>
> Steve, you have my deepest sympathies. :-))

really twas a beautiful day for diving!

> Your favorite entry point is also my favorite. It's the one that I always
> use, so from now on I will ask everybody I see on the dock if
> thier name is
> Steve. I should be able to meet you someday, probably. ...About that
> ambulance, it sounds perfect for kold weather if there is room to stand up
> in it. It could also be handy for getting yourself to the chamber
> if you're
> bent. ;-)

Actually, I'll make it easier on you.. next time we go (soon I think) I'll
let you know, then you'll have a reasonably good chance of meeting the right
"Steve".  I was pretty sure you were in warmer climates for New Years
otherwise I'd have sent you an invite to this one.

As for the ambulance, at 6'2" I can't stand ALL the way up, but I can stand
up enough to comfortably get into pants or drysuits or whatever...  AND as
members of EMS, Dennis and I can legally have emergency lights and sirens on
our vehicles.. thus the ambulance is still suitbly equipped :-)

> !00 foot vis!!!  Ain't that great ...I mean for Ohio, you know!
> ...I almost
> decided to go tommorrow, then I thought about the temperature.
> :-)  I really
> should fix that hole in my drysuit.

Yeah.. 100ft.  (FFW for Mika :-)  Mike actually cited that number when we
arrived and I called him a liar.  He was right though.. it was better than I
had ever seen it.  You could stand at the deep dock and look down and see
things WAY below...

> To make the penetration a bit of a challenge I used to see if I
> could enter
> and exit the plane without touching anything with my body or fins. It's a
> little tricky making it around the corners. And after that
> becomes too easy
> try doing it upside down. :-))) ...I must be one of a kind, because I swim
> upside down a lot. I do it so much that every time my friend was taking
> video of me in Key Largo, I was always upside down. You guys joke about me
> being late, but Twink (my friend and scuba instructer) jokes
> about me being
> always upside down. :-))

Hmmm.. that sounds interesting.. I'll keep that in mind!

Steve