majka (05/19/83)
There are other divers out here! I guess it would be a good time to give this newsgroup a blast of (hot) air. Demography will certainly follow geography for a scuba group, but it would be interesting to know where everyone else is. Any North Atlantic divers out there? (my old swimming grounds were the Bay of Fundy) - Southern states? Great Lakes? California? Pacific North West (or South West if you live in Canada), Arctic? Europe?? Australia??? The old quarry down the road???? I began diving in the Bay of Fundy (cold, poor vis, tides and currents that could wash you to Newfoundland if you didn't watch it, little marine life - except for the Great Whites that the fishermen seemed to bring up all the time, BUT incredibly good scallops). Diving in B.C. is very different. Still bloody cold, but the marine life is fantastic (although the scallops are not the same). Speaking of bloody cold, I am about to replace my wetsuit with a drysuit. Can anyone out there offer any advice? Money is no object (just look in my wallet - no objects). I've been looking into getting a Viking suit. It seems that everyone has good things to say about the Viking, but nobody owns one. Is this because they are too expensive, too cold, or just that they have not been on the market (for sport diving) for very long? I realise that many of you dive in warmer waters than chilly B.C., but just imagine your last ice-dive, and you get the idea. - Out of Air - Marc Majka UBC Lab. for Computational Vision