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Hello All, We would like to thank all of those that have supported HB 54. It has passed through the House of Representatives. We would like to extend a very special thanks to Dr. Jim McClendon, the bill's sponsor in the House. Without your continued effort it would not have passed. Now on to the Senate. Thank you to Cam Ward our sponsor in the Senate. We now need everyone to support HB 54 in

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The discussion over diving rights in Alabama continues and the Legislators are aware of the continued misuse of state time and equipment by the Alabama Historical Commission to fight the legislative process. Please read this article from the Alabama News Reporter that further explains this. HERE IT IS AGAIN  CLICK THE BLUE HIGHLIGHT BELOW TO READ IT =====>>  Article from the Alabama News

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My sons and I have helped introduce a new bill in the Alabama Senate, SB-81, that will make the current law easier to understand. The public currently has the right to find isolated underwater finds, but some professional archaeologists and their cronies at the Alabama Historical Commission have misled some law enforcement officers into believing that it is illegal to find and keep isolated finds

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Sen. Cam Ward, R-Alabaster, has introduced a bill to amend the Alabama Cultural Resources Act, a law that requires underwater explorers to get a permit from the Alabama Historical Commission before going after submerged wrecks and relics.  Read the news article here at AL.COM: New Alabama law could mean finders-keepers for historic artifacts found underwater Here's a copy of the bill

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Happy New Year Divers! This time of year we all get cabin fever at The SCUBA School so we start booking lots of trips for the upcoming dive season. We already have about a dozen picked out for the next seven months and are accepting deposits now. We will set up others as well but this is what is available so far. Sign up quick so you can get the trips that you want!

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http://www.ssdsupply.com/images%5Cdc1400.jpg (width: 330px; height: 313px;) Axiom i3 We have been receiving tons of equipment for the Christmas Season. We are very well stocked now and much of the equipment is 10% to 20% off from now until the end of the year. Most of the Aqualung Buoyancy Compensators are $50 to $100 off including the brand new Axiom i3All of our air integrated

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http://www.ssdsupply.com/images%5Cnovflounder.jpg (width: 480px; height: 320px;) Here is Spencer, last weekend with a 5.5 inch perfect Megalodon Tooth! http://www.ssdsupply.com/images/spencemeg.jpg (width: 480px; height: 269px;) Spencer again with a Cobbs Spearpoint that he recovered Hello Divers, Since our last newsletter, we have had several great adventures with

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Hey everybody! Steve recently returned from Alaska - his 19th year gold finding. This year he has written up a journal for us to enjoy. Great picture & great stories. Enjoy! Alaska 2011 requires Adobe Reader (you probably already have it)

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On Monday Oct 10th, Steve was on an internet chat sponsored by Butch Holcombe, Publisher of American Digger Magazine and co-host of Relic Roundup Butch says:  Steve Phillips will be our guest live to talk about his successful gold prospecting, his knowledge of Selma Arsenal artifacts, and his fight that resulted in Alabama’s dive & archeology laws being changed. Steve has spent many year

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Hello Divers,Well things have slowed down a bit at The SCUBA School since our last newsletter.  We are not teaching as much as we were a couple of months ago but are still taking groups diving every week somewhere when the weather allows.  As most of you know, many of our longer vacation type trips are on luxurious live-aboard diving yachts.  We already have two of these scheduled for 2012

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Hello Divers, We have a lot of news to tell you about since our last newsletter.  This has been our busiest month ever here at SSDS.  This mainly is because of you, our customers, that purchase your equipment, travel and training from us.  THANK YOU!  It also has to do with favorable sea conditions.  In the past three months we have only had one day of canceled diving due to bad weather.  This

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Ron Smith diving on The Oriskany two weeks ago Hello Divers,   Normally, June is our busiest time of year at The SCUBA School.  Last year, because of the oil spill, we didn't have much going on at all but this year I believe we are making up for it.  As you read this newsletter we currently have three group trips at the same time.  Mark has a group doing a couple of days of wreck diving in

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http://www.ssdsupply.com/images%5Csmallflag_bar3.jpg (width: 562px; height: 11px;) Here is an article, as well as some opinions & rebuttals from this week's newspapers. We've also added a couple more emails from concerned Alabamians over HERE.  Please call your state senators & ask them to support Alabama HB-104!YOUR VIEWS: Bill puts Selma's, Alabama's Civil War artifacts at riskYOUR VIEW

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Hello Friends, As most of you know, my sons and I travel to Montgomery a couple of days each week.  What we are doing there is working to pass HB-104 to make it clearer for law enforcement to determine if divers are breaking a law diving in the navigable waterways of Alabama.  Some of our opposition this week were handing out flyers to the Senators with statements that I am happy to respond to.

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Alabama has been hit by the worst natural disaster in my lifetime.  When something like this happens anywhere in the world, people like myself and many of you want to help and don't know how.  We can always give money to organized charities, but not all of that money goes to the ones who need it, and takes too long to trickle down to them.   Let me tell you about Alpha Ranch.  Gary

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We've received a number of great responses from our post of a few days ago regarding HB-104 where we asked you all to get involved. I've taken the liberty of including some excerpts HERE. Thanks for getting involved, and keep it up! Make sure you ask your senators to Support HB-104. Tell them who you are and where you live. Please be clear in asking for them to Support HB-104. Please do this now,

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Many of you read on the front page of the Birmingham News Tuesday about a change in the law in Alabama that concerns you. We are trying to pass HB-104. My sons and I have been working with Representative Jim McClendon for almost a year to fix a problem that we still have in Alabama that concerns divers, prospectors, historians, dive stores and operators, archaeologists, artifact and relic

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Hello Divers, We have just returned from another international dive adventure.  This one was to the Honduran Islands of Utila and Roatan.  For this week of diving we privately chartered one of newest and largest dive Liveaboards in the world, The Utila Aggressor.  Our group of 18 spent this Spring Break diving the various reefs, sea mounts, and wreck dives.  On one dive site, Cara A Cara, we

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Hello Divers, Mark and Forrest have just returned from our Crystal River, FL trip.  The weather was beautiful, probably too beautiful.   When it is warm outside the Manatee disperse quickly.  We spent most of our time out of the water in t-shirts and shorts.  The group was able to spend a lot of time in the water on SCUBA in King Spring in Crystal River and we even did a two hour drift dive down

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Hello Divers,Today the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department Dive team which is headquartered at Southern Skin Divers Supply got to do  some diving up on the Warrior river. Here are some photos from today and the BMW SUV that was recovered. The water was a balmy 54 degrees. This past November, Tom Massie (host of The Outdoor Channel's Gold Fever), came by The SCUBA School while filming a

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Hello Divers, Happy 2011! One of our new year's resolutions, is to start a real blog and clean this place up some. Starting today, all new current events and our newsletters will be posted here for your viewing pleasure. We'll slowly get the older stuff moved over, but you can always view it here in the meantime. We also hope to take you diving even more this year and will soon announce many two

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