Hi and welcome Steve!

Sorry I had to bump into you here and not in the Blue Beyond as your dive buddy in some unspoilt tropical location - yep, I am/was a scuba diver!

Where I live we have southern ocean currents, so I'm a semi-drysuit kinda girl, as no doubt you are in Lake Michigan - if not a full-on drysuit guy!

The best diving I have ever done is on the WWII wrecks in the Pacific - the best being the SS President Coolidge in Vanuatu - awesome beyond belief!!!

Oh, and the shark feed dive - where I was like the proverbial German tourist (apologies to any Germans reading this!) - "sharks not big enough, not enough sharks circling - only 30-40 - dive too short" - it was such a privilege to be in the water with these amazing creatures up close seeing them doing what they are here to do - predate lesser organisms!)

I would rather being be hanging with the fishies anyday... laugh

WRT the NSD - *what they said* - keep it strict, test, test and test with your trusty iodine bottle until you are flying solo, and ask here if you need guidance.

Louise

Happy to be a physio by day, not happy to be a Spondy 24/7! wink3