Reprinted without permission from my free monthly Undercurrent Online
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On The Lam

   I am thinking of getting an underwater camera to use while diving, and
the local dive shop is offering the Olympus Stylus 300 with an underwater
housing for about 600$.  I don't know offhand if it is the Ikelite housing
or

Just thought you folks might enjoy these:
http://www.joecartoon.com/pages/comicendangered/1/
http://www.joecartoon.com/pages/comicendangered/2/
http://www.joecartoon.com/pages/comicendangered/3/

Check this out:
http://pserver.mii.instacontent.net/adcouncil/10002/ac/mid162/adc_stroke_takeyou
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I think some of you might get a kick out of it near the end...
There is no link to the ASA's website, I just thought this was a *relevant*

Good to see you back -I've been out several days and was glad to see you
posting again !

Force Fins forces Rodale's Scuba Diving to pay for scuba equipment ratings
scam
http://www.cdnn.info/industry/i031113/i031113.html

http://www.divegilboa.com/
link to video about 2/3rds down the page.  Watch the whole video - the
fish comes into focus at about the 2 minute mark or so.
Dan Bracuk

I'm looking for good snorkeling sites near Miami. I'm going to be down
there from Thursday to Sunday. I'm not looking for any cheesy tour
stuff unless seeing any reefs necessitates it. Any suggestions?
TIA!

I have a question about the laws of salvaging in Canada. A friend of
mine told me that whatever it is, as soon as it breaks waves / sinks
it can be claimed and salvaged by a diver. Is this true? and if so
what are the proper steps to take to claim ownership on say ... an

Just how much toxin is in that fish you love to eat?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/23/MNGIO394FI1.DTL

Now that I've got a couple of steel 72s headed this way due to my
first eBay experience, I was curious whether they were galvanized back
then... I know that the steel O2 tank that I have for gas welding is
just painted and not galvanized, but I don't think that I ever dove

Could anyone tell me about snorkeling and diving around Las Cabos, I
am interesting in taking a week  off to those all inconclusive resort
and wonder if the diving are any good around the resort area.
Ectalk

Earlier I posted to this newsgroup that my recently purchased Sea&Sea
AquaPix DX-3100 was exhibiting surprisingly poor image quality
(http://groups.google.com/groups?q=dx-3100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-
8&selm=vs1kpu69dhulec%40corp.supernews.com&rnum=1).

Fingerless in Florida: PADI instructor loses finger after harassing
porcupine fish
http://www.cdnn.info/eco/e031123a/e031123a.html