I need a little help/advice for an upcoming trip. Heading to the Big Island in January for a week and hoping to do quite a bit of shore diving. We're staying a few miles north of Kawaihae just off of Hwy. 270, and I'm wondering where the most convenient place will be to rent tanks...

Not that there isn't enough information here :) but a while ago I ran across some posts about other boards devoted solely to underwater photography. One of them had a lot of very good information, but I can't remember what it was called. If you can think of some other sites, please post...

...and in this photo, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi employs his transcendental meditation techniques in levitation and demonstrates the true meaning of hovering. An astonished crew look on as he effortlessly hangs motionless at "depth" performing what he calls a "meditative safety stop."

I was looking for a shop near me to try out a drysuit (by taking a course) and came across this site. Scroll to the bottom and note that they offer a Golf Ball Diver specialty. At first I thought I should post this in Humor> but I'm not sure if it's a joke! I love some of the text, though...

Ok, finally got my backplate, wings, and other associated goodies. I need to get some bolt snaps, preferably stainless steel. There are a couple of threads about this supplier which seem to indicate good quality (and nice prices). Any suggestions on which size to get for use without...

Has anyone here stayed or had experience with Divers Paradise in Bonaire? They seem to have pretty much the best deal going, from what I've found. We're thinking of going there for our first "dive vacation" around Thanksgiving. Thanks! Chris

Just opened up my copy of Newsweek yesterday and was excited to see an article about scuba. There's a copy on the web at http://www.msnbc.com/news/747849.asp?cp1=1 The different attitudes toward this attributed to the spokesmen of the two agencies mentioned are very interesting.

Anyone know more details about this? It just happened a few hours ago. http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/3183730.htm

Ok, background story: my wife and I started a NAUI open water course here in Iowa, she was unhappy with it (class was too big, atmosphere was kind of like boot camp), I just loved being underwater regardless. She quit, I didn't, though I don't plan on doing my OW dives here even now that I've...

First off, there's nothing sarcastic about this thread's subject, it really was a blast! We're finally nearing the end of our pool sessions for the basic OW class. This week we did what our instructor called a "lake simulation." Seven of fourteen students in the deep end at once, all with...

We (my wife and I) are in the process of taking a NAUI basic OW course here in Iowa, but she is having a lot of trouble with it due to our "mask fin snorkel pickup" skill she doesn't believe she can do (see my post in http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=73891#post73891 about it)...

Well, I finally made my own spring straps last weekend. I took pictures while I was making them, and posted a write-up at http://www.public.iastate.edu/~cburkart/fins/fin_index.htm My html is dismal, but hopefully everything looks ok and you can figure out how things went together. The...