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(I sent this out once, but it seems to have hit the list right after the entire subscriber file got dumped... My apologies to anyone who gets a duplicate.) tompharm@ix*.ne*.co* wrote: >Texas Tower is well dived, not real interesting, but with guidance >worth a couple looks. Lobsters make it worth the effort. I find that learning the history behind just about any wreck makes diving it interesting, whether I can bring anything home from it or not (not to mention making it even easier to find things to bring home -- I don't believe a wreck is ever truly "picked clean", you've just got to know where to look). Lots of different things make dives interesting for different people. Some techdivers have even been known to spend *entire dives* just looking at pretty fish or wet rocks... :-) > Question for our computer experts: how can we load diagrams etc. to >spead the knowledge around? For instance, I have dove the tower and >recored my own "best approach." I wouldn't mind sharing with someone >one the list- serious divers all- the fruiits of my dives. Diagrams and such can easily be scanned and shared through email, ftp archives, or web sites. I'd advise against attaching any sort of graphic images to techdiver list postings (or any email, for that matter, unless the recipient is expecting it). Some people have to pay for disk storage and/or download time for email, and graphics attached to email will quickly eat up a lot of both. A nice bonus to using computers for this sort of thing is the ease with which drawings can be changed and updated -- I have some plans I've scanned in and modified to show what we actually found on the wreck, which walls are now missing, what openings are blocked, that sort of thing. Next time I go back, I print out the modified image to take along for reference. Similarly, we could have a diagram which is updated and annotated by a number of net.divers, and then reposted so others can compare the different information and approaches to diving the wreck. For wrecks in the NJ/NY area, I'd be happy to host this on my NJ SCUBA web site. I can take images in electronic form and post them; I can also scan paper documents. I don't have any way right now of limiting access to just list members; if that's a necessity, we can work something out (though I don't know how much use that would be since the techdiver list and its archives are already open to the public). It's understandable if people don't want to post deck plans and such for public consumption. It's also pretty simple to take out a lot of the detail in images like that, so the basic outline of the ship, for example, could be used to point out general areas of interest without revealing _all_ of the "good stuff" :-). --tab -- Tracey [Baker] Wagner tab@pa*.co* *** NJ SCUBA Diving Info at http://www.panix.com/~tab/scuba.html *** "Far beneath the sea, the past and the present come together as one, and we have been allowed to touch them both." -- Brad Sheard, _Beyond Sportdiving_
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