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[chinacat46]

I see you have 1392 posts on this board, since March this year!. Don't you have a life?!!

I guess not but I have been diving in Belize, Turks and Caicos and Wakatobi so far this year so I did find something to do between posts. May make it down to the Keys for a long weekend before Thanksgiving too.

[dive_addict]

Another place I'd love to dive but haven't yet been to is the wrecks off the Normandy beaches. Most are shallower than 100', and because of strictly enforced French rules about not taking things from wrecks most are intact.

Do the French require a diver to obtain any sort of permit or permission to dive the Normandy beaches? I've never thought about diving there. Normandy would be a very interesting dive destination.

[WreckWench]

Hey guys...great info on diving in your part of the world! Anyway I can entice you to copy the same info over into a new thread under our "Where in the World" section? That way others can appreciate it as well and I can gauge how many folks might like us to plan a trip there. CC is right...WW definately LOVES wrecks!

And since I just got my drysuit this month...I'm getting ready for cold water destinations! And just so you know...due to time restrictions before an upcoming wreck trip to NC where I wanted to dive my suit at depth, I watched the video and read three books, I then had an abbreviated private drysuit course, and finally did several open water shallow dives before taking the suit to NC with me. I was a bit nervous about my first deep dives with the suit but found if I burped all the air out, I could still descend head first for the first 20-30 feet which is my typical style, right myself, add air to release the squeeze and then descend the rest of the way feet lower so as not to invert. (I initially had to put so much lead on so that I could descend at the surface feet first that I was so heavy I thought I was going to give up on the suit if I didn't figure something out that worked better. Fortunately I did and ended up with only 16 lbs of lead using a steel 95 in a 5 mil compressed neoprene suit which fits like a glove and I love.)


Thanks again for ALL the info in this thead. I've been reading it repeadly! And don't forget to copy the info on diving Scapa and other sites into the Where in the World Forums! Thanks -ww