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It is in Europe almost impossible to do teaching as a fulltime job. Or you need to have shop and/or filling station, or you must be very very lucky that this is possible. But is not being a full time instructor a problem? I have done course with full time instructors and with just...

Backmount is great in the Lot, I agree. But you are allowed to do a cave course without specific sidemount course. This is at the instructors discretion. But for some divers a sidemount course prior to a cave course is a good idea ;) And yes, France is a nice place. But not too much alcohol...

I would say go to IANTD, and do it in France, then you can do intro to cave and full cave for less than the price of just cave1. And I know the prices in Europe as I teach cave too. You can do it in backmount or sidemount, no fundamentals or so needed. If you want to dive the mines in German...

Have been to Curacao, did 1 solodive in the morning around 4 a.m. with 2 tanks. Came back around 6 am, then breakfast, then 2 tanks in a car for 2 single tank dives, and then back and 1 dive on the housereef again. After that preparing the tanks for the next early morning nightdive. (jetlag...

In Europe skiing is also not cheap, but not that expensive. You still can find a week accomodation, including bustransport from the Netherlands and a 7 day skipass for around 1300-1500 euro. It is not that 800 anymore that it was 10-12 years ago. A skipass for les 3 Vallees was when I was...

No, we didn't queue with snorklers. I don't know which divecenter we used, I arranged it in Moalboal and they organised transport, the diving in Oslob and a boatdive. Divers can go in when they want. There are some diveshops in Oslob, so you don't have to take the snorklers way.

Yes let put divers on ecmo to dive. ;) But more seriously, there is already a lot research done about possible consequences of the WOB of a regulator. 1 of the things they think can contribute (together with cold water) to IPE is the wob. A ccr breaths heavier than a normal regulator, even the...

exactly. And some divers will say yes and amen during a course and then after the course do a big middle finger and do what they want because they have their cert. But also if a student does exactly what an instructor teaches, if the diver after a course never practise things again, learned...

I talk about a real camera (with strobes and all the other ****), not about a gopro. I have seen divers who took this directly after a course in a cave. Further I don't say that diving without a cave cert is a good idea (no, it isn't), but I can understand why people do it. And this is because...

I don't know where to save money. If you don't fail a course, even not if you progress directly, this means you can do the dives on the higher level if you want directly and have more fun. But you ALSO have the option to do the dives on the lower level. There is then a choice. There are no...

Divers not ready, that is what I agree with. But this is also something you cannot avoid. I have refused some divers too, but then they went to another. So there will always be an option to get a card. (or print it yourself, I have really seen a fake CDS cave instructor card). And yes, maybe if...

With intro to cave you can do T's, this is navigation on the mainline. They call jumps 'complex' navigation. I believe TDI had in earlier days (don't know nowadays) that T's were not allowed in intro to cave. I see it quite a lot that people do first intro to cave and then 6-12 months later...

Maybe, but it is how humans are, they do sometimes stupid things. Nobody can ignore or deny it.

That is true, but also not true. I see here in Europe that the cave1/intro to cave limits are broken in less than 5 dives after the course. Or it are the gasrules that are strengthened to 1/3, or it is the deco, do a jump, or they take an extra stage cylinder to get more bottomtime. This is...

I use Ikea Ladda already for years.

A new battery in it will not solve your problem. I have my second D5, first one stopped working under water in less than 2 years with the words: fatal system error, contact your Suunto dealer. Then I got a new one under warrantee. So far so good, it is working. But BOTH show in the morning 10 or...

Riverdiving is teached in Europe in Swiss near Verzasca for example. So there is a specialty programm for it. I don't know what you will learn that you cannot figure out yourself, but I can tell you that diving in some rivers is really fun. I cannot help you with options in Florida, I have only...

Garmin offers more for less money. The descent 1 can go to 100m depth and is now under 400, and can do trimix and ccr, AND gives you FREE trainingplans with one of the 3 Garmin coaches up to the half marathon and you can import for a full marathon from Garmin. Also is Garmin connectable with...

These are the blacktips from the beach, not a really good picture, you see them snorkling, but it is impossible to get good pictures then. The sharks swim away and swim all around. But there were quite a lot then.

I am just back from Moalboal and Malapascua. Have dived with sharks, no swimming. It was really great. We have done: -Whaleshark diving in Oslob. You can also go snorkling, but with diving you have no hurries and get time enough -Diving to see the treshersharks on Malapascua -They went after the...