.<SNIP>
> BTW, I would strongly recommend against leaving your mask with a land
> based resort dive shop to store overnight.  Most tropical locations have
> large cockroaches that just LOVE to nibble on the tender, tasty silicone
> edges of a mask.  ...and you just thought that the skirt of your mask
> was just wearing out from use. :-)   I have also seen no evidence that
> the little critters like the masks doped with carbon (black) like the
> frameless.  Does anyone else have any experience with these bug's
> culinary preferences with regard to silicone type (clear or black)?  In
> any case, it's best to keep the mask in your room.
>
I had them eat the blue exhaust valve on a Sherwood regulator at Athens
Scuba Park on summer's night.  I dont think they are very fussy
and I got a mouth full of water.  OW students must have thought the DM was
crazy sitting on a sunken jacuzzi breathing on the octo and taking his
second stage apart.

CH

.