You must have had a very interesting Saturday. You forgot all about Sunday. Itās Monday. LOL
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hours ago it wasnāt 
Good afternoon Mollyā¦ Good afternoon everyone 
Had to kill an RCB x Conspiracy Kush earlier todayā¦ Surprisingly, the one I had been taking for a male seems not to beā¦ so far
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Maybe I was the one that had a rough weekend. LOL
I donāt pay attention to anything until my second cup of coffee. 
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The buds my kids get are just like those, hard as a rock.
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@ShiskaberrySavior i been eating some cannatonic lately for pain relief from the seeds i got from you. i wish i was able to do a proper pheno hunt on them but i had to move and lost all my clones. i was able to keep 2 that survived though and am momming them to do a larger run for some lotion and cookies. it takes all my pain away like magic and helps me relax and just enjoy some rest. the only problem is the initial sativa effects lmao i ate half a t spoon and waited an hour nothing ate a full t spoon hour later it all hit me and i could not sit stillā¦ i cleaned my entire grow area my whole basement and bathroom. had way to much was a little to much head buzz but unlike non cbd that would last for 5 hours like that it subsided in about an hr and then came the blanket feeling no pain and yawns every 20 minutes. just wanted to give you an update and say thanks. hoping this makes some day time gummies in future once i dial the doses down.
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Great to hear it works for you hopefully your clones can give you more medicine .
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Soā¦ 5 years ago today this happened:
What does it mean you ask?
Well, when you take your Divemaster course (for scuba diving), its usually a 2 month long course. I did mine on the island of Utila, and got heavily involved in a group there called āPumpkin Hill Beach Cleanupā. Ya see, the northern coast of the island is virgin, never built on, as wild as it was 500 years ago. And yet its FILLED with trash that floats in. So I started volunteering for the cleanup crew. Every saturday night I would recruit people for the sunday morning cleanup, and did so for the 2 months of my divemaster course. Well, PADI came to the island, and did their annual goals speech at a forum (which was environmentally friendly practices that year), and my DM mentor and the dive shop owner went to the forum. My mentor comes back from the forum and is like āWe have watched you tirelessly recruit people for the PHBC, and want to know if you would help us setup our own beach cleanup program here at Underwater Vision?ā
uhā¦ Hell to the YEAH I would!
So, we added it to their DM program. Potential divemaster candidates MUST attend 2 beach cleanups in their time there to graduate as part of their professionalism scores. That picture is of the āDivemaster Boardā, which has all the Divemaster Trainees listed down the left side, and 40 or so skills / requirements across the top. As you complete a part, its marked off on the board, and this board is in the dive center where everyone can see.
The column for āBeach Cleanupsā is there because of ME. 110% ALL because of ME! Yes, I will tout my own horn here because NO other dive center did that before, and more are jumping on board with the idea now. (6 dive centers on that island alone now are doing it!)ā¦ The dive center owner said they watched me, a foreigner, push and push to get people to attend (my highest # of recruits was 21!!), and our adopted beach, Big Bight Beach, looks AMAZING today. The first time I saw that beach, it was nothing but plastic, driftwood and garbage from the waters edge to the edge of the jungle. You couldnāt take a step without kicking 5 plastic bottles. And I mean LITERALLY. You couldnt see the sand. It was disgusting and heartbreaking.
Today, all the driftwood has been burned in some awesome beach bonfires, all the trash collected and removed (though the sand is loaded with microplastics, I dont think youāll ever get them all out), it now LOOKS like a sandy beach once again, AND sea turtles have returned and are nesting on it now!!! Every sunday the dive center (5 years later) STILL goes there and does maintenance cleanups. BECAUSE OF THAT COLUMN!!!
I know it may not seem like much to many of you, but the ocean is special to me. Seeing trash floating in the water at Jack Neil Beach the first time I went there, when I couldnāt see a house, building or other sign of humans other than our boat, and I saw trash, I was crushed. What can one little person do I thought? And it was overwhelming. I returned 2 more times to the island before I started my DM class, and thats where I got involved with Pumpkin Hillā¦ I felt as if at least I was making some small difference by attending, and even more of a difference by recruiting. Well, now, 5 years later, and over 250 cleanups strong, knowing that I got that column put on the board? Wellā¦ A little guy CAN make a difference and have a pretty big impactā¦ Imagine if we ALL were that little guy nowā¦
Yes, its a moment I am super proud of, probably more so than when I graduated college or even bought my first home. Its an achievement I never dreamed possibleā¦ 
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Youāre a shining example and pillar of the OG community @Nagel420 
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@Yetigrows
Finished watching The peacemaker yesterday brotherā¦
It was everything you said it would be 
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Thatās very inspiring! Congrats and keep it up 
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Thatās a fabulous achievement and such a beautiful thing!
@Nagel420 youāre such an open hearted Good soul! I appreciate calling you my friend! Job very well done! Toot that horn! Well earned! 
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That is outstanding!! That is definitely something to be proud of and share as an example with others. There are a lot of truly inspiring people on this forum. Your one of them
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That is outstanding brother 
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You inspire us to do moreā¦
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I had my junior advanced open water when I was a kid and looked it up on padi website it still shows up but Iām old now. I guess I would have to recertify to get a new card? The only part I remember being hard the first time were the dive tables I barely understood that. Iām sure everything is on your phone now or more high tech. I looked up the island itās in Honduras, looks pretty but not much there. I learned to dive in very brackish water with bad visibility and it was cold. The first time I went to florida I couldnāt believe it. I saw sharks, they left me alone. I went on a night dive and got lost haha. Itās been about 20 years or so I would love to go again but just havenāt been there or any place like that in a while.
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PADI records are pretty good, so you would definitely need at least a Refresher course. If you have a certification, its for life, but most good dive ops want you to recertify if its been a while since your last dive (1yr or more usually). A few hours is all, just to refamiliarize yourself with things reallyā¦ Not a 3 day courseā¦
Dive tables can be very confusing, for most! Even I used to struggle. When I learned to dive in 1996 thats all there was, then PADI came out with a calculator thing, like a little pocket calculator, ERDP I wanna say is what it was called. Worked ok, but not great. Easier than calculating from tables, but ya still had to learn to use that thing instead.
Nowadays, dive computers are the thing. Phones donāt play much part at all surprisingly, thereās some cases made for them, and quasi dive computer setups with them, but really, even the best phone is a shitty dive computer. I have a Suunto D9Tiā¦ $1400 for the watch / tank transmitter (ya dont need to do the wireless transmitter, but it makes things WAY easier and does MUCH more when the computer can read your PSI). Your dive computer can be watch worn, or in your console, and all DMās have em, and most divers do, and ops even rent out / loan low end models. Can easily keep an on your no decompression time, with alarms, etc. Calculate your gas levels / surface intervals / depths, with a few clicks, plus keep a history of several hundred dives.
Most people are familliar with Roatan, as theres an international airport on that island. Utila is the tiny next door sister. Utila is a younger crowdā¦ But there are a few of us older peeps there as well. To give you an idea of the party feel, this video was shot at my dive center there the year before I went. Some of it is during Carnival (street scenes), but the rest of the song / video is pretty spot on for the island if you ever spent more than a week there 
Not many sharks in Utila, I think Iāve seen maybe 8 there in well over 100 dives there. But I did get to swim with Whale Sharks there a dozen times! THATS a cool experience. Big as a school bus!! Cozumel, MX is where weād get lots of nurse sharks, and occasionally black tips / reef sharks off the walls. Hammerheads were rare at both locations but people did see one on at least one of my trips (just not me 
) Same for turtles, way more in Coz than Utila, but Utila gets me with its primitive feel, its smallness (6km x 4km island town is like 1km x 1km). But the coral coverage in Utila is amazing. Water clarity at both is over 100ft most days.
Night dives are freaking amazing, especially when you get to see bioluminescence and biofluorescence. I LOVE night divingā¦
You should do it again. I had 20 years off myself, certified in 96, then didnt dive again till 2015ā¦ Just like riding a bicycle. Then I went on to advanced, rescue, dive master and now instructor 
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Wow thanks for that.
The only computer I remember using was my dad had his own equipment, bcās and regulator, and the regulator had a computer of sorts where the gauges are supposed to be. I never used it so didnāt know what all it did. I remember I always had more air when the dive was over. My step siblings are cig smokers and depleted air very fast, and my dad stupidly went as deep as possible the whole time which boylās law it makes the air more dense and you go through it.
I dove in Florida and the Bahamas a few times and it was amazing like you say 100 ft visibility. The deepest dive was 80 feet I was terrified. But learning to dive the first few dives were this place my instructor called Braille lake (because it was hard to see like being blind and needing braille.) It was a lake in a neighborhood behind some town houses.
After that my next training was a quarry which was much bigger so I could practice navigation and went down to 60 feet, but it was freezing. Thereās an airplane and a school bus sunk in it which is pretty cool to dive around.
Then I got to go to the keys and Nassau and Freeport and some other smaller islands or cays in the bahamas.
I did a shark dive that I will never do again it was so scary sharks everywhere and this divemaster in full chain mail suit fed them and pet one of their bellies. She said they were carribean reef sharks. They were huge at least 30 of them. I found out many years later that my step sister was on the rag at the time, I definitely would not have gotten in the water if I knew that.
There are some dive stores near where I live that do the training maybe I can ask them about getting recertified. Hopefully weed smoking hasnāt changed my abilities too. I also learning in 1996/1997 and have been smoking lots of weed since then.
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Wouldnāt happen to be Dutch Springs, PA, would it? LOL, I did my OW checkout dives there. 7mil wetsuit and it was COLD. And that was the last time I dived in a full 7mm wetsuit! lol this boy likes warm water diving
LOL, same as the ones today do, calculates all your dive table info 
LOL. On the console meant it was air integrated, so it was reading the PSI as wellā¦ I am also a smoker, and thereās a measurement called your SAC rate, Surface Air Consumption Rate. Let me give you two scenarios. Both are a 2 tank boat trip.
Boat 1. Smoke my last cig before getting on, 45 mins to get to site, 1 hr dive, 1 hr surface interval ON boat so no smoking, then another 1 hr dive.
Boat 2. Smoke before getting on, 1hr to site, 1 hr dive, 1hr surface interval where we docked at a pier on the southern part of Cozumel, and I could grab a cig or two. Then another 1 hr dive.
There was NO denying my air consumption is better on boat 1. EVERYā¦ SINGLEā¦ TIMEā¦ By my second tank I hadnāt smoked a cig in nearly 3 hours. Carbon monoxide in your blood REALLY drops off, and your SAC rate gets better. If I snuck a cig in on a surface interval, my SAC rate for both dives is the sameā¦ Thereās undeniable science and proof that smoking hurts my bottom timeā¦ Iām smart enough to realize it and not say it doesnt effect me, just need to finally quit thoughā¦
I was originally certified in 96 as well, so no, years of smoking wont change your abilities LOL All good on that frontā¦
Havenāt done a shark feeding dive yet, I kinda prefer the more natural encounters. Best natural encounter was playing with Dolphins for 45 mins off of Teds Point in Utila When they are wild AND they stick around cause they are curious about us, its awesome!!!
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Congratulations @Nagel420 toot your horn loud and proud, I never understand people that throw their trash on the ground. Lord knows theres tons in the ocean. I donāt live by an ocean but if I did Iād be picking up trash with you.
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On the island lots of that trash comes from the mainland. I interviewed the former mayor of the island, Alton Cooper, who explained it to me, and sent me videos of municipalities that were inland, but on rivers, that just back up garbage trucks to the edge of a river and dump. It gets rid of their garbage there, for sure. And a lot of organics just get absorbed back into the ecosystem. But the plastics float to sea, and eventually come ashoreā¦ On the island they have their own ādumpā and burn trash, but they recycle the hell out of thingsā¦ Reuse whatever they can.
Some of the most common things (other than straws, yes there are tons of them), plastic cutlery, the balls from roll on deoderants, styrofoam (thats the worst, it gets smaller and smaller the longer its out there at an exponential rate), flip flops, sneaker soles, and plastic bottles. thousands and thousands of bottlesā¦
I dont live by the ocean at the moment either, but Iāll volunteer a few hours a week whenever Iām there even if it was just vacationā¦ Thankfully the jersey shore isnāt too bad these daysā¦
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Is that you sitting on the hood of that car cuz?
lol I might seem a bit uncaring by not commenting on your ācleanupsā. But weāve already discussed this in our DMs so I have known and commended you on this privately.
If the good folks here wanted to see some of those awesome 360degree videos youāve shown the wife and me, is there a link to them for public viewing?
I was asking about you and the car because itās nice to put face to a person I deal with a lot lol
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