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Great one!

Great one!

If you have a new dive mask without a glass lens such as plastic (e.g. Aqualung “Sphera” mask), then don't use toothpaste as it is too abrasive and will render the surface dull and slightly opaque which would be disastrous. Instead use car polish…

From the early days: you spit in a mask with your saliva, swirl some seawater around inside the mask, then tip it out and put on the mask and you will never have any fogging problems. New masks often have mold release agent on the glass which promotes…

Is it working?

Vlanik sent a reference to his early gun, here it is:

Hi,

As you know the foot pocket rails have specific qualities as far as shape, stiffness (measured in the Shore scale) and how well they bond to the epoxy saturated carbon surface using Cyanoacrylate glue. I'm not familiar with the rails you're using.…

Great! I’ve never get an AP, I wish i do someday.

Hi Dan,
I know it's been a while since there was any movement on this topic. But I have a query over the T-rail that is used to hold the blade to the foot pocket tendons.

Brief: - I have a pair of C4 Falcon Blades in Medium with Mares Pockets.

My…

Maybe the prettiest one i’ve seen, congrats to him.

I want to try Whangarei, New Zealand at all.

That was pretty nice video..

Interestingly in the large format display posters announcing the then forthcoming DVD release for the “LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN” the “Nautilus” is depicted on the poster as a stylistically embellished Type XXI submarine with golden "Art…

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Well the first submarines were pretty small affairs accommodation-wise, so Verne was extrapolating what he already knew and creating an exciting background narrative to his tale which millions have read and marvelled at ever since. In…

I always thought it was a flaw in the narrative/unrealistic how capt Nemo had the whole crew basically hidden away in such tight living quarters (not enjoying everything the ship had to offer as in library , the organ etc.) so the story could focus on…

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I think that goes for most of us. I saw the Disney remake of the film as a small kid and looking underwater through a dive mask was for me an absolute fascination. Even when my first such experience was over a sandy bottom in the calm…

The first submarine was invented before Jule Verne authored 20 thousand leagues.. he was inspired by it. My favorite book as a child rivaled only by Tarzan

The link to the 1916 silent movie "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". youtu.be/QsrXuyjci7U

Actually the "Photosphere" was a creation of Williamson, not Williams as I erroneously stated earlier, a father and two brothers combination as before I was just relying on memory of reading about their work over maybe 10 years ago. Here are two…