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                                    Dave Lawrence  - AbyssWriter 
                                    
                                      Mechanicsville VA 
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    Joined On: 10/31/2011 
                                    Last Login: 10/29/2016 
                                    
                                 
                                
                                    
                                    
                                        Experience:  Advanced 
										
                                        Looking For:  Dive buddy - just friends 
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        Company: The Dive Shop Richmond 
                                     
                                 
                             
			                
                            
                            
                            
                            
			                
                            
                            
		                 
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            I’m a low-budget diver. I spend most of my time in a quarry Lake Rawlings Scuba Park where I help with scuba classes (in my divemaster role) and do ecological research (as a consultant for the quarry management). Occasionally I manage to find my way to more exotic locales, such as rivers and sinkholes in Florida, wrecks in Bermuda and off the Outer Banks, and isolated islands in the South Atlantic (Ascension).
One of my most exciting dives was the U-352 off Morehead City, N.C., a wreck I realized I had written about in my first book (Upheaval from the Abyss), and which I flooded my first underwater camera on. I learned from the U-352 that salt water is kind of rough on camera parts and film emulsions.