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What appears to be a funnel cloud on the horizon as I leave the harbor on Sat AM, Feb 26th.

Map showing my approx heading as I took the photo. My boat would have been at the tail end of the long arrow.

This photo was taken by someone in the Huntington Beach life guard tower on Sat AM, Feb 26th. We DID see the remnants of a water spout!

Octopus in his den surrounded by the shells of clams that he's eaten

The octo is reaching for the camera.
We almost always have good octo encounters at Buchannon Reef.

3-4' long swell shark trapped in a lobster trap. I set him free!

He did his best to bite me as I set him free. I tried to get a look into his mouth to see what kind of teeth he had, but he was so aggressive that I just had to let go and back off!

I don't remember if I sent you this previously, but here is a photo of a burst 80 cu ft aluminum tank. Two clever young individuals ran a part-time hull cleaning business somewhere in Florida. Their tanks got beat up, and they were going to have them repainted. Someone had the bright of idea of having them powder-coated instead of painted. The powder coating process heated the tanks up to 400 F or so, and of course fully annealed the aluminum alloy. Days later, the first guy had his tank filled, it failed, and blew out the rear of a dive shop. Luckily the tank was in a water-filled bunker and no one was seriously injured. A few days later, the second guy took his tank to s different shop, except here the compressor operator was allegedly holding the tank between his knees when it failed. Supposedly he lost both legs and other "parts". I participated as a witness in the metalurgical analysis at Atlas labs in LA, where reps from Luxfer, US Divers, various insurance companies, etc. The material turned out to be dead soft & stretched like taffy in the tensile test machine.

I've been keeping an electronic dive log for years that I fill in after I download my computer. Sometimes it takes me a few days before I download and I forget some of the details. I decided to start keeping a paper log in conjunction with the computer log but I couldn't find any that I liked. I made a custom one with check boxes to make entering my commonly used configurations or parameters a little easier. You can download a MS Word version here or a PDF version here.