From an email...
Hey Bill, can you believe someone stole the Conception? I work out at

I would like to glue latex seals to a pair of Atlas drygloves because I am
having too many issues with the ring system.
Does anybody know for an on line source were I can buy latex seals big
enough for the outside diameter of the gloves. The DUI seals besides being

Can anyone identify this urchin?  The picture was taken in Aruba.
Jay

Updated: 02:10 PM EST
Hunt Continues for Shark That Killed Snorkeler
By ROD McGUIRK, AP
CANBERRA, Australia (March 20) - Authorities were hunting Sunday for a

If those in the know could enlighten me about commercial diving: In
researching job leads I have run across civil engineering firms that
perform waterfront work and they like to have their engineers conduct
"inspection work", requiring commercial diver capability. The

I just finished two weeks in Cozumel and hit a number of the popular spots:
Cedral Pass, Palankar Gardens, Yucab, Colombia Wall, etc., but I didn't get
enough time at each to compare them with authority.  Anyone have some
specific favorites?

Saturday morning, 2005 March 19, I did a two-tank diver trip from the
dive shop at John Pennekamp part in Key Largo, Florida.  (My cousin
who planned the trip had to beg off due to a head cold.)
When I returned to the boat after the second dive I was told (all of us

Nine-foot alligator kills Florida man
Forearm found in stomachThe Associated Press
Updated: 12:07 a.m. ET March 16, 2005LAKELAND, Fla. - A man found dead in a
pond was the victim of a nearly nine-foot alligator that was captured and

A good argument for having DAN insurance and not being to complacent around barracuda:
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/4269866/detail.html

I'm taking my advanced but don't know which program would be better PADI or
SSI. Does anyone have any experiences they could share?
Steve

Anybody next two weeks in Manado/Sulawesi?
And with Thalassa Diving?
See you there.
(All others: eat your heart out ;-P)

This is the first time I've posted to rec.scuba (and the first time to
use a newsgroup at all...).
I am finished with my studies (mathmatics and sports, beeing a
teacher) and I would love to get in the diving-business now. I took

Has anyone here, when not writing about guns, thought about having their own
compressor so they can fill their own air bottles?  It would seem that,
especially boat owners that do a lot of diving from their boat and have the
diesel power to drive a compressor, would find it ...

Enjoyed it dude - some day we will dive together
Gruman on his way to Iowa stopped and had lunch with me - it is great
meeting a rec.scubian!
if we would have had more time could have had a better time.  anytime

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It rocks.
http://www.gap-software.com