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Some of you folks have very impressive webpages. Any of you Web wizs have any suggestions for software to design a modest scuba and biz webpage on a budget? (I'm too lazy to learn HTML). Lessons learned along the rocky road of webdom? I am loathed to put my destiny in the hands of my 16...

Ok, "attack" maybe isn't the best verb but it got your attention, got mine too. So I'm snoozing in front of the tele last night and a scuba story comes on. "Diver attacked by Giant Pacific Octopus" and lives to tell the tale. It was a story on the Discover channel featuring other death...

Yeah, I suppose this belongs under Non-Scuba stuff but you do have to do something else when you're not blowing bubbles right? Ok, Arnie had his Army what does Mike have? Mike's Minnions? Weir's Warriors? For those that slept through the weekend, a soft spoken, spunky little Canuck...

GTA fans of Burleigh Falls take heart: my buddy & I shovel out an 8 foot snow drift just to be able to trudge into the parking lot this past week. You have to park on the side road as the graders have done their magic and built a castle of snow at the parking lot entry. Like a little...

(a) This is the first time I've had fins with no drain holes in the footpocket. Haven't notice it to be a real problem so far but was curious: How many of you put holes to assist draining your jetfins? Do you drill or use a soldering tool to acheive this? A couple of holes in the...

Before all you simpering homo sapiens start spitting silly smilies please consider the incipient damage that these insidious creatures pose to human discourse. {Sigh} I believe the end is near Cato, Plato, Aristotle, Oscar...the ability to draw forth emotion & the foibles of man with but the...

Is there any value to using a Jon-line for safety stop hangs when in flag pole mode on a St Lawrence wreck? I haven't used one before and it seems an easy piece of kit to make.... I can imagine that it makes it easier for divers to get by you on a busy line and you might even be able to...

I do aerobic, upper and lower body free/fixed weight training in preparation for Skiing, Golfing and Triathlons but am unaware of any recommended guidelines for weight resistance training to assist a recreational diver to improve performance and prevent injury above/below water. Despite...

Does anyone use crab claws instead of brass bolt snaps for gear attachment. Pros and cons? What is it? Look at bottom of this list of accessories http://www.cetaceacorp.com/scuba/action/gearclips.html

Every dive is a new experience...case in point is a few weeks ago my buddy of many gadgets shows off his brand new yellow 30 CF pony bottle and pretty new reg. Before the dive, he energizes it to show how wonderful it would be to use in an OOA and out spews a pint of white sludge from the...

You've heard of the front, back, roll, stride scuba entries ... I think my buddy has invented a new one. Imagine a pastoral winter scene with three feet of snow, rocks, some ice, and fast running river water. Last Saturday, our dear Burleigh Falls normal entry has a little thin ice in it so...

I want to dive with Greg! Ok, time for some dreaming folks. If you had, say $33 Million US for a boat, Aussie Rules, wouldn't be a bad choice: http://www.dockwalk.com/issues/2002/october/aussierules1.shtml Greg Norman has raised the standard, time for Tiger to respond - he is cave...

Attended SOS (Save Our Shipwrecks) Toronto Chapter meeting last night. SOS Ontario has secured a grant for ~ 50 Coast Guard approved Buoy's & rigging etc. for Ontario wreck dive sites. SOS chapters across Ontario are submitting proposals for locations. Initial ones proposed by Toronto chapter...

I need some help. Here's the scenario. My buddy and I are climbing out of a shore dive a couple of weeks ago - snow & ice setting in -and a couple wander up timidly to inquire what we're doing. Recreational diving was obviously not what they thought was happening and we looked like serious...

Being an old sober dinosaur, I guess I get nervous that other contributors will be added to the lost/wounded in action diver category because of the pervasive advertising and social acceptance of alcohol in our sporting pre-/ post- activities. There is an undercurrent of cavalier "laugh at...

I would be interested in some MDs comments on the following study - anything new here or more inconclusive findings? Borrowed from http://www.scubaclicks.com/forum/showflat.php?Board=news&Number=1634 Pre-Dive Medications May Put Scuba Divers at Risk 11/27/02 03:05 PM...

Diver Propulsion Vehicles (DPV) are not an item that many of us get a chance to play with. My basic question is what lessons have been learned and procedures adopted by what I see as the two typical users: 1) Tool people - yes the Teck crowd that use them all the time in caves and deep dark...

Dr. Ron Linden, MD CCFP, diving and hyperbaric med specialist at Toronto General Hyperbaric dept. gave the above presentation which included some key info. for Ontario divers at a Nov 2 meeting. He mentioned he will try and put the presentation on-line. I believe he called this his eight...

Burleigh Falls north of Peterborough: Algae has died down and the current has picked up. Makes entry and return a little more exciting but at least you can see now. Viz is about 20 feet, water temp. is 46 degrees. My buddy and I took care of the branch of death that has been hanging over...