Hi GuyZ
 I'm here too - I read this echo alot. I guess maybe I ot to start a
little writing too- Of course, I already got throwed out of two echoes
... Didn't really say nothing nasty or do anything bad, just said
something like "hi Joe , hows the weather?" - then I got chewed out for
saying something "off topic" which set me off. *Then* I got nasty, which
resulted in me getting trashed from the echo - So, I pulled the echoes
off the board (Less work & More HD Space for me).
 Anyway - I  use to dive alot... like for about 17 years off the western
half of Puerto Rico - My main reason was for Marine tropicals. I still
buy from the divers, and slave for a few wholesalers in the US.
I took to the ocean when I was 19 years old and just married... learned
how to dive at around 22, got into some bigtime back problems at around
30, and dropped out at 38 - now I'm 44, my back's a little better, and
I got something in the back of my head telling me to go back to the
ocean again.
 Any of you guys want to know anything about Puerto Rico diving, I'll
tell you what I know.
 Later
Angelo Felix
DB> -=> Quoting Michael Yeager to Stan Dean <=-
DB> SD>And you DIVE in that water, and I complain about 65.
DB> MY> A few years ago, we cut a hole in the ice to dive Lake Michagan.
  > MY> Don't see myself doing THAT again anytime in the near future. Anyhow,
  > MY> here in Florida the water temp isn't that bad. Just haven't hadtime 
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  > MY> get back in the water with the holidays coming. Hope to get wet
  > MY> shortly after New Years though...
DB>     Went for my 1st checkout dive in a place called Dutch Springs quarry
  >     North of Philadelphia.
DB>     Water temp was 42 degrees and my lips were so blue I thought I had
  >     been eating blueberry icecream ....
DB>     Can't imagine ice diving...
DB>     Florida diving is a whole `nuther world...went in my shorty and was
  >     boiling. Kept having to flush cool water (82 degrees) through the
  >     inside to keep from overheating...
DB>                                      Dave
DB>... Catch the Blue Wave!
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