On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:25:45 +0100, Andy Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Regarding what I said about WORLD-WIDE dive locations that might
fit "XXX is where I'd like to dive before I die" or similar wishes

>>>>Andy, you have unwittingly proved my point!  Mull?  FUC 6.4!
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>>I forgot to mention "Salsette"!  :-)
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>Which incidentally was voted the top UK dive by DIVER magazine

Figures.  :-)

>last year, it really
>is a sexy wreck, something like 300 portholes in a line :-)
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>>>>BUT, you got me there on a technicality. :-)   I should have said,
>>>>not anyone "non-endemic to those local regions in Europe" (ob scuba
>>>>and marine biology on the use of the term "endemic" :-)).
>>>
>>>Or it could be put,'most members of the largest dive club in the WORLD
>>>love diving there'.
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>>I didn't know that about PADI!   :-)
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>Forget PA$I, it is the BS-AC :-)

I knew that!  Mine was intended to be a NED remark.  :0)


>>>Now a night dive on the Thistlegorm in crap vis. with no other
>>>divers about is my idea of heaven!
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>>To paraphrase a well-worn saying about meat and poison, "One man's
>>heaven is another man's hell".  :-)
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>>You've done pretty well in the REAL Heaven though -- even though
>>there were TWO of us (besides the DM and skipper) on the boat on
>>those dives -- the Barracuda and the Maracaibo , after all of the
>>other Coz99NEDfester had left.  He who dives last, dives best?  :-))
>>-- Bob.

>Yup :-) ....but if only there were some decent wrecks in Coz !

It USED to have a "decent" (depending on one's perspective <G>)
25-30 fsw airplane wreck dive there, one that survived Hurricane
Gilbert in 1988, Hurricane Roxanne in 1995, ..., and a few others,
but finally blown to pieces by the wave action of the propeller
of a cruiseship (while people were diving on the wreck)!  :-)  You
should have seen the inexpicable stains inside their wetsuits.  <BG>

BTW, I read elsewhere that you and your Tart (whom Sue and I met
in the mini-London-NEDfest with Kat and Huw in January) have
FINALLY decided to tie the knot after about ... 8 years (?) of
procrastination, on 7/7/2001.   I had already told Kuty that is
a lucky day for us too (trying to entice Kuty into signing up
for that week) because Sue and I will be diving the Cayman
Aggressor IV on 7/7/2001, staying in Cabin #7.  :-)  If I didn't
know your Tart is not the liveaboard type, I would have suggested
you to have you UW wedding on that week!  :-)

My belated congratulations to a wise move on your part.  :^)

I'll have a Kilkenny on the Cayman Aggressor on 7/7/2001 for you! <BWG>

-- Bob.