On Jul 23, 5:23 pm, Dillon Pyron <invaliddmpy... at (no spam) austin.rr.com> wrote:

Like I said, it was a once in a lifetime opportunity to say I dove in
the Marquesas, emphasis on the "once".  What kind of price can you put
on that?

$80 for a 20 at (no spam) 20 dive in The Living Seas tank at Walt Disney World?

But we got to see all sorts of neat stuff that you normally don't see.
And got to spend about 25 minutes topside with the dolphins.

That's cheap compared to what we paid to dive the Maui Ocean Center's
shark tank:

http://www.mauioceancenter.com/index.php?id=6&ss=0&page=shark&content=shark

$199 for a "30 to 40 minute dive" but we also got free T-shirts,
aquarium admission, a behind-the-scenes tour, and a nifty laminated
certificate. No dolphins, but hand-feeding an eagle ray is definitely
a unique experience.

We looked at that one last year, but after "visiting" MMC's ER, it
just didn't work out.  That was, in my opinion, the most expensive 2
miles I've ever riden on a bike.  I looked up the insurance paperwork
on it.  Insurance paid (much less than billed) $3800 for the ER and
follow up here.

We have been to the Ocean Center three times and go every time we're
on the island.

On Aug 1, 10:18 pm, Dillon Pyron <invaliddmpy... at (no spam) austin.rr.com> wrote:

We looked at that one last year, but after "visiting" MMC's ER, it
just didn't work out.  That was, in my opinion, the most expensive 2
miles I've ever riden on a bike.  I looked up the insurance paperwork
on it.  Insurance paid (much less than billed) $3800 for the ER and
follow up here.

We have been to the Ocean Center three times and go every time we're
on the island.

Fortunately we made our MOC dive the day before the eel bite. Not
only were the dive and behind-the-scenes tour interesting, but we were
able to catch up with our friend Jim, the asst curator there, whom we
met as a fellow passenger when we dove Cocos a few years back.
Another couple on that Cocos trip had been married in the MOC shark
tank.

At least the eel bite out of pocket portion was partially subsidized
by DAN as a diving injury. With the broken ankle, even though she was
wearing the wet dive gear she had just walked out of the water with
about 2 minutes prior, and even though there's no way she would have
suffered the same injury had she not had scuba tanks and weights on
her back, since she was on dry land, DAN does not consider that to be
a dive-related injury.

I should have dragged her back in the water
and fed her ankle to an eel.

"Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick" <Pop... at (no spam) finalprotectivefire.com> wrote in
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"Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick" <Pop... at (no spam) finalprotectivefire.com> wrote in
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549241,00.html

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  that successfully defended America on 9/11 was the portion of the reserve
  militia on board Flight 93, acting without orders, without hierarchy,
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These self defined intellectual superiors are coming apart like a
cheap suit.

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-42553620090918

Read the charter, his first loyalty is to the Bar and the crown.

The rest of America, and the illegal immigrants he exploits, are simply
beasts of burden.

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