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Amy was a wonderful woman - kindhearted, smart, funny, passionate about her family and diving. I know I am not alone in saying that I will miss her deeply.

Wow....hey y'all thanks for all of the great advice and insight. First off, let me say that this is not a rush goal and put all your minds at ease. I am imagining that this will take me years to get the experience and training needed before "I" feel comfortable making a dive like that. I am...

Hey y'all! I am AOW and would like to get into technical diving. My goal: dive the Doria. So aside from needing to get certified in pentration diving, dry suit diving, tri mix, and stress and rescue, what else should I do? What's the best type of equipment/configuration to get? I'd rather...

I just dove Morehead, NC recently and during the briefing the DM said the currents were "somewhat" strong...somewhat my left foot! This area (which I had dove several times before) is not known for strong currents. It was all I could do to get down to the anchor line without being swept out to...

29...until december roles around :) Is there anything I should do before I make my grand exit from my 20's?

This past weekend I was doing semi-solo lobster dives off of NC. One of the other divers lost her weight belt while trying to help another diver get a lobster into a game bag. She grabbed the other diver and tried to tell him to go down (which of course he didn't have enough weight to get them...

Thanks for the great info! I have seen the BP/Wings but had heard that they were difficult to use. That sometimes they don't inflate evenly and you roll underwater. Is this an issue? Also, all the ones I have seen use a crotch strap which looks kind of uncomfortable. What I clip to my...

Hey guys! Just wanted to share my weekend. This past weekend I went to Carolina Beach (just south of Wilmington, NC) to go on my first lobster dive. We stayed in a cottage called Seaduced which was right on the canal side so we literally stepped out the back door and onto the dock which was...

Let's see...hidden talents I can roll my tongue, tie cherry stems into knots and take the wrappers off of starbursts. Hey with a mouth as big as mine you have to make it useful! I ballroom dance...used to compete until my partner moved away. I am published in a barely circulated book...

Hey ladies! I have a jacket style BC which was inexpensive (bought it off a friend) and does the job. But, there are a lot of things about it I don't like. It only has a velcro cumberbund across the front, no tank loop, it's not weight integrated, and it doesnt' have enough D rings for all of...

I think it's a great idea! And even though we need to be careful about posting too much personal stuff, I have to say that having met several divers off of this board on dive trips, there are a lot of great people out there! Bob3, I couldn't view your link you posted. Said I needed to be...

Ummm....why isn't Virginia included??;-0

Yoga is fantastic! I started practicing ashtanga/power yoga a couple of years ago. It's a great workout (better than weights I think), does wonders for flexibility and yes, definitely improves my air consumption. I almost always come up with more air than my dive buddies, even when they are...

I've dove with Olympus, Diver Down, and Discovery and prefer DIver Down first, Olympus second, and Discovery third. They're all good, Diver Down is more personable and a smaller boat. Olympus is good, but a little impersonal. Have a great time!

What's a dyscrasias?

Hmmm...I have found two masks, a ton of lead weights which I give to my friends who actually fish, one porcelain button from the civil war and a set of car keys...which I returned to the owner. That's about it...guess I find kind of boring normal stuff!

Hey guys, wanted to ask a quick question. I dove this weekend and after the second dive I felt a bit lightheaded and dizzy (not seasick though) for about 10 or 15 minutes afer surfacing. Had a good long hang time, longer than required because there were some cool ramoras swimming around. The...

Hey guys, thanks for the concern and the advice. When I had my episode of rather severe bruising last year, I went to the doctor and they couldn't find anything wrong with me (at least not with whatever blood tests they ran). They did say that I have low iron and low numbers of white blood...

AB/MC is Atlantic Beach/Morehead City in North Carolina...sorry I guess I get a little too used to acronyms at work! ;)