Keep the Reports Commiing (in re: Hightened Travel Restrictions)

All - To anyone traveling by air with SCUBA gear over the next few weeks - I'd appreciate
any reports regarding experiences with TSA et. al in re: getting your gear through security,
given the "hightened" state of affairs. I'm going later this month and am now debating whether
or not to take the Ikelite housing with the light and battery pack etc. (I think I'll be lucky enough
to get my Pro Plus 2 past the random gate searches etc.).

I guess I won't be able to take my "mask defogger" in my carry-on! Oh well. <sigh>


Thanks.

____________________________________________
Regards,

Arnold

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:34:21 GMT, mag3 <zmpmag3-plongee@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> All - To anyone traveling by air with SCUBA gear over the next few weeks - I'd appreciate
> any reports regarding experiences with TSA et. al in re: getting your gear through security,
> given the "hightened" state of affairs. I'm going later this month and am now debating whether
> or not to take the Ikelite housing with the light and battery pack etc. (I think I'll be lucky enough
> to get my Pro Plus 2 past the random gate searches etc.).
>
> I guess I won't be able to take my "mask defogger" in my carry-on! Oh well. <sigh>

I would be less concerned about putting my gear in checked baggage if
I actually *trusted* the baggage handlers and inspectors not to steal
anything...Too bad that Bush didn't have the balls to follow my
suggestion -- nuke the whole fuckin' Middle East... He said that it
might give us a bit of a PR problem and the rest of the world might
not like us... And that is different than now, exactly how???

I've found that these days, I take commercial flights quite a bit
less... If I can drive there within a day, I'll probably do it instead
of flying...

"mag3" <zmpmag3-plongee@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> All - To anyone traveling by air with SCUBA gear over the next few weeks -
I'd appreciate
> any reports regarding experiences with TSA et. al in re: getting your gear
through security,
> given the "hightened" state of affairs. I'm going later this month and am
now debating whether
> or not to take the Ikelite housing with the light and battery pack etc. (I
think I'll be lucky enough
> to get my Pro Plus 2 past the random gate searches etc.).

Suggestion 1.) Don't pack a bomb in your suitcase.
Suggestion 2.) Ditto drugs.

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:22:34 +0000, Grumman-581 wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:00:03 GMT, "Chris Guynn"
> <chris.guynn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Suggestion 1.) Don't pack a bomb in your suitcase.
>> Suggestion 2.) Ditto drugs.
>
> As of today, don't carry much of anything in your carry-on luggage...
> Even drinks that you purchased within the secure area of the
> airport... Given the crap that they serve for airline food these
> days, I would sometimes bring a small lunch type cooler with a couple
> of drinks and snacks in it when I was flying with Grace and Kaitlyn...
> With the latest crap that the camel fuckers have attempted to pull, I
> would probably not be allowed on the plane with it these days... As we
> all know, a can of Coke could probably take an airliner out of the sky
> -- especially if it is carrying New Yorkers... Of course, here in
> Texas, we would just ask if you had any rum to go along with that
> Coke...

Try to sober up before your next post.

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:37:32 -0500, nospam@all.please.net wrote:
> Try to sober up before your next post.

For someone from around Crowley, LA, that's quite a statement... I was
under the impression that a person was born in South Louisiana with a
beer bottle in one hand and a church key in the other... <grin>

So, where you go diving around there? The rigs? How far out do you
have to go before you get acceptable visibility and depth?

"Grumman-581" <grumman581@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM-gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:00:03 GMT, "Chris Guynn"
> <chris.guynn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Suggestion 1.) Don't pack a bomb in your suitcase.
> > Suggestion 2.) Ditto drugs.
>
> As of today, don't carry much of anything in your carry-on luggage...
> Even drinks that you purchased within the secure area of the
> airport... Given the crap that they serve for airline food these
> days, I would sometimes bring a small lunch type cooler with a couple
> of drinks and snacks in it when I was flying with Grace and Kaitlyn...
> With the latest crap that the camel fuckers have attempted to pull, I
> would probably not be allowed on the plane with it these days... As we
> all know, a can of Coke could probably take an airliner out of the sky
> -- especially if it is carrying New Yorkers... Of course, here in
> Texas, we would just ask if you had any rum to go along with that
> Coke...

We'd also ask if you'd kindly give it to us or if we should shoot you and
take it.

"Grumman-581" <grumman581@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM-gmail.com> wrote in message
news:k1cnd2932rtqghn59jp55h1a2rj7630ief@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:00:03 GMT, "Chris Guynn"
> <chris.guynn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Suggestion 1.) Don't pack a bomb in your suitcase.
>> Suggestion 2.) Ditto drugs.
>
> As of today, don't carry much of anything in your carry-on luggage...
> Even drinks that you purchased within the secure area of the
> airport... Given the crap that they serve for airline food these
> days, I would sometimes bring a small lunch type cooler with a couple
> of drinks and snacks in it when I was flying with Grace and Kaitlyn...
>

I'm gonna start drinking breast milk in my rum again.......I never heard if
you should actually have a baby with you before you're allowed to take
breast milk onto a flight???

LD.

Nuke them??? Detroit would have to figure out how to use radioactive
gas..... Maybe a new kind of Nuke/Fuel Hybrid.... Could be cool....



Grumman-581 wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:34:21 GMT, mag3 <zmpmag3-plongee@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>All - To anyone traveling by air with SCUBA gear over the next few weeks - I'd appreciate
>>any reports regarding experiences with TSA et. al in re: getting your gear through security,
>>given the "hightened" state of affairs. I'm going later this month and am now debating whether
>>or not to take the Ikelite housing with the light and battery pack etc. (I think I'll be lucky enough
>>to get my Pro Plus 2 past the random gate searches etc.).
>>
>>I guess I won't be able to take my "mask defogger" in my carry-on! Oh well. <sigh>
>
>
> I would be less concerned about putting my gear in checked baggage if
> I actually *trusted* the baggage handlers and inspectors not to steal
> anything...Too bad that Bush didn't have the balls to follow my
> suggestion -- nuke the whole fuckin' Middle East... He said that it
> might give us a bit of a PR problem and the rest of the world might
> not like us... And that is different than now, exactly how???
>
> I've found that these days, I take commercial flights quite a bit
> less... If I can drive there within a day, I'll probably do it instead
> of flying...

Ed wrote:
> Nuke them??? Detroit would have to figure out how to use radioactive
> gas..... Maybe a new kind of Nuke/Fuel Hybrid.... Could be cool....
>
>
>
> Grumman-581 wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:34:21 GMT, mag3 <zmpmag3-plongee@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> All - To anyone traveling by air with SCUBA gear over the next few
>>> weeks - I'd appreciate
>>> any reports regarding experiences with TSA et. al in re: getting your
>>> gear through security,
>>> given the "hightened" state of affairs. I'm going later this month
>>> and am now debating whether
>>> or not to take the Ikelite housing with the light and battery pack
>>> etc. (I think I'll be lucky enough
>>> to get my Pro Plus 2 past the random gate searches etc.).
>>>
>>> I guess I won't be able to take my "mask defogger" in my carry-on! Oh
>>> well. <sigh>
>>
>>
>>
>> I would be less concerned about putting my gear in checked baggage if
>> I actually *trusted* the baggage handlers and inspectors not to steal
>> anything...Too bad that Bush didn't have the balls to follow my
>> suggestion -- nuke the whole fuckin' Middle East... He said that it
>> might give us a bit of a PR problem and the rest of the world might
>> not like us... And that is different than now, exactly how???
>>
>> I've found that these days, I take commercial flights quite a bit
>> less... If I can drive there within a day, I'll probably do it instead
>> of flying...
>
>
top posters huh

"Ed" <ed@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Nuke them??? Detroit would have to figure out how to use radioactive
> gas..... Maybe a new kind of Nuke/Fuel Hybrid.... Could be cool....

One of the best people that I know in this world, is originally from
Pakistan. He's been living in Canada for 30 years or so. His wife is a
lovely, lovely person, who is a real artist in her own right. She was born
in Florida and most of her relatives are still living there, except for her
parents who both died in the past year+/-, separately from one another but
still while at their retirement property on Sanibel Island. (I''m not saying
this well . . . but before her mom passed, mom went through both Hurricane
Katrina and Wilma).

Mike caught a flight today for LA. He'll be connecting with his oldest
daughter who is attending university there. But his real reason for going
is business related. Before any of that happens, as well as, on his way
home, he's going to be grilled harder than any of us whiteys. However, as
he said to me, he accepts his fate and appreciates it, because he just wants
everyone to be safe.