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One of my favorite granddaughters is planning college visits for spring 2015. She has narrowed her interests down to biological sciences. She hasn't really identified a particular specialty. She has, however, decided that she wants to find a college/university with an active SCUBA club. What...

This news just in from about a hundred years ago - NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries has identified the remains of an early 20th century shipwreck in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to be those of the British steamship Hannah M. Bell. Information gathered by sanctuary staff...

Over the years I have built some of my own equipment, usually to take an existing idea and make something for myself. Well, now I've built and refined a scuba widget that I had never seen before. Who has good ideas about patenting a new piece of hardware? Without getting too specific, it is a...

Perfect for today's multi-taskers: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html I know I've been hoping for something like this! DC

I always wanted to see Captain Kirk being chased across the landscape on a hostile planet. He ducks behind a styrofoam rock and flips his communicator open....."Quick! Scotty!" he says breathlessly in a stage whisper..."Beam me aboard right now!" Clank. An eight-foot two-by-four lands on...

Hey, Conchospherians! I got turned loose by Dr. Woman With Sharp Knives late last week. :) She cleared me to dive again in six more weeks. Thinking about driving to Florida to visit dear ones in south Florida for Christmas and flying from MIA or FLL to Belize. Anybody seen dive shops in FL...

I got my butt kicked. Some of my Conch peeps have been wondering why I've been so quiet lately. Man, I haven't got a post in or a PM out for almost two months. Condensed version of events: I had a lump removed from under the skin on my left leg approximately 4 1/2 inches below the knee...

I need to ask members of my tribe to help me with a Florida problem. Last May we rescued a Hurricane Wilma survivor. She's a Newport 30 Mk II sailboat. We expect to have the boat on the (cold) water at Bayfield WI by August of this year. She has some fiberglass repair work coming and lots of...

It's beginning to look like I won't be getting my annual warm salt-water treatment this Christmas:shakehead But, tis the season, and I have someting for you all to share with your other forums and lists. Enjoy! http://www.bobrivers.com/audiovault/tunes/xmastunes.asp?Var=xqygf&Page=2

Last day diving here in the Keys for me......Did a 3fer with Looe Key Reef Resort, first dive a deep wreck, the Adolphus Busch. The Busch has been a 'Wreckreational' dive site for quite a while, now. It sits upright off of Ramrod Key in sand. About 30 of my closest friends,(including DandyDon...

....and so the day after Christmas we head down the chain and end up in Key West. We checked in at SubTropic and went down to Old Key West. Harpoon Harry's has been wet, up to 2 feet of flood water, three times this year. Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Wilma and Tropical Storm Alpha,( the first...

On the day before Christmas I dove the SG with Ocean Divers out of Key Largo. OD uses steel tanks on their boat Santana. 80 cf but 2400psi. Heavier tanks, same volume of air, less ballast because the tanks don't go positive buoyancy when air pressure gets low like an aluminum tank...

Here we go! Months of planning and eating rice and beans are about over. Tomorrow REAALLY early in the morning we will launch and try to keep the compass on S.E. until we get to the Keys. We'll be at the Ragged Edge in Islamorada 12/23-12/28. We'll try to hook up with DandyDon and the...

Islamorada-me and jesmugsy-Dec 23-28. Who else is in the neighborhood then? I know this may seem like actual planning, but I prefer to think of it as synchronizing activities with calendar. Post reply or PM me. DC

Hey. New to this board, even though I've been reading it since it went up. Flipping through my logbooks I see a lot of Florida on those pages. First dived The Keys in 95, and spent New Years 2000 on the street in front of Sloppy Joe's, (while everybody else not standing on that rock was home...

So, hi there! I've been watching and reading since this board went up. Now I get around to signing up. Planning December trip to The Keys, around my home 20 the water gets really hard every winter.