'Billy Mays here!' even after death

When you've got a pitch as good as Billy Mays, death can't still your voice.

The bearded TV commercial pitchman who died of a heart attack June 28, "returns" in a new Mighty Tape commercial, the last he recorded for Media Enterprises, a marketing company based in Trevose, PA.

In the new commercial, he's seen, underwater, in scuba gear using the ultra sticky product to repair another scuba diver's air hose.

The commercial will begin airing July 20...[Link]

Remains Made into Reefs

You can spend the afterlife under the sea and help marine life at the same time. The state of Texas has even allowed it to happen off the Texas coast.

Steve and Ally Brandt of Austin were married for more than eight years.

"Steve was a very passionate man," Ally Brandt said. "His chosen profession was a swim coach."

When Steve passed away last October, Ally helped fulfill his wishes.

"Steve had indicated that he wanted his remains in a reef where people would want to go visit," Brandt said.

Ally contacted Eternal Reefs. They help rebuild the ocean's eco-system with artificial reefs.

"What we do is take cremated remains, mix it with a little liquid concrete and add it to the rest of the concrete going into a mold to make an artificial reef," said Eternal Reefs founder Don Brawley.

Reef balls can attract marine life within weeks of being placed on the ocean floor...[MyFoxAustin]

Scuba pioneer helped popularize undersea sport

During the early days of scuba diving in the 1950s, Elmer Munk was so awed by the dazzling that he eventually quit his office job and opened a dive shop to share the undersea world with thousands of future divers.

The Venice resident, who was among the first class of diving instructors to be nationally certified by the YMCA in the 1950s and went on to train more than 3,500 divers, died Dec. 29, a week shy of his 77th birthday.

He suffered from lung disease in recent years, his family said. "Diving has been the great love of my life..." he told the Herald-Tribune in 2004. "It's an amazing world down there."

One of his favorite sites was the turquoise waters off the island of Bonaire in the southern Caribbean. He brought so many of his dive students there over the years that island officials surprised him by naming a dive site after him -- Munk's Haven -- in the 1980s.

"He's one of the few people who has logged more than 6,000 dives," said his son, Jeff "Chip" Munk of Lyman, Wyo. An accomplished underwater photographer, the elder Munk amassed a collection of more than 5,000 photographs, some of which won national awards...[HeraldTribune]