You're quite the experienced pod person!!! :)

--- Reef Fish <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 10:30:31 -0400, Michael Doelle
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Cannot quite compete with the basking shark
> sightings in UK, but ....
> >
> > .... not content with keeping ailing airlines
> afloat
> >and injecting millions into the faltering US
> economy,
> >the Dive Weasel also found time to have some
> serious
> >fun these last two weekends.
>
> Agree on all counts except calling the following
> "serious" fun:
>
> >FLA dives in total on this trip,
> >all in the Boca/Delray/Boynton area.
>
> BHAhahahaha.  :)
>
> >Andy: Red Sea some time soon???
>
> Wish I could join you guys, except Dubya has made
> such a mess over that
> part of the world and making all 'Merkins PUBLIC
> ENEMY NUMBER 1 in many
> areas of the globe that the Red Sea seems not a wise
> choice at this time.
>
>
> Upon landing at LAX this morning, after nearly two
> weeks out of touch
> with the world, I learned that the Norwegian cruise
> we had booked to
> depart Miami on June 29 had blown its stacks, killed
> several crewmen,
> and the cruise had been cancelled, leaving me
> holding two roundtrip
> tickies to Miami, and diving in Florida (anywhere)
> for a week is
> unthinkable -- I know that'll stir up some
> counterpoints from them
> thar locals who think Florida is the center of the
> universe.  :-)))))
>
> To change my flights to some other dates/times would
> have entailed a
> penalty fee of $400 (by the airlines), so a
> substitute cruise seems
> the only alternative.  Within the last couple of
> hours, a substitute
> cruise on the Royal Caribbean Voyager -- now the
> world's largest
> floating pod-holder of capacity 3400? -- had sold
> the cabin the other
> cruise had put on a temporary hold.
>
> So, on the identical flights to/from Miami on the
> cruise dates, we are
> not booked on the Carnival with ports of call at
> Belize, Roatan, Grand
> Cayman, and Cozumel -- not bad for one or two tanks
> each port for
> divers.
>
> >M the Weasel
>
> Bob DaNewFeeesh


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