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    Scuba anyone?

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    • goosehdG
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      The reason I asked is that you always see a bar tack or some sort of X-stitch for reinforcement on nylon webbing?  Always wondered why and if it's due to stretch and potentially weakening in the webbing itself.

      I also wonder given the environment that you'll be using it would be cause for potential problems if load bearing.  Might be fine for attachments…

      One of those why do they do it kind of questions...

      "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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      • GilesG
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        I'll stick a couple of IH rivets through it if I get worried  🙂

        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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        • GilesG
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          @goosehd It works…..

          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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          • GilesG
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            I don’t carry a camera, I like to concentrate on surviving in an alien environment. But I’m pretty good at spotting shit, and Hemi my friend is brilliant at capturing what we find….

            Nudibranch

            Ribbon eel (Moray eel family)

            Leaf Fish

            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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            • goosehdG
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              Those fish? are beautiful!!

              "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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              • GilesG
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                @goosehd I've updated the post 2 & 3 are fish.  1 is a Nudibranch which means naked lung.  The family is massive and it is a delight to find new ones (to us)….

                https://www.google.com/search?q=nudibranch+bali&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB940GB940&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM25SilMn6AhVBRUEAHU8PBjAQ_AUoAXoECAIQAw&cshid=1664975393645290&biw=1527&bih=782&dpr=2.2

                "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                • GilesG
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                  Ghost Pipefish….

                  Porcelain Crab (for reference, the carapace is no more than 1cm across)…

                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                    Those are pretty freakin amazing!

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                      Another Porcelain crab….

                      Another Nudibranch

                      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                      • goosehdG
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                        Love these pictures…so Giles, you ever had crabs.... 🙂  Hope you're enjoying the trip!

                        "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                        • GilesG
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                          Yes actually.  University in the late 70's….....

                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                          • goosehdG
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                            😃 😃  30 years ago…I had just started dating Laura, lived in Ottawa Canada and had friends who just returned from Baltimore, Maryland.  They had brought back some blue crabs for a big feast and invited me.  I phoned Laura to invite her to come along and asked her "have you ever had crabs"....still laugh about that one today.  🙂

                            ...note: probably not a good question to ask someone who you've just started dating.... 😃

                            "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                            • GilesG
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                              Ha….

                              About 25 years ago when I was in corporate life, I went to some sort of business seminar.  I sat down next to some random guy.  As I settled down, he leant over a whispered in my ear, "Got rid of those crabs yet Giies?".......

                              Turns out he was my roommate for my first year at Uni, we had not kept in touch, but he sure did remember my travails....

                              "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                Frogfish…..

                                Seahorse

                                Mantis Shrimp

                                Nudibranch

                                "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                  Cuttle Fish

                                  Nudibranch

                                  Crab (carapace 2mm across)

                                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                    More Nudibranchs….

                                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                      Pygmy seahorse - yeah it's effing tiny….....

                                      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                        I can’t imagine how difficult it is to get a shot like that,or for that matter,any of the insanely beautiful pictures you’ve been posting.

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                                          None of them mine of course 🙂

                                          Harlequin Shrimp (about 1cm carapace)….

                                          Mantis Shrimp, my favourite reef-thug.  One of them hit my pointer stick yesterday and I felt the jolt, and the things are no more than 3" long….

                                          Factoid (stolen from the web).....A mantis punch arrives with the acceleration of a . 22-caliber bullet, 50 times faster than a human eye can blink. Underwater, the low pressure bubble left in the wake of the punch collapses upon itself in a burst of light and heat, reaching an estimated 8,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

                                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                            I know that you didn’t take them but as someone who has ,at times,attempted underwater photography, I know how difficult it is. For starters the fish aren’t exactly posing, and your operating under water in a current. Add that to maintaining neutral buoyancy etc. And the list goes on.

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