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From: "Reef Fish" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 20:24
Subject: [SCUBA-SE] A MX-10 macro question


> In 2000, on the occasion of my 1000 dive in Coz, I "planted" a gold
> chain (a real, but expensive one) on a black coral at 218 fsw, at some
> location in Columbia Reef with the notion that I could retrieve it if
> desired (as I had done so once before with a piece of perosnalized
> 1-lb lead.
>
> Since 2000, I had looked for it several times without success, not
> finding the exact features that would help me locate such a spot, at
> 218 fsw.  :-)  But TODAY, the features look right on descent, so I
> went for it again, and was so sure that I had found the right ledge
> that spent a minute of two at that depth looking through the black
> coral branches where it might have been hung.  Alas, it wasn't there.
> So, I'll have to make another try some time, under more ideal
conditions.
I'll be glad to help you look for it, Bob......

but, as Strike might say.....

it's your shout on the helium....  :-)

Steven