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Scuba Forum / General / March 2004Guns gone wild!!
Just curious....should I carry a gun onboard a boat when I'm renting a boat to go out diving? Thanks if anyone can help! you need to look out for pirates???? > Just curious....should I carry a gun onboard a boat when I'm renting a boat > to go out diving? > > Thanks if anyone can help! I really applaud PADI for taking the lead in restricting dive training to only what's necessary and putting all that other stuff into specialty courses so it's available to those who want it. Dan Bracuk If at first you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure. The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/ > I really applaud PADI for taking the lead in restricting dive training > to only what's necessary and putting all that other stuff into > specialty courses so it's available to those who want it. I was planning on taking the torpedo and depth charge specialty course, but unfortunately they don't offer it in my area :-(. -Eric > I was planning on taking the torpedo and depth charge specialty course, > but unfortunately they don't offer it in my area :-(. We can hook you up, but you have to come out here, dive, eat and drink with Us. > I really applaud PADI for taking the lead in restricting dive training > to only what's necessary and putting all that other stuff into [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > If at first you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure. > The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/ Yeah... I think this guy needs to take the Piracy course... then he'd have a chance to use this gun he's always yakking on about... rhys "rnf2" <rnf2@NOSPAMwaikato.ac.nz> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :Yeah... I think this guy needs to take the Piracy course... then he'd have a :chance to use this gun he's always yakking on about... I hear that you get an eye patch on successful completion of that course. Dan Bracuk If at first you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure. The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/ > Just curious....should I carry a gun onboard a boat when I'm renting a boat > to go out diving? > > Thanks if anyone can help! only if you test it on your own forehead first. You are becoming tiresome fins a hole crawl in die "dazed and confuzed" <dedmann@netnitco.net> wrote the following dribble... > fins a hole > crawl in > die fins a hole? > "dazed and confuzed" <dedmann@netnitco.net> wrote the following dribble... > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > fins a hole? yeah. > > "dazed and confuzed" <dedmann@netnitco.net> wrote the following dribble... > > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > > yeah. with splits? rhys "envision" dribbled down his momma's chin ... <useless-dribble-snipped> <bitch-slap> <plonk> > Just curious....should I carry a gun onboard a boat when I'm renting a boat > to go out diving? > Thanks if anyone can help! You need to clarify "gun" or "rifle". If not, this could turn into a military dick joke. > Just curious....should I carry a gun onboard a boat when I'm renting a boat > to go out diving? > Thanks if anyone can help! You need to clarify "gun" or "rifle". If not, this could turn into a military dick joke. > Just curious....should I carry a gun onboard a boat when I'm renting a boat > to go out diving? > Thanks if anyone can help! You need to clarify "gun" or "rifle". If not, this could turn into a military dick joke and not of my making. > You need to clarify "gun" or "rifle". If not, this could turn into > a military dick joke and not of my making. 'twas a cantankerous old babe named Salty, whose tact was running quite faulty, she'd slam with a grin, as she plucked from her chin, and drank from a high fiber malty. > > You need to clarify "gun" or "rifle". If not, this could turn into > > a military dick joke and not of my making. > 'twas a cantankerous old babe named Salty, > whose tact was running quite faulty, > she'd slam with a grin, > as she plucked from her chin, > and drank from a high fiber malty. LOL !! Awwww Curtis, that's rather cute !! Well, I sat my old babe bones down here, plucked my chin hairs and tried not to let them fall into my high fiber malty while I pondered over a limerick for you. But dang... Curtis is a difficult name to rhyme !! I thought of 'circus' and I know that you have big feet but I can't picture you being in clown shoes and the like. Besides, your poem was rather benign and I'm needing to get dressed for a dinner out. Maybe after some sushi and saki, I'll think up a poem for you. If not, then don't feel neglected. Actually, I'm feeling a bit kindly toward you right now so I doubt that I'll be 'slamming you with a grin' later. :) Barb, Hi, Sushi's great, but Sake? That taste's like turpentine. :-) IMHO But then I can't drink Scotch either, guess it's an acquired taste. Tempura is excellent as well. Now a Cosmo! Paul > > > You need to clarify "gun" or "rifle". If not, this could turn into > > > a military dick joke and not of my making. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Actually, I'm feeling a bit kindly toward you right now so I doubt > that I'll be 'slamming you with a grin' later. :) > Barb, > Hi, Sushi's great, but Sake? That taste's like turpentine. :-) IMHO But > then I can't drink Scotch either, guess it's an acquired taste. Tempura is > excellent as well. Now a Cosmo! > Paul A nice two fingers worth of Glenfiddich, while costing the earth at a bar, is a great tipple. At home it's cheap red wine and Beer :) rhys > Barb, > Hi, Sushi's great, but Sake? That taste's like turpentine. :-) IMHO But > then I can't drink Scotch either, guess it's an acquired taste. Tempura is > excellent as well. Now a Cosmo! > Paul Hi Paul !! Haven't seen ya for a while. I hope all is well with you and your family !! :) As far as saki, wellll...I can't drink Scotch either but I like sake. It has to be heated up *hot* though. I love tempura and teriyaki dishes. I've even managed to eat cooked eel. LOL And Cosmos... oh geeze boy !! They are so easy to drink that you can get smashed before you realize it !! The first time I drank those, I thought it didn't taste like anything but sweet so I downed 2 in 30 minutes. Ha !! I learned. > > "Curtis" <cavey_curtis@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:<dioXb.37771$A75.28374@bignews5.bellsouth.net>... [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Actually, I'm feeling a bit kindly toward you right now so I doubt > > that I'll be 'slamming you with a grin' later. :) >>> You need to clarify "gun" or "rifle". If not, this could turn >>> into a military dick joke and not of my making. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > clown shoes and the like. Besides, your poem was rather benign and I'm > needing to get dressed for a dinner out. Maybe after some sushi . . . bait > and saki . . . Invented to make bait palatable. Lee > >>> You need to clarify "gun" or "rifle". If not, this could turn > >>> into a military dick joke and not of my making. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > bait Ever try it ?? > > and saki . . . > Invented to make bait palatable. LOL !! You're probably right on that. Well, regardless, I never got to drink any fair amount of sake to make my bait more palatable. I drove 1 hr 15 mins to get to the restaurant to join friends. Those friends invited others that I knew who play in a band and they were playing that nite just outside of Delaware. Soooo...I drove another 45 mins south to the club to pay $5 cover and drink one beer at the cost of $3 and then drink ice water the rest of the nite so that I could drive the 2 hrs back home again. Hahahaha I had fun seeing my friends play and sing though... and I even danced. :) I have to admit that I thought lots about ESG and my last time down in Fla when Tara and I got him out dancing. I miss that...and I miss seeing you, Jayna, Sharkie, etc. There is something about typing here that gets lost and can only be expressed during a IRL meeting. >>> and saki . . . > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Sharkie, etc. There is something about typing here that gets lost and > can only be expressed during a IRL meeting. So give it a month or so for the weather and water to warm up and come back for another dose of southern hospitality. Last weekend, water temperatures were a pretty consistent 73 F on the surface. I don't know what they were below the surface. It's been a while since I was last wet. We were out fishing for fish that I knew, in advance, I never catch, just to keep a friend away from home while his wife and mine set up his 50th birthday party. It was quite a party, including an open bar with professional bartender, a DJ that played until the cops shut him down and even hula dancers, my personal favorite. I wish Jayna could move that way. Hell, I wish I could move that way. It made a long day for me. Up and away from the dock at 6 AM, a day of fishing and back to the dock at 7:00 PM, a shower aboard and straight to the party. My instructions were not to allow him to arrive before 7:30. I succeeded, but only by slowing my return to shore. This weekend, the weather's turned cold. It was about 50 when we came back from dinner last night. We spent about an hour each way on a friend's boat . . . with no heater. Brrrr. We started at our boat club, while it was still reasonably warm. Expecting it to get a bit cooler, we got the only jackets available from out boat. That was the windbreakers we keep aboard our boat. Not real warm, but much better than nothing. We'll be adding sweatshirts to the standard boat stuff by this afternoon. Lobster season is growing short and my supply is low. My lobster hunting buddy found out he had major blockage in his circulatory system sometime last year. At first, it looked like there was nothing that could be done, but he finally found a doctor that could get a stint (sp?) in to open up the flow. We weren't at all sure how things were going to turn out, but I'm happy to report that they could not be better. We got the results of his stress test day before yesterday. He's cleared to return to regular work. Since his regular work is as the head of a local police dive team, that means cleared for lobster hunting as well. Look out bugs, here we come. Lee > Lobster season is growing short and my supply is low. My lobster hunting > buddy found out he had major blockage in his circulatory system sometime [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Since his regular work is as the head of a local police dive team, that > means cleared for lobster hunting as well. Look out bugs, here we come. Yeah, well tell your buddy to cut down on the butter from now on. He should be hunting seaweed instead of lobsters - much better on the cholesterol level. Try grilling them coated with a sheen of olive oil, or stir-fried in monounsaturated peanut oil. I'm leaving the bugs alone this year. It's a lot different trying to catch them out here where you can't use cheating devices (ticklesticks, snares, harpoons, etc.) and your hands are numb from the 55-degree water. > Yeah, well tell your buddy to cut down on the butter from now on. He should > be hunting seaweed instead of lobsters - much better on the cholesterol > level. Usually, I avoid trying to tell cops much of anything. They seem to prefer to do the telling. He watches his diet pretty carefully. In addition to everything else, he's diabetic. > Try grilling them coated with a sheen of olive oil, or stir-fried in > monounsaturated peanut oil. Generally, we boil or grill them plain. It's the butter dip that does the damage. > I'm leaving the bugs alone this year. It's a lot different trying to catch > them out here where you can't use cheating devices (ticklesticks, snares, > harpoons, etc.) and your hands are numb from the 55-degree water. Ah well. In the long run, it's cheaper to buy them than to catch them anyway, but it's not nearly as much fun. Lee > Ah well. In the long run, it's cheaper to buy them than to catch them > anyway, but it's not nearly as much fun. I can hypothetically take 7 legals per day for the cost of an airfill and feeding the parking meter at Laguna. Since I get the air for free, the price drops to only $2.00 (in quarters) for 7 lobsters. I should also add in the cost of the gas for the 50-mile trip each way, but it's still a bargain out here by the numbers alone. My problem is with the "fun" factor. We lobster at night here since that's the best way to get the bugs without cheating like Floridians. So now the 55-degree water is complemented by 55-degree or colder moist air. Driving an hour (each way) to Laguna, finding parking, donning a drysuit, hiking down (and then back up) 6 flights of stairs to the beach, and then freezing my butt off for an hour bouncing around in swells and currents and dodging omnipresent urchins, makes whatever price the market is charging seem like the real bargain. If only we could get the real thing in stores and not have to settle for the inferior Maine or Aussie crap. > I can hypothetically take 7 legals per day for the cost of an airfill > and feeding the parking meter at Laguna. Since I get the air for > free, the price drops to only $2.00 (in quarters) for 7 lobsters. I > should also add in the cost of the gas for the 50-mile trip each way, > but it's still a bargain out here by the numbers alone. I can, hypothetically, do a lot of things I don't often do for real. Limiting out on lobster is often one of them. So is finding them on a shore dive. That leaves hiring my way onto a charter boat or using my own, neither or which is exactly cheap. > My problem is with the "fun" factor. We lobster at night here since > that's the best way to get the bugs without cheating like Floridians. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > only we could get the real thing in stores and not have to settle for > the inferior Maine or Aussie crap. Should I assume that your statement means there's no commercial lobstering in California? Lee > > whatever price the market is charging seem like the real bargain. If > > only we could get the real thing in stores and not have to settle for [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Lee There's some, but not a huge amount. Much more lobstering takes place south of the border. >>> whatever price the market is charging seem like the real bargain. >>> If only we could get the real thing in stores and not have to [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > There's some, but not a huge amount. Much more lobstering takes place > south of the border. The situation is very different here. You actually have trouble navigating, even in the established channels, due to the thousands of lobster pot buoys. Lee > So give it a month or so for the weather and water to warm up and come back > for another dose of southern hospitality. Not possible right now. I have too much going on. :( > Last weekend, water temperatures were a pretty consistent 73 F on the > surface. I don't know what they were below the surface. It's been a while > since I was last wet. Why ?? :( > We were out fishing for fish that I knew, in advance, > I never catch, just to keep a friend away from home while his wife and mine [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > not to allow him to arrive before 7:30. I succeeded, but only by slowing my > return to shore. Wow... that sure is a long day !! Sounds like alot of fun though. Did he get alot of those 'over the hill' gag gifts ?? > This weekend, the weather's turned cold. It was about 50 when we came back > from dinner last night. We spent about an hour each way on a friend's boat [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > our boat. Not real warm, but much better than nothing. We'll be adding > sweatshirts to the standard boat stuff by this afternoon. Very odd that your weather has turned cold and ours has warmed up considerably. > Lobster season is growing short and my supply is low. My lobster hunting > buddy found out he had major blockage in his circulatory system sometime [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Since his regular work is as the head of a local police dive team, that > means cleared for lobster hunting as well. Look out bugs, here we come. I'm glad your friend is alright. How old is he, if I may ask ?? I see where Greg commented about the lobster/butter thing. My bro in law is 49 and had a heart attack a few years ago. He quit smoking right away cold turkey and has been doing good there but he gained some weight and so went on the Atkins diet. He was bragging about eating a whole 1/4 lb stick of melted butter with a lobster... and frying his eggs in the bacon grease. I don't know but I have to agree with Greg that all that grease just can't be good for a person. >> So give it a month or so for the weather and water to warm up and >> come back for another dose of southern hospitality. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Why ?? :( Doing other stuff, plus the water's still a bit on the cold side for me. I'll put my wetsuit on and dive cold water once in a while, but as long as there are other things we want to do, I'm disinclined to get wet. >> We were out fishing for fish that I knew, in advance, >> I never catch, just to keep a friend away from home while his wife [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Wow... that sure is a long day !! Sounds like alot of fun though. Did > he get alot of those 'over the hill' gag gifts ?? Don't know. I must say, I don't understand the attitude of many regarding gifts. They wait until after the party to open them. It makes no sense to me. If you give me a gift, I presume you would take pleasure in my pleasure in receiving it, so I try to open gifts while those that gave them are around. What's the incentive to give a gift to somebody, particularly a gag gift, if nobody, including the givver, gets to see it. > Very odd that your weather has turned cold and ours has warmed up > considerably. It was a cold front for sure. Maybe you're experiencing a warm one following it across the country. Rapid changes in temperature aren't all that rare here. We just don't get changes to either extreme. The Gulf Stream is a significant moderating factor. > I'm glad your friend is alright. How old is he, if I may ask ?? He just turned 50. L:ee <snipping a bit here and there> > Doing other stuff, plus the water's still a bit on the cold side for me. > I'll put my wetsuit on and dive cold water once in a while, but as long as > there are other things we want to do, I'm disinclined to get wet. I'm surprised that you say this. You always dove with just a skin or a shorty when I dove with you and so I didn't think that you felt the cold as much. > Don't know. I must say, I don't understand the attitude of many regarding > gifts. They wait until after the party to open them. It makes no sense to > me. If you give me a gift, I presume you would take pleasure in my pleasure > in receiving it, so I try to open gifts while those that gave them are > around. What's the incentive to give a gift to somebody, particularly a gag > gift, if nobody, including the givver, gets to see it. I agree. I've been to parties where I had to leave early and I actually requested that the person open my gift before I left. :) > <snipping a bit here and there> > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > shorty when I dove with you and so I didn't think that you felt the > cold as much. I don't seem to feel it as much as most, but I'm not immune. When the water gets cold enough for me to put on a wetsuit to be comfortable, I'm more likely to get out of the water unless it's a special dive. Unlike those that are visiting, I can wait for a better day. I tend to dive in calmer seas than most for the same reason. If today's not perfect, tomorrow, or the day after, will be. > I agree. I've been to parties where I had to leave early and I > actually requested that the person open my gift before I left. :) I probably should do that, but more and more, it seems like I'm the odd one for thinking that way. I don't want to rain on somebody else's parade. Lee > LOL !! Awwww Curtis, that's rather cute !! Well, I sat my old babe > bones down here, plucked my chin hairs and tried not to let them fall > into my high fiber malty while I pondered over a limerick for you. But > dang... Curtis is a difficult name to rhyme !! 'twas a cranky mid-lifer named Curtis, from all of his dives he did surface, with a commanding voice, came these words of choice, "I" dive so "I" have a purpose. Curtis Last dives 22 Feb 04, a pair in some flooded sinkhole out in the middle of friggin nowhere, far from any modern convenience. Water was 74-75 deg, vis over 60 ft, weather warm with blue skies. Prettier than ANYTHING I've ever seen at Boynton, except maybe that crazy Canadian lawyer chick with a guy's name. <evil grin> > Last dives 22 Feb 04, a pair in some flooded sinkhole out in the middle of > friggin nowhere, far from any modern convenience. Water was 74-75 deg, vis > over 60 ft, weather warm with blue skies. Prettier than ANYTHING I've ever > seen at Boynton, except maybe that crazy Canadian lawyer chick with a guy's > name. <evil grin> Ah Curtis . . .that is *so* sweet. It's been a long time since anyone made me blush. :^) :^) > > LOL !! Awwww Curtis, that's rather cute !! Well, I sat my old babe > > bones down here, plucked my chin hairs and tried not to let them fall [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Curtis Ok. Knock it off. You have one of those software programs that lets you print out limericks, right ??!! :) And, I'm glad that you admitted you were cranky. Heh... that's the tip of the iceberg. <Grin> > Last dives 22 Feb 04, a pair in some flooded sinkhole out in the middle of > friggin nowhere, far from any modern convenience. Water was 74-75 deg, vis > over 60 ft, weather warm with blue skies. Prettier than ANYTHING I've ever > seen at Boynton, except maybe that crazy Canadian lawyer chick with a guy's > name. <evil grin> You men don't need a modern convenience. Us gals might one or two... but if pressed, we can deal with it. The rest of your dive doesn't sound bad at all. I'm disparing about my last dives. They were toooooo long ago !! LOL My last dives were in October with Ken Kurtis's liveaboard trip to the Sea of Cortez. Oh well. That's the way it is with us ppls who live in the north, unless we're wealthy enough to afford to travel often. I'm not. > Ok. Knock it off. You have one of those software programs that lets > you print out limericks, right ??!! :) And, I'm glad that you > admitted you were cranky. Heh... that's the tip of the iceberg. <Grin> No program, and crossing certain grey lines with my friends will make me quite cranky. > You men don't need a modern convenience. Us gals might one or two... > but if pressed, we can deal with it. The rest of your dive doesn't [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > with us ppls who live in the north, unless we're wealthy enough to > afford to travel often. I'm not. Damn nice to live in dive paradise, a sincere fys after I rub it in is acceptable......from friendlies. Curtis > > Ok. Knock it off. You have one of those software programs that lets > > you print out limericks, right ??!! :) And, I'm glad that you > > admitted you were cranky. Heh... that's the tip of the iceberg. <Grin> > > No program, and crossing certain grey lines with my friends will make me > quite cranky. I understand re: friends and I support your feeling on that. In fact, I won't even call you the male equivalent of a twat sister for doing it. How's that for being generous ?? <grin> OTOH, if you truly find yourself getting cranky because of things that you read here, then you're investing way too much energy in this group. Maybe you need to get out and dive more... or go break some bricks. Are you still doing the brick thing ?? You haven't mentioned it in a long while... and it's been ages since you emailed me that pic of you during your competition. > > You men don't need a modern convenience. Us gals might one or two... > > but if pressed, we can deal with it. The rest of your dive doesn't [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > with us ppls who live in the north, unless we're wealthy enough to > > afford to travel often. I'm not. > Damn nice to live in dive paradise, a sincere fys after I rub it in is > acceptable......from friendlies. Well that may be... but I lived there with all that is going on, I still wouldn't have that much dive time. It bes that way sometime ya know. :) babette7401@hotmail.com (Salty) pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: : In fact, :I won't even call you the male equivalent of a twat sister for doing :it. which is? Dan Bracuk If at first you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure. The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/ > babette7401@hotmail.com (Salty) pounded away at his keyboard resulting > in: > : In fact, > :I won't even call you the male equivalent of a twat sister for doing > :it. > which is? I don't know. I suppose you would have to ask the person who coined the phrase "twat sister". Should have read... "if I lived there". ~Queen of Typos~ |
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