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I placed this post out under PADI (Professional Association of Dive Instructors) Discussion Topics area this morning. Why are Instructors excluded from being a choice for students to select when registering/signing up elearning? a few years ago, PICs were available online except for Instructors. Now elearning is online and ALL Teaching Status Instructors are not listed as a contact for the prospective student. Take the total number of Teaching Status Instructors there are in the database. Divide the number of IRRAs into that number and tell me if the quotent is a realistic number? That number represents the number of instructors / IRRA. It’s over a 100 instructors / IRRA. What is the average number of Instructors / IRRA? Perhaps 10. Why is there such a deviation between the two numbers? Now, take that difference, … Read entire article »

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Scuba Extreme Team Meeting #2

Extreme Team Meeting Notes                                                 September 22, 2010 Thanks to everyone who came out to our meeting last week we had a fun and informative meeting and are looking forward to our next meeting October 27th at the shop from 6 pm -7 pm.  Please feel free to invite your interested dive buddies, friends or family. Those in attendance were Sarah Kopp, Regina Ferraro, Larry Davis, Fred Sills, Patricia and Jerry Mushaben, Blake Cooper, Patrick Johnson, Sharon Wilson, Norine Blanton, Joe Kistel, Gary Clem, Larry Giggey, Dian Schichtel, Zac McClain, John Roberge, Tara and Jason Johns The meeting was started with Gary Clem sharing his megalodon tooth and manatee rib bone which he found in Venice Beach, wearing his fanny pack and doo rag of course.  This started some discussion about planning a shark tooth … Read entire article »

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Scuba Extreme September 2010 Flyer

Scuba Extreme – Adventure Sports and Travel is located in Middleburg, Florida. Here is their September 2010 Flyer … Read entire article »

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Off to Film “The Spike”

It’ 6:30am on a Friday, August 20 and I am waiting for the rest of the gang to show up at Mayport Docks. The sun light is just starting to show itself. Two of the other divers show up around 7am. we setup our gear while we’re waiting for your boat and captain to arrive. At around 7:45am all four of us head out, three divers and the captain, who is also a diver towards Spike. Spike sits about 25 miles almost due east of the Mayport Jetties. It is a very nice day. Almost no clouds and the weather report calls for temps in the 90’s, sea condition show to be 2-3 feet (on the NOAA website) yet other boaters are reporting 2 feet or less with about an 11 … Read entire article »

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BP gets OK to burn off captured oil, gas at sea

By RAY HENRY and BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writers Ray Henry And Brian Skoloff, Associated Press Writers – 1 hr 18 mins ago PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. – BP won permission to start burning oil and gas piped up from its broken seafloor well as part of a pledge to more than triple how much crude it stops from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. Federal authorities gave permission late Monday for BP PLC to use a new method that involves pumping oil from the busted wellhead to a special ship on the surface, were it would be burned off rather than collected. The British oil giant announced Monday it hopes to trap as much as roughly 2.2 million gallons of oil daily by the end of June as it deploys additional containment equipment, including the flaring system. The … Read entire article »

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current Trajectory Maps – BP Oil Gulf of Mexico

  NOAA maintains a current trajectory map of where the BP oil spill is going. Click on the TRAJECTORY link to view. Larry … Read entire article »

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BP Consequences for Gulf Oil Spill

What do you think? What should be the consequences for the catasptrophe occuring off our shores for BP and US Government? Is a companies profits (Mngt bonus’) to come at the cost of our planet and its citizens? Should non stockholder of BP be made to pay for their mistakes of saving a buck to make a ton of bucks for BP, its stockholders? Who is BP being responsible to? Of course they’ll say, the stock holders. The shorting of processes came to save a buck and make even more $$’s just increase profits benefiting shareholders and management. Where did all that shortcuts get the rest of the world, especially all citizen directly affected by the spill? Did BP really make a profit from this catastrophic mess? Now, where did the spill get them and us? Is paying … Read entire article »

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Additional Info/Reference BP Oil Spill

OTHER IMPORTANT LINKS www.MyFloridaCFO.com Congress Jeff Miller’s Deepwater Horizon Hub site Florida Business Survey   CONTACT INFORMATION Report Oiled Shorelines 1-877-272-8335, #DEP (on a cell phone) or 1-866-448-5816, give exact location of oiled findings and and leave a message if not answered. (Important: Do not touch any substance you suspect to be oiled or oil-related. Call in the exact location for teams to investigate.) Report Oiled Wildlife 1-866-557-1401, leave message. Messages checked hourly.     Florida Emergency Information Line 1-800-342-3557     Florida Oil Spill Information Line 1-888-337-3569     Report Boom Vandalism 1-800-320-0519 or #DEP on cell phone     Volunteer Information: 1-866-448-5816     BP’s Paraprofessional Training Class schedule. This is not volunteer training.         BP Claims Hotline and Spill-Related Damage File a claim online or call 1-800-440-0858, 8A-8P, seven days a week. If you are not satisfied with BP’s resolution, call 1-800-280-7118.      BP Services 281-366-5511 To register as a consultant, contractor, vendor, or submit ideas on alternative response technology, services, productions or suggestions.     BP Vessels … Read entire article »

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BP Oil Spill News and Updates References

Florida State Emergency Response Team (SERT) maps for oil impacted areas of Florida Deepwater Horizon Latest News from Unified Command (Coast Guard, Homeland Security, NOAA, BP, Transocean, Department of the Interior – Minerals Management Service) Joint Information Center: http://www.doi.gov/deepwaterhorizon/index.cfm Deepwater Horizon Response on Facebook Deepwater Horizon Response on Twitter | BP on Twitter Live video feed from BP’s underwater camera NOAA Incident News NOAA Updates Fisheries Information (Closed areas updated daily) Hurricanes and the Oil Spill Fact Sheet Deepwater Horizon Oil: Characteristics and Concerns EPA Air Monitoring on the Gulf Coast Federal Whitehouse.gov Deepwater – BP Oil Spill web site Florida Govenor’s Deepwater Horizon Response Actions DEP’s Deepwater Horizon Response Information DEP’s Homeowner Tips for Protecting Florida’s Shoreline FWC’s Area Contingency Plans Department of Financial Services Public Service Annoucements BP’s Florida Gulf Response Escambia County Information and News Updates Oil Spill Response Strategies (PowerPoint) Approved Local Action Plan (LAP) Addendum #1 (PDF) Addendum #2 (PDF) Area Contingency Plan … Read entire article »

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Florida Update information of BP Oil Spill

Fishing advisory issued for Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walto counties Shoreline fishing license is free to residents, beginning July 1  If you plan to volunteer for the clean-up you will need to contact the volunteer hotline phone numbers:  ttp://www.myfwc.com/OilSpill/index.htm. Daily updates on Pensacola Beach can be found on their webpage: http://www.visitpensacolabeach.com/   (Notice the link to sign up for daily oil spill updates from Escambia County). … Read entire article »

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

I am interested in reading posts on divetalking.com from folks living in the areas affected and currently experiencing the BP Oil Spill. Please update this site with your experiences and observations of any areas touched by oil. Watch Live Video of the BP Oil Catastrophe. … Read entire article »

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Tritonshall

divetalking and tritonshall have traded links. Visit tritonshall for articles related to the field of diving and all things related. … Read entire article »

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Sea Sick

Who reading this gets sea sick? I do and it stinks. I love to dive and I love diving and have been diving one score +13 years at this point and as much as I get sea sick, I love diving. So here’s what I’ve tried. I’ve tried Meclizine How should I take meclizine? Use this medication exactly as directed on the label, or as prescribed by your doctor. Do not use it in larger amounts or for longer than recommended. Take meclizine with a full glass of water. The chewable tablet may be swallowed whole, crushed, or chewed. To prevent motion sickness, take meclizine about 1 hour before you travel or engage in activity that causes motion sickness. You may take meclizine once every 24 hours while you are traveling, to further prevent motion sickness. Follow … Read entire article »

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How large is the BP Oil Spill, really?

As of April 20th, 2010 until the oil was no longer monitored, the size of BP Oil Spill may be seen by clicking HERE± … Read entire article »

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Gulf of Mexico BP Oil catastrophe

Dear REEF Members, The Gulf Oil Spill is highly likely to have lasting impacts on wildlife, ecosystems, and people – both locally in the Gulf, as well as regionally in the greater Florida area and possibly throughout the Caribbean. Like you, all of us at REEF have been closely following the news about this unfortunate disaster. While REEF is not directly involved in the response to the oil spill, we are poised to provide baseline data on fish populations in the affected regions if needed. Thanks to the efforts of REEF volunteers, approximately 5,600 fish population surveys have been conducted in the Gulf of Mexico since 1994. This includes over 1,500 surveys along the west coast of Florida, 3,500 surveys in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, and another 600 in … Read entire article »

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