On Wednesday, November 29, 2000 6:10 PM, Jeff Kell wrote:

> > I'm intending to go diving again on Saturday!  :-)

> Well, I *could* go to the mudhole they call the Tennessee River, with
> near-zero viz, and air temps this week maybe 50F (but now near 0C
> outside, at least I can convert that one in my head), river barges
> and tugs overhead, just for the hell of it.  But I think I'd rather
> back-roll off the Walnut Street Bridge first (a long way down and very
> likely fatal).

It hurts me to tell you this, but it's close to 30 deg. C. here and the
water temp's about 20 deg. C!  :-)

This morning synchronicity was once again at work.

Following my navigational debacle during our recent trip to the Great
Barrier Reef - and having just writing and submitted a story about it for
the Feb/Mar issue of Asian Diver Magazine - I received a 'phone call from
the manufacturer of a device called the "Sonic Seeker".

An Ozzie invention that was taken up by Uwatec and marketed as the
"Neverlost", it's a neat little unit consisting of a small sonar buoy and a
hand-held receiver that guides the diver back to a vessel.  Supposed to have
a range of 300-metres it's been loaned to me to run a test on this week-end.

The manufacturer wondered why I fell over laughing when he asked me to try
it.  "Me?  Need a device to navigate my way back to a boat?  That's an
insult."  I nearly said - with an image of me trying to board the wrong dive
boat still fresh in my mind!  :-)

I'll let you know how it goes next week - assuming that I find my way back
OK!  :-)

Strike