[xsrdx]

at the school in the city of Eindhoven, about 70 miles southeast of Amsterdam.

I'm guessing that one would need to wear more than a pair of Speedos to Scuba in the North Sea....

I've done some cold water diving in Northern California - Monterey - 45deg water in a wetsuit is cold enough to shrink your (eye)balls - but I'll bet the North Atlantic is just a whole 'nother kinda "chilly".

A far cry from the balmy Red Sea for these guys, so it makes sense they weren't there to practice fish ID.

[aristeides]

I think Eindhoven is on the Rhine, not the North Sea (see A Bridge Too Far. Lots of nuclear power plants (and bridges, of course) are on rivers in this country.