On Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:06 PM, Kuty wrote:

(snip)

> What?
> You were diving in 18C with a 1 MM suit?

Only because I was expecting the water to be 23 plus deg. C - as it has been
for the past month or so - and we were only planning on the one dive! :-)

> This is damn cold.
> I would have aborted the dive.

I couldn't do that!  I wouldn't have been entitled to any Tim-Tams
afterwards!  :-)

> >It was an enjoyable 74-minutes - but I still couldn't wait to warm up
under
> >a cold shower! :-)

> How can you call this enjoyable?  Sounds like extremely cold to me.

Had we not been finding such interesting critters to photograph and look at,
I would have, 'cause it was!   :-)

The small ( 5-6mm) shrimps that we saw in the sponge, we've now identified
as Amboin Shrimps (Thor amboinensis).  They're bright red with white
splotches and "hold their abdomens in and tail in an almost vertical
position and flick it up and down."

> Sounds like a nice dive though :-)

It was - but today, I'm taking the semi-dry! :-)

Strike