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No, I'm miffed at your having lied to me and put me in a situation where I have to put my own neck on the line. There is no inherent question of ethics in diving with a contraindication. If you dive alone, there can be no ethical question because ethicas is about relationships between people...

First off, I do think that people who want to dive should be allowed to dive if they are able to do so. Second, if there is some medical contraindication, a doctor hasn't cleared you, and you don't tell me, I'm gonna be a little miffed if something goes wrong. That is simply not the case if...

I have a halogen blackwater 3000, not the HID, but have been real happy with it. Quality is good, and service has been amazing. I had a switch flood on a night dive and they replaced the whole setup. It took less than a week IIRC.

I'm shooting the Rebel XT, but it should be similar. I set ISO to 200 most of the time. I shoot RAW also, so I haven't worried about WB. For macro, I was using the 100mm and dual 125s. I had them on TTL, and put the control on the back of the housing to manual, and used that to change the strobe...

I don't know about the regs, seaquest stopped producing their own line a few years ago. The computer is a very good suunto computer. It is air integrated, so you don't need anything else (Analog backups would not hurt in case of a problem, but if you check your battery prior to diving you should...

I just got back from Grand Bahama. From talking to everyone at the dive shop, no one has cattle boats anymore because of the tourism hit after four hurricanes. You might be able to dive with UNEXSO and have a pretty open boat. I dove with Xanadu because I used to work there. We had between four...

I have the 5503.51 for my Canon 17-40, and I think it is slightly shorter than the 5503.50. As far as I can tell that is the only difference. I do know that when I started looking, Ikelite did not have the .51, which would have been last fall. My guess is that there was some demand for a port...

#5503.... Lens length less than 3" (7.6cm) #5503.50 Lens length less than 4" (10.1cm) #5503.55 Lens length less than 4.5" (11.4cm) #5503.80 Lens length less than 5" (12.7cm) #5503.85 Lens length less than 6" (15.2cm) This is from Ikelite's website. The difference is the lenght of lens that can...

Hope you have time to bail out to OC before hurling. I have always taught keeping the reg in the mouth. I worked with an instructor who had an incident invloving blueberry waffles at Casino Point on Catalina. He suddenly got sick at depth, and did not stop until well after he surfaced. He...

I too shoot the Rebel XT in an Ike housing. As has been said, you need to decide on a lens first. The 10-22 seems to be the popular choice, though I am shooting the 17-40. My reasoning is that I wil probably move up to a full frame sensor and won't be able to use the 10-22. Also, my dad already...

I know some divers who go crawdadding in a lake, thought I can't remember which one. I think it was four hours or so out of LA. They go camping for a weekend in August, but I don't know if they are still going every year or not.

Holy Mackeral!

The 40 foot reefs the dive boats go to is about 10 minutes from the beach at Port Lucaya. Any of the dive shops should be able to get you to a location in that amount of time or less for snorkeling. A depth of 40' is usually between a few hundred feet to half a mile off the southern shoreline of...

You could try using a plain red light. From what I have witnessed and heard, a lot of animals that live underwater do not see the red wavelength very well (maybe not at all?). I don't know if the camera would have trouble focusing with red light, I wouldn't think so. White balance might also be...

I'm not positive, but I think the only way to use the DS125 with the 8000G is to use the strobe as a slave to the internal flash. IIRC, the Sea & Sea uses IR to trigger the external strobe. As long as the Sea Arm uses 1" or 1.25" balls, it should be possible to mount the DS125. I have a...

A couple years back I was told by a TSA guy that silicone grease residue can set off their test for explosives when they swab a bag. I wonder if the dessicants might do the same, and they removed the dessicant to be on the safe side. When I travel with dive gear, I request they open it in front...

I will add my 2 cents as a former shark feeder in Freeport, and someone who has done limited research the subject academically. The sharks that we fed did not show up every day as Mike notes, though there were usually at least one or two around in the afternoon. The sharks fed normally at night...

Coolpix 995, Ikelite housing, DS-50, SS-100a. Just got to shoot it in the Channel Islands last Monday for the first time in over a year.

There is one just south of ForFar, off Kamalame Cay. It is in the reef just outside of the channel marker there, maybe 200 yards IIRC. I was last there in Feb. 2001, so I might be a little off. There is an engine block in the middle. We called it "The Amphitheater," and there was a bouy that I...

Check the DAN Dive accident and injury reports that are released each year. You have to be a member to download them as PDFs, they can also be purchased from DAN as paper copies. They are the most detailed you can get if you don't want to compile all the data yourself...