On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 00:37:52 -0500, Mike Wallace <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

>Just passing through. I see the waters are still choppy....
>
>Hope everyone is doing well......
>
>Mike


Well, blow me down, Popeye!

Good to see you dropping in to say hi.

I had already counted you OUT, when I was doing some mental
head-counting of those who are STILL reading Scuba-SE.

I didn't realize Rednecks are capable of making the kind
of understatements usually attributed to Brits, like 
"I see the waters are still choppy".  :-)

What you are seeing is known scientifically as a "Rogue Wave",
the biggest single one I've seen in the history of this LIST
anyway.


Tell us what you've been up to.  

I have to tell you this true story.   Some years ago, you 
mentioned the possibility that you may be a backup diver
for someone diving the Antartic.  That was stored in the
back of my mind, when somehow Sue had enticed me to watch
the IMAX movie "Explorer Express" or something like that
which I noticed the word "Antartica" in the ad.

On our way driving to that movie, I casually mentioned
to Sue that I wonder if that was the Antartic Explorer
movie which I THOUGHT was being shown.

I wasn't until three minutes into that movie that I 
realized it wasn't going to be any National Goegraphic
Explorer show about diving the Antartic.  :-)

I should ALSO have gotten the hint from the line waiting
to see the movie that adults were outnumbered by kids
by a ratio of at least 10 to 1.  It was a Santa Claus
animation movie, in case you didn't know what that IMAX
3D movie was about.   :-)

But the IMAX 3D "Into the Deep" (part 2) that opened 
yesterday at our IMAX at the Aquarium should be good!

-- Bob.