The Providers
American Airlines (www.aa.com),     Sunset Waters Beach Resort
(www.sunsetwaters.com/index.php).
The Travel

I went in two weeks ago to give blood.  They defered me until today.
If you've been to Cozumel, Cancun or Playa del Carmen, you're defered
for a year, according to CDC guidelines.  The lady told me that would
change when the new guidelines came out, that was probably going to be

I am getting tired (literally) of my current fins and think that split
fins might be a better alternative. Browsing through the online stores
though I have a small problem with finding the right size of open heel
fins. My regular shoe size is 9.5, I usually dive with drysuit boots

Here's a first class rocket scientist. Wants to ban handguns to stop
stabbings. That'll work . . . NOT.
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Ontario Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty said Wednesday that he does not want

I'm thinking about taking a diving trip to Thailand's Similan Islands
at the beginning of November. Some sources say the monsoon season's
over by then; some dive shops have said that at that exact time it's
day-today as to what the weather will be like then.

http://www.channel5belize.com/archive_detail_story.php?story_id=19357
This is just the latest incidence with this company.  Others have reported
similar problems though not to this extent.  Some have just felt they had no
choice but to pay for what appears to be extortion and then ...

Say Hey Stevie:
Ask your wife Nobuko-san if a shokutaku tsukemono ki can be purchased
in Chang Mai.
5555 Yee-Haw !!

He just got some bad news.  Assuming as positive an outcome as is possible,
he's been told he'll be able to swim and otherwise have a "normal life".
Among all the things he's concerned about, one of them is whether or not
he'll be able to dive with his colostomy bag.

is the wheel still part of the I.E?

Although a cruise ship is hardly the ideal way to plan a scuba vacation,
I gotta admit that my first dive was a Princess Cruises deal in Mexico.
 Enjoyed it immensely, and it got me hooked (though a friend found the
dive an "experiment in terror"-- well, it was PADI!)

He went quietly at 84, nothing much else to say but I am having minutes
silence in his memory

Is the pressure on you the same, at any given depth, whether you dive in a
lake, a crater, a swimming pool or the ocean?
I'm thinking the larger the body of water the more water there is to exert
pressure on you.

Has anyone here ever dove on the sweetheart in Lake Huron? I went out with
some friends on Sunday diving and we took the coordinates from a book called
"100 best wrecks of the great lakes" anyway even with two GPS units and
supposedly sitting on the wreck we found nothing.

Sheldon