You're making me hanker badly for a Mexico dive trip--though all of my experience is Yucatan peninsular. I'd love to hear more about where you're diving and what it's like. And I love a good eel tale--plus, I think morays feel like oiled velvet. I've enjoyed your winter's postings. Have a safe trip north.

Hummm, I suppose this isn't a real help but if you don't want to make a huge investment there is a black and white underwater camera and monitor on sale for $99.00 in the recent Harbor Freight flyer. I have seen it there several times. Better quality and color are readily available at much increased prices from other companies. Until last year, there were several posters who delighted us with their videos of fish and frogs above and below the surface of the water. I miss seeing them. Sandy

Love your photos! I have a large natural bottomed pond that's filtered through a planted area. It's stocked with koi and many native fish including Bluefin killies,redbreasted sunfish,albino channel cats and some swordtails.I've snorkeled in it several times but never taken videos or photos. The neighbors built a two story house that kind of overlooks it, so I stopped snorkeling.I'm 50 years old and should maintain SOME dignity!LOL

I'm not familiar with that particular model, but I had an Olympus C4000Z, a very underrated little camera before I got my 20D. Once I learned where the sweet spot in the lens was and some tips, I got some wonderful photos with it, won a contest with two of them. Some of their models are better than others. I'm really impressed with the 8080. A professional photographer in Iraq uses one, but it's only 3X zoom. I was thinking of getting it for a backup camera. Do your homework, and you'll be fine. Before I bought each camera and the ones I got for my daughters and grandson, I read and read and asked a zillion questions and kicked it around for months. The net is the best source of information. Few people in the world out there know much of anything about digital cameras, even the camera store salespeople in some cases. On my 20D I got some things dirt cheap when a major computer online retailer broke into the camera market, had great discounts and coupons they threw out on the net plus rebates. They don't deal with Olympus, mostly Canon and their deals aren't so good any more. If you can afford it, I wouldn't have before, but now I would not hesitate to recommend a Canon or Nikon dslr with the interchangeable lenses camera to anyone. A few basic settings and you can use it just like a point and shoot digital camera and then grow into the more advanced features. A lot of people like the Panasonic FZ series, but I have never been too impressed with them although they seemed to have corrected some of the fringing. I just didn't think they produced that sharp of photos and the color was nothing to write home about, but some people love them. Some of the Kodaks are pretty nice, too, as well as Fuji. Oh, I left out Sony. They had serious problems with one, DSC-F828, rushed it to market before they got the bugs out, but I have been impressed with *some* of their models. Some I would advise people not to buy certain other ones. You might want to look at the specs for the Canon Pro 1. It doesn't have such a powerful zoom, 5X optical if I remember correctly, ignore digital zoom; it's worthless, but has a wonderful lens and color. My granddaughter bought that one and gets wonderful photos with it. I have seen some posted by others that have blown me away.