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Spent the day at Beneath the Sea, the annual scuba fest in New Jersey USA. Saw a few interesting things there I thought you folks might want to hear about. Larry Coyne was showing the latest gadgets from Halycon. The new inflatable bug bag looks quite interesting, for those of you inclined toward capturing crustaceans,but who are too lazy to haul em up by hand. Both the aquavite pony cluster and the air buddy mouthpiece were in attendance at their respective booths, which says something either about the gullability of todays diver, or the level of security in the Meadowlands exposition center. The various and sundry pizza stained captains were dutifully handing out flyers a gogo ( email me for details about a good boat outa brooklyn), and Miss America, 1992, is somehow teaching children about the ocean,and displaying her spectacular breasts while signing posters. Capt. Dan Crowell led two excellent seminars, one on his recent Britannic expedition with some spectacular video, including footage of John Chatterton diving an Aurora CCR-2000. The other seminar he led was an accident analysis on various Andrea Doria deaths,including the most recent. The evening slide and video show was also quite intersting with some cool fish slides, a neat video showing the damage done by local beach replenishment projects (in a futile effort to combat erosion the corps of engineers is dumping sand slurry,basically sludge into the surf line and devestating the inshore marine ecosystem) but the high point of the evening was when Bret Gillam, who was MC'ing the slide show got chewed out by Jean Michael Costeau because of problems with the video system during JM's presentation about Keiko aka FreeWilly. The show is open all day sunday at the meadowlands expo center in seacaucus NJ, its right off route 3 near the Lincoln tunnel.And I swear I dont make a dime off it. later, Al Marvelli -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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