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Welcome to NC ;-) It seems the mentality changes as you come south across the NC/VA border (although AFAIK Nags Head is better) and come into the warmer water... it can be challenging to find both boats and fill shops that don't try to hold your hand excessively. > Just got back from North Carolina where we dove the wrecks off of > Morehead City from the dive boat Pelican. If you plan on diving there, > this is the boat to take. No hassles on profiles or checking your gauges > when you get on the boat. Warm water (80F) and over 100 feet of vis. Wayne Strickland down in Southport is also very good about this (he is you taxi, not your mother). Thanks for the charter tip on MHC, hadn't yet found a service there that did't try to think for me. As for the fills, Olympus used to be much less anal that that (hope this was an isolated incident), but the guy I knew there has left, and as it happens I haven't been back since, so I wasn't sure how they were to work with now. Discovery OTOH has had rumors for the past several years about nitrox and asking people to drain their tanks (even tho one employee recently insisted this characterization was unfair), so I stay away from them like the plague, but that was made easier by knowing that Olympus was more cooperative. But just as a counterpoint, Branford Dive Center (in Fla) required me to put one of the large ugly green nitrox stickers on my doubles last time I was down there even tho I already had a small mix/contents sticker on them. They said it was for ANDI's sake. Seemed silly, and looks like sh*t, but at least I got the fills. Mike -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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