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HurlyDiver - 7/21/2008 11:55 PM


As a former shop owner, I can’t begin to tell you how bad the local shop needs US to need them! To me a dive shop is not like a store in the mall where you go in get what you need slap down your credit card and out the door you go. LDS’s are a gathering place to make new friends and have fun! Its a place to tell stories and learn for old time divers and newbies that are making new era mistakes and living to tell about it. Dive shop’s are typically run by very low paid and hard working people. There is so much behind the scene work that most people never know about.


I dont mind paying a little more that I would online knowing that its going into the pocket of my local merchant putting food on their table. When I need something in a pinch....where can I get it same day???Where else...the LDS.....if they go under....we all loose ....


Like Greg said, go in...introduce yourself....go tell a story....go buy a book to continue your education...even if its a magazine...after all....EDUCATION IS POWER !!


DIVE SAFE !!


-Gary Hurlbut


 PADI M.S.D.T 85170