[ricki]

I try to cut bugs some slack myself these days. Still, there is lots of good info in the article listed above, good things like divers flag offset distances, etc..

What is with the mortality rate during mini season anyway? Lost two today as of this hour, more may be on the way. Not talking about lobsters but about all the people?! Rates are down because they shifted the season to midweek. Still, guys are taking themselves out. If you have been out of it for a while, have let your condition slip too far, why not blow off mini season? Get back into shape, have the old ticker checked out and if all is good have at it again. Take precautions when it comes to boats cause they are gunning for mini season divers too, sometimes with the diver's help. Then again for all the wholesale raping and pillaging of bugs in this special event, perhaps it is Mother Nature's sense of fair play kicking in?