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Good luck with the ENT... please let us know how it goes.

I just realized I should have probably stuck this in the charter boats, cruises and whatnots, section... sorry! :( If someone wants to move it, please feel free.

This is sort of a "dream" trip in the works for us. We've been wanting to figure out a way to get out to Easter Island to see the Moai statues since half past forever and I just hit on this cruise. We've never traveled with Linblad before and all I know about them is that they are somehow...

If you think that you have an actual ear infection, you need to go see your doctor. Nothing you can buy OTC or cook up at home will clear up a bad case of otitis externa (swimmer's ear) and it will only continue to get worse as time goes by. Symptoms of such an infection would be... pain...

Wow! :D If that's the way it works, we might have to rethink our preconceived notions a bit. We've stayed away from cruising places that we'd want to dive solely for this reason and now you're making me think it might not have been as bad as we'd guessed it would have been. One way or...

I can't say that we've ever tried to combine our cruising with our diving, but if you do, be super careful. If you use the cruise ship's dive excursions you're going to be stuck on a cattle boat and be likely to have a miserable time, but if you don't and your outside contractor is late, the...

Congratulations and kudos to your instructor for not setting you free before your time. My prayers are with you and all of Israel during these scary and troubled times. Hopefully, the IDF will bring a decisive end to this and soon. And as far as being that close to the Red Sea....Lucky! :D

No kidding...that would have paid two months of rent for me and was probably what she was going to use to pay the guys to oil the teak decks on that boat or to get a massage or something. Who knows? I should have been stuffing bills in my bikini top! The boat was called the "Overdraft"...

A while back, a woman on a boat in the Boca Raton Resort and Club Marina dropped an envelope with $1000 in cash into the water. The harbormaster radioed me at the pool to see if I could find it. There were 50 dollar bills floating around everywhere under that boat and I found every last one...

Wow...gone in '02! Goes to show how long I've been out of town. I imagine everybody I know has scattered to the four winds and then some by now. Thanks again for the info.

Shops around here charge between $4 and $6 as well. On the other hand, if you get super friendly with the staff and know your way around the compressor sometimes you can sneak in and fill your own tanks for free. :)

I am so jealous!!!! Not to mention that if I was ever actually that lucky, it wouldn't last long enough to keep me from becoming lunch. But dang that was cool.

Hey Sandbar... Thanks for the head's up. I taught at Coral Reef back in 1990/91 and haven't been back since I left Florida for Texas. We were getting ready to head out that way and I was curious to see if anybody I knew was still around. I guess I've been stuck in Texas way too long! :(

If your son really, desperately wanted to dive, he'd be driving you nuts about it - just like they do about everything else they want to do...staying out past curfew, getting a car, and so forth. When the bug bit me, my LDS couldn't get rid of me. My parents only paid for my OW class and my...

sambo.... what an adorable picture! I hope y'all have that in a frame somewhere. :)

I haven't been back in town in half past forever and just tried to look up my old shop on the net. I found a listing for it, but no website and the phone # is disconnected. I was wondering if any of you locals knew how long they'd been gone and who (if anybody) replaced them.

H2Andy... While the article doesn't apply to diving situations specifically, I think that there is a possibility that the case law might. But then again, I sure ain't no attorney! :D They are only talking about Texas, so who knows what other states are doing... this was also 5 or so years ago...

All my gear except tanks and weights unless we're driving somewhere and then we bring those too. I also bring a backup mask, reg, and LOTS of bits and pieces along with the ever important tie wraps and duct tape. I'd rather wear the same moldy clothes for a week than pack light on the gear end!

An interesting article on this topic... http://www.insurancejournal.com/magazines/southcentral/2001/02/05/legalbeat/22351.htm When I was teaching PADI medic first aid classes, I used to tell my students not to be afraid to try to use what they had learned in class. Even if they weren't...