Mike, When I read your email I immediately thought of Ocean Kayaks which is a premier manufacturer of fishing kayaks... but their web site is, hands down, the worst I've ever seen. So I did some more searching and found a great web page describing diving from SOT kayaks: http://www.scubadiving.com/training/basic-skills/kayak-diving which seems pretty interesting. A Google search for "dive kayak" brought up the X-factor dive/fishing kayak which is another SOT in poly that seems pretty useful. Ocean Kayaks are pretty popular among kayak fishing folks and often find their way to craigslist and eBay so you might want to keep a lookout for those. In order to search craigslist for something you can search several areas at one time with searchtempest.com ... it also comes up with some eBay results too. My wife and I used to dive a lot... mostly snorkling but we were both certified for SCUBA 25 years ago and did it a lot. I still prefer snorkling on a nice reef in warm water but not much of that around here. Good luck, Craig Jungers www.nwkayaking.net www.bigboxbikes.com On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Michael Orchard <mspadorchard_at_comcast.net>wrote: > Is there an ideal diving kayak. One that is light wt, has a seaworthy > hull, sit on top boat, efficient to paddle and move through the water, and > has space to store the usual judicious amount of necessary gear: tanks, wt > belts, regulator, an anchor system, bc device, etc. Plastic tub style boats > don't cut it... and are really not all that interesting, or fun to paddle > imho. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Oct 30 2011 - 18:41:30 PDT
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