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Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*> writes:
> Anthony-
> 
> The lake I dove in was a green hell. All I could see was green and brown 
> slime as I slowly sank into the bottomless ooze. And that was standing on 
> the bank. My gear smelled like a sewer for weeks.

Eeeuw.  Yes, there are places like that, but one does tend to avoid them.
You need either something spring-fed, ideally through millions of tons of
karst, or something far enough north that it gets the crap frozen out of
it annually.

> No thanks, the Ocean for me.

I've been out on the Great Lakes in raunchy weather many a time, and I've
always been as solid as a rock, but take me out on the ocean even on the
calmest of days and it's pretty much guaranteed I'll be sending my
breakfast in first to check the water for me.  After that I'm always good
to go, but I hate summoning Ulrick like that.

And rinsing gear off after a dive?  Real diving water rinses your gear
_during_ the dive.

No thanks, freshwater for me.  :-)

-- 
Anthony DeBoer <adb@on*.ca*>
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