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Best wishes from Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, USA. God bless you and Maggi

If you want government regulation, by all means encourage idiots to dive without certification.

Great. Could use more cowbell, though.

I, too pray for your wife and send congratulations to you. You did your best, and did, as far as I can see, enough to get the job done. One thing I think I would have done differently (remember, I'm a pro, and my wife wasn't involved.....things get muddy when it's family...) from what you...

Sure you would. If you really need the help, you'll take whatever you can get. She'll probably just get herself killed is all. I'm laughing at the whole boat full of experts who couldn't figure out that her problems stemmed from her inability to equalize the air spaces in her eyewear.....

Beautiful Women Require Adequate Funding

As a SCUBA instructor and an attorney, my two cents are: this situation is exactly why we have professional divers and insurance companies to pay them.

I haven't checked the Standards lately, and I could be wrong, but my understanding is that, unless you're a PADI Divemaster (with insurance), you weren't DM'ing the class, at least as far as PADI is concerned. So, if he was relying on you to increse the allowable student-instructor ratio, he...

I have to agree with a lot of what has already been posted so far. Why lower than 40 feet? In the tropics, some great (and sometimes, some of the absolute BEST) diving is in 20-30 fsw. That said, when vis is clear like it can be out here, you can get to 80 feet and think you're at 30...

I dove the grotto twice this weekend. It was fun. In today's paper, it relates that a near-drowning victim was taken to the hospital, but ends, cryptically, with something like "it's unclear if she's still in the hospital..." I have to think it doesn't look too good for her.

Drunk dude falls off boat. Picked up 5 hours later by a pleasure boat. Meanwhile, rescue diver has reg problem at 50 feet and ends up in the hospital with DCI of some sort. Link below...

I'll take a crack at answering a few of barky's questions. Who should dive at the Grotto? Not trying to be flip here, and no disrespect to the recently deceased, but my answer is "someone who isn't gonna freak out." If you've never been there, the Grotto is a great dive. It is, however...

Can't wait, marpacifica. See you soon!

I've heard both versions, too. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

I have a Cobra, Stinger and D9. Happy with all three.

Congrats! Looks like we're gonna have to start saving a seat on the dive boat for you soon!

Been reading the dirtbag's (ok, alleged dirtbag's) online blog. Seems like he was a scuba diver too.

When diving the GBR, we had to sign in and out of the water, and the boat didn't move until everyone had signed out. I thought that was excellent. Also, I like the idea of getting plastic numbers clipped to each diver's bcd, and the boat doesn't move until all the numbers are back on the...

Lawyer in the tropics. Dive Instructor when I need to get away from the office.

I'm not cave certified, but I would guess that they're fairly pointless there. Other than that, I seem to be in the minority. Every dive, my snorkel is attached to my mask. Just me, though. Whatever floats your boat....