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That should work but you will probably want to remove as much material as you can with a straight walled router bit or table saw before "hogging" out that much wood with that big 3/4" bit. This is especially true with your super hard cocobola. I can envision lots of smoking! :) Anothe...

I'm not storing it in the car, at this moment it's draped over various structures of my living room/kitchen. i bought a fan at BigBoxMart today, and have that pointed at it on low speed, with my freshly laundered drysuit underwear on a hanger in the back doorway to annoy my neighbors (they've alrea...

... but I feel guilty abandoning this stuff, and just leaving it in the trunk of my car. Please help... it's gazing at me reproachfully! Your not storing it in the trunk of your car I hope? :eek: Trunk temps can easily reach 20 or more hotter than outside air temperatures. Hot temps and wet, salty ...

UW tripod? I was wondering how you got some of those shots so steady. Great Job!!!

I've got a trip booked for the San Juans next month, now I'm really excited about it!

Oh man, your using Cocobolo? That's stuff is as gorgeous as it is spendy! Router table or table saw would work but I would go further and suggest you use a feather board to keep the material pushed up against the fence. Also, if you run your stock through the opposite direction every-other pass (ass...

A long time ago when I shot a lot with expensive film SLR's, I had an "inland marine" policy on my equipment through my homeowners policy. It was dirt cheap at the time, not sure what it would be now or what it would cover but I would start with your own local agent and see what's available.

I'm not sure what's wrong with the link, here's a cut and paste. Toledo man drowns in scuba accident Posted: Wednesday, Jun 30th, 2010 BY: Larry Coonrod Divers think victim was hunting for clams in Yaquina Bay A Toledo man died Saturday while scuba diving in Yaquina Bay near the south jetty. Newport...

This really is sad news. I was with another group of divers diving off shore this same day out of Newport. I feel very bad for the family.
Here's a link I found.
www.newportnewstimes.com/v2_news_art icles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2 3115

Welcome from a fellow Oregonian, I live just over the hill in Salem and am anxious to learn the local Oregon coast too.

Way cool, thanks for sharing!

Saturday dive off the coast.... buddy boat needed. I have room for one more diver who doesn't bring the dive shop with him or her!!!! :) Boat leaves the dock at 7A.M..... gl I'm still looking forward to meeting up with you someday unfortunately Saturday doesn't work for me. It's my daughters gradua...

Whats the mfg and how difficult/expensive to convert them for a yoke valve?

Huge bummer Matt. Fighting with an insurance company can be almost as painful as the incident! As a new diver considering DAN, I'm now having second thoughts. While I feel Mattley's aggravation... and I'm sorry his drysuit won't get paid for... but diving without DAN insurance makes little sense. M...

Huge bummer Matt. Fighting with an insurance company can be almost as painful as the incident! As a new diver considering DAN, I'm now having second thoughts.

Oh geeze - makes me cringe just watching! Amazing technology, do you suppose they will come out with one that will work on chisels?

In my case most injuries could be avoided if the nut at the end of the tool were tightened.

Welcome scubapug - sounds like you and your BF have a lot of potential dive buddies to choose from - maybe we need to pick a day with decent exchanges and meet in Newport? :grouphug: Aaron, I think I met you and a tall (and cold) dive buddy on a Bandito charter/Whites Fusion demo a couple weeks ago?...

That's a great link, thanks!

Hmmmm, I'm still trying to grasp the concept of having words like "favorite" and "country music" both in the same sentence. Ok, I'm probably a bit weird but while I don't like country music I do like bluegrass. Does that count? If so Alison Krauss would take every slot.

Enjoyed your video, thanks for sharing. The viz looked good - no algae bloom?

I might be interested in your lp 98 if it will it take a yoke converter plug?

Gorgeous photo's, thanks for sharing!

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Yes, imagine to have time to dive all of the jewels of that area. I had a quick peek at only five of them .... :blur:

That trip is definitely on my "to do list".

Jan, what program did you use to create your collage with?

Thank you all for kind words, I am glad you enjoy my feeble attempt to share what Browning Pass has to offer. If that, being a feeble attempt knocked my socks off, I can't imagine what an all out effort would be! The collage of photo's with hand illustrations and narratives is wonderful! Like someo...

I'm considering an external flash for my sealife and you've all brought up points I hadn't considered.

You people are such a wealth of information; Thank You!