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Cards can show a higher level of commitment and interest in diving, but not necessarily so. A good friend of mine did around 1,000 dives while working here in Saudi, and all on a OW card. Oh sure, he was always reading up on all that pertained to diving and all that, but what he was...

Hi there, this is for any expat divers still left here in Saudi Arabia. There are not many left at the moment, but I was wondering if any of you would be interested in forming a group here on the Board? Whether it be for discussing issues of diving here in Saudi, buddying up, keeping up our...

I liked this view. It doesn't matter which acronymically-challenged organisations you choose; if you have a head on your shoulders and listen/learn well, you'll do well regardless of the alphabet soup. There seems to be a variety of agendas that people have with regard to this thread. We need...

Gee, that really makes me want to run out and take the IDC! That was my Peace Corps experience in a nutshell: I was young and independent, lived in an exotic location and had a hell of a good time while earning a crap wage. Sounds like P. Corps and Instructor-life are much the same!

Ingredients: 1 Airline ticket to Mexico 2 each of my best friends 3 orders Tacos al Pastor (with the pineapple) SALSA to taste :beer: Following the recipe ensures the freshest salsa and some Coronitas to wash it all down with.

I'm a Vermont yankee, too--from Brattleboro. Howdy neighbour! Well, distant neighbour, as I'm a little ways from there at the moment.

Well, on Desert Sea Divers' boat trips in Jeddah, they serve up a tasty chicken stew you can ladle on a bed of rice. They call it "chicken curry," but one day I showed them the true meaning of curry when I made a real Sri Lankan curry that had a few people jumping into the sea to put out the...

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Definitely if you're going to be diving deep, you and your buddy should both be taking a pony/sling bottle of some size. I tried a 50 cf tank for my deep dive speciality course, but have settled on a 30 as my preferred size. Small enough that I don't slip a disc getting into the water, but...

Sure you weren't following one of Scubaholic's dive profiles? (Check Accidents and Incidents---if you haven't already). :) Just kidding. Seriously, it's better to have worried and for it and to have been for naught, than not to have worried at all and for it to turn out to be a problem. I...

Wow, the thread that Scubaholic started was entertaining, to say the least. Just having done the EANx speciality myself, the thread in question was pretty wild at times, but informative. I agree with the majority of responders, that ppO2's are not to be messed with. If he wanted to go to...

That sounded like a mild cultural slam. :eyebrow: (Joking...) I believe George Bernard Shaw said that the U.S. and the U.K. are two different countries separated by a common language? To respond, here in Saudi, a fair number of Americans I dive with are quite fluent in metric. It's the gov't...

Just having finished the Deep diving speciality, I've a few thoughts about pony botttles. I think for most rec diving at normal depths (say, 80' or less) a 13cf tank would suffice. At shallower depths, that's still a lot of air, if you think of it. Either in case your reg/tank malfunction, or...

And then there's DCS Barbie, comes complete with her own recompression chamber. And.....oh no! The hyberbaric chamber attendant is Ken, and he's got a score to settle!

Qualquier salsa sin cilantro no es salsa---ni rojo ni verde. = Any salsa without cilantro (italian parsley) isn't salsa---neither red nor green.****

I found Scuba Board while just searching on Yahoo, and gave it a try. It's a fantastic site and I tell all my dive buddies here in Jeddah about it. Nobody seems to know about Scuba Board here, though. Maybe they just don't go to the web for scuba related news, advice...etc. I find it very...

The last thought you DON'T WANT TO HAVE b4 jumping off the boat: "Did I remember to turn on my air?"

Maybe Ken was an airhog, and Barbie got tired of coming up after only 20 minutes.

Hi there, just wanted to know is anyone out there is living/working in Yanbu. Caught the news today about the shootings. If so, I hope all is well. If anyone needs to get away for a few days, give a buzz here or at david_migari@hotmail.com. Take care...