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I tried never to dive with anyone who brought up their experience or certification level unsolicited. And avoided charters and cattle boats like the plague.

1. Other divers 2. Annoying sea life 3. Other boats visible 4. Reverse blocks

After pricing some trips privately, some dive shops are definitely making a profit on them. Dive shops are like car dealers to me, they run from above board to sketchyAF.

Keto diet is being researched heavily outside of diving and has had some positive effects on neurological and psychological issues. In the end risk/ benefit analysis is likely going to be very subjective. Also reading on HGH possibly being a risk factor for cancer, being studied as the US...

Never saw many worms in the ones I shot or saw in fishhouses. If they were that unsaleable, how did so many get sold and why were so many taken by recreational anglers? Catch and release for other fish deemed inedible was common at the time. Sounds like a canard to me. Amberjack on the east...

Skin bends felt like sunburned skin itch. Middle ear barotrauma had no pain but immediate nausea and vertigo which was horrible for 3 days, was unable to walk well for weeks and took years to completely resolve. I've had joint and muscle pain but due to the amount of work being done...

They walk far offshore in water unaffected by freshwater runoff. Usually after a storm , but also during thermoclines. Males and unegged females will bolt but egged up females will stay put. Seen pods of big lobster hundreds in number two and three deep in every crevice on a reef.

Will there be discounts available for a combo Lionfish hunter/ Master Diver course? AFAF

You can't fix stupid, nor legislate it away. While I don't condone enabling it, it is up to the individual to use their God given logical abilities to assess risk. In the bigger picture, a few divers getting bent is hardly in the same category as being overweight, smoking or drunk driving.

Trying to fit all your above and below water pastimes into too short a period of time is rarely a recipe for amazing outcomes.

So are the adjustable intermediate stops just rebranding deep stops?Anyone see what the range of GF are yet?

The stock may cost that much, but machine time and labor costs would exceed the $500 by a huge factor for a one off and still be over that for mass produced units unless using Chinese slave labor rates.

Hunting can definitely thin populations over a wide area. Gulf , Fl and East coast commercial spearfishermen have told me it's difficult to harvest the same numbers from a couple years ago. We had #300 on one wreck in 2016 or 17. They tell me it is rare to get #50 off it now. Same goes for a lot...

Pretty sure those are kinder than some of the adjectives I use to describe most of the divers I've seen.

Not the lamest card on Earth but in contention. It seems an undue burden to require certification to spear an invasive species when certification is rarely required to spear other species. Sounds like a money grab.

Has anyone mentioned " stroke " yet? Pretty sure it's required at some point.

Good point about the wages, all too often the labor spent trying to save money is worth far more than the savings and comes with no warranty.

Unexpected. Because no one expects the Spanish Decompression Sickness:angrymob:

I identify as elderly when a discount is involved but get around pretty good for a curmudgeonly old codger.

We rarely used tag lines for people or gear unless we had a disabled or elderly diver onboard. Nor did we have the time or patience to let people float around willy nilly. If you are diving so close to edge that 15 minutes of leisure actually precludes DCS, you are way too close to the edge...