I'm trying to get a couple of friends together (we live in different
places) to get our PADI certificates then take our open water dive
together someplace nice.  Any tips / suggestions?  We all live on the
US East coast and are looking for a nice place to dive / relax

http://picasaweb.google.com/dechucka
all criticism will be ignored. I know they aren't great but I said I would
post a few and a photo of myself for Popeye
Thanks for all the advice from the other thread on how I could post photos

Mine are rather crap or not so great pictures of fish and coral etc that you
have probably seen before so I won't post. However there is a couple of pics
of a huge toadfish ( probably tetractensos hamiltoni ), a blurred nudibranch
which was great in live view, a gorgonian fan ...

This might seem like an odd question, but I'm interested in obtaining
some sort of light that I can install in a tank that can withstand
pressures of up to 500 psi.  The first thing that came to my mind is
to buy a dive light, but I need this light to be either electronically

Say Hey:
Steve Kramer (aka Pinkie) has new email addressed dedicted to him by
Robert Johnson. Don't forget to let everyone kow Stevie. I enjoy the
attention your giving me.

School teacher killed in her own home:
 Never needed a gun in 41 years.
 Her husband, who watched her die helplessly, never previously had to
defend his family with a firearm.

As Scott, the devoted patriot as always, will undoubtedly be flooding
the newsgroup with hundreds of offtopic threads in the next couple
days, I'll try to balance things out by posting yet another trip
report, and the second trip report on Cobalt Coast in as many weeks.

Amid growing concern about how to dispose of a booming population of
jellyfish - including 6-foot-long monsters weighing more than 400
pounds - scientists in Japan are reporting development of a process
for extracting a commercially-valuable biomaterial from the marine

http://www.cdnn.info/news/industry/i070705.html
Dan Bracuk
Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do.
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The temp at 70 is 80.  There are no boats in the water.
Viz is about 5 ft (okay, not sure if that's a good or a bad).  Unless
you're divig dry with a FFM gamma globulin is not a bad idea, along
with about two weeks of doxycycline.

I was diving a wreck called the Lucy off the coast of Wales and I've done a
video.
http://www.divetheworld.com/Diving/Shipwrecks/MVLucy/index.htm
Hope you like it.

I never thought it would happen, but I am considering purchasing a
rebreather for underwater photography and I wanted to get some
feedback from the folks here about whether or not that is a good
choice for me.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/business/epaper/2007/06/27/hyperb
aric.html
Dan Bracuk
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I am thinking about booking a holiday on the Turks & Caicos Explorer II. I
can not find any reviews for it on-line.
Have you been on it or know someone who has? What did you think of it. The
only review I found rated this vessel a 4 out of 10 which is not promising.