Hall's Dive Center: The WORST diving experience in my 30 years in diving:

On Jan 10, 8:21 am, Alan Street <agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com> wrote:
> In article <1168282680.449254.107...@51g2000cwl.googlegroups. com>,
>
> flyboy08 <phow...@aeroconsulting.com> wrote:
> > While still in the shop, we were informed that the dive master on our
> > boat would not be in the water with us? Hmmm, I have dived the world
> > and never experienced this before, but I have 300 plus dives and many
> > from the key's years back.As many have pointed out, DMs in the water aren't all that common. I'd
> point out that the exception is in tourist/resort areas that tend to
> have large numbers of divers that need to be kept out of trouble.

It's my experience that your "exception" is closer to the rule. I'd
put it the other way: with the exception of those areas that attract
more local divers, the rule is that dive boats tend to send DMs along
with the divers.

Lee Bell wrote:

> As far as I know, there are no longer any beaches in South Florida where you
> can drive a vehicle.

Isn't it true that the comical locals cops (aka "sand troopers") are
known to occasionally run over beach goers down there and refer to this
practice as "planting".

You might mention this in So Fla tourist promotions.
--
SJM

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:16:31 -0800, in
<1168460191.195123.148350@p59g2000hsd.googlegroups .com>, Scott McFadden
wrote:
> Isn't it true that the comical locals cops (aka "sand troopers") are
> known to occasionally run over beach goers down there and refer to this
> practice as "planting".

Don't know what they might call it, but I have read of a couple of cases
over the years where the local cops driving on the sand have physically
run over someone... Texas beaches are still open for driving, although
there are a couple of places where it is not possible to gain access thus
preventing you from driving your car on the beach... Some places restrict
it to only licensed vehicles on the beach so as to keep ATVs off of
there... Of course, with a little work, you could license an ATV...

Scott McFadden wrote

>> As far as I know, there are no longer any beaches in South Florida where
>> you
>> can drive a vehicle.
>
> Isn't it true that the comical locals cops (aka "sand troopers") are
> known to occasionally run over beach goers down there and refer to this
> practice as "planting".

I think that's happened up around Daytona a few times, but I don't recall
seeing anything like that down here. Then again, the press down here would
do everything in their power to ensure I didn't see it.

Lee

"Lee Bell" <pleebell2@bellsouth.net> wrote

> Nevermind. She can still be a South Florida DM. Not only do they not get
> in the water with divers, the boats don't normally offer coffee either.
> You're lucky to get water and/or a cooler with some ice for beverages you
> may bring with you. The better boats have animal cookies.

And Scuba-Do had CHOCOLATE.

Magilla wrote:
> "Lee Bell" <pleebell2@bellsouth.net> wrote
>
> > Nevermind. She can still be a South Florida DM. Not only do they not get
> > in the water with divers, the boats don't normally offer coffee either.
> > You're lucky to get water and/or a cooler with some ice for beverages you
> > may bring with you. The better boats have animal cookies.
>
> And Scuba-Do had CHOCOLATE.

*DARK* Chocolate!


-hh

In article <1168452076.964795.22130@o58g2000hsb.googlegroups. com>, Greg
Mossman <mossman@qnet.com> wrote:

> On Jan 10, 8:21 am, Alan Street <agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com> wrote:
> > In article <1168282680.449254.107...@51g2000cwl.googlegroups. com>,
> >
> > flyboy08 <phow...@aeroconsulting.com> wrote:
> > > While still in the shop, we were informed that the dive master on our
> > > boat would not be in the water with us? Hmmm, I have dived the world
> > > and never experienced this before, but I have 300 plus dives and many
> > > from the key's years back.As many have pointed out, DMs in the water
> > > aren't all that common. I'd
> > point out that the exception is in tourist/resort areas that tend to
> > have large numbers of divers that need to be kept out of trouble.
>
> It's my experience that your "exception" is closer to the rule. I'd
> put it the other way: with the exception of those areas that attract
> more local divers, the rule is that dive boats tend to send DMs along
> with the divers.
>

I forgot how good you are at restating something, but in a way that
makes it sound totally opposite

On 10 Jan 2007 16:39:19 -0800, "-hh" <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
wrote in rec.scuba:

>
>Magilla wrote:
>> "Lee Bell" <pleebell2@bellsouth.net> wrote
>>
>> > Nevermind. She can still be a South Florida DM. Not only do they not get
>> > in the water with divers, the boats don't normally offer coffee either.
>> > You're lucky to get water and/or a cooler with some ice for beverages you
>> > may bring with you. The better boats have animal cookies.
>>
>> And Scuba-Do had CHOCOLATE.
>
>*DARK* Chocolate!
>
Very good dark chocolate!

John Hanson wrote

>>> And Scuba-Do had CHOCOLATE.
>>
>>*DARK* Chocolate!
>>
> Very good dark chocolate!

Is there such a thing as bad dark chocolate?

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:16:44 -0500, "Lee Bell"
<pleebell2@bellsouth.net> wrote in rec.scuba:

>John Hanson wrote
>
>>>> And Scuba-Do had CHOCOLATE.
>>>
>>>*DARK* Chocolate!
>>>
>> Very good dark chocolate!
>
>Is there such a thing as bad dark chocolate?
>
I guess not.