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We went from Boston to London, and spent a week exploring London. Then we flew London > Paris > Sri Lanka > Male. We only fly business class nowadays, getting too old to tolerate 16 hours in economy or even economy plus. We arrived in Male well rested and feeling good. On the way home we...

No. The Red Sea may be one of the world's great dive destinations, but the negatives far outweigh the positives. I've been around the world twice, visited 50 countries. Egypt ranks up there with places like Pakistan as one of the stinkiest and filthiest and most disgusting countries I have...

I never jump in with my camera. The impact and water backlash can damage the camera or open latches. Once I jumped in the water with a full size Nikon in a Nauticam housing. The water impact popped open the housing latches and the $2,400 camera flooded. Get in the water without your camera...

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Good plan. I recommend renting all of your equipment until you've been out diving and see your options. Gear is expensive, get a better feel for what does and doesn't work for you before buying anything. Don't cave to pressure from your local dive shop. From day #1 I absolutely HATED the...

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I have an Oylmpus TG-6 and only shoot video. That camera eats batteries. I have to change the battery on the boat after every dive. I've been around the western Pacific, equatorial Indonesia, and South Pacific, and never had my housing fog after a battery change. I rinse my camera and then dry...

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All natural-light video.

We saw some mating Mandarin fish. A group of 4 photographers surrounded the fish for about 15 minutes, laying on the reef to get their photos. No one else got close. On our first day of diving we saw about 20 Thresher sharks. Then a bunch of dive boats came in for Easter week and the sharks...

I made a 5-minute video of our trip to Malapascua Island. We spent 3 weeks traveling to Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, and the PI. We met friends from Europe in Singapore, and we all flew together to Cebu for a week of diving on Malapascua.

If the weather is bad, you might not make it out to Osprey. Big swells can make for a really rough ride. I did 10 years in the Navy but the rough ride out to Osprey made me seasick. But once you are there... unforgetable.

We stayed a Ramons for 10 days. All very advanced divers. The DMs called every dive at 40 minutes. I routinely finished my safety stop with 1,200 psi. My wife always finished with more than 1,500 psi.

A related question: do you consider diving dry to be an essential part of tech diving? To me, wanting to get into tech without learning to dive dry is like saying you want to become a racecar driver but you don't want to get glasses to correct your vision problems.

Twenty years ago, we went to Coz for the first time, two months after hurricane Wilma. The divers were all angry and upset, saying that the hurricane destroyed the reefs, and it was so bad that they were never coming back to Coz. For us, it was the most gorgeous diving we had ever experienced...

A GUE instructor once put me in a oversized wing for doubles. Due to tacoing, it was very difficult to shift air to stay trim and not roll left or right. It is not fun spending your entire dive battling a roll.

Good to hear. When I was in the GUE-F class, they started talking about the "class handout" and all these formulas that I never saw before. The GUE instructor said it was my responsibility to figure out how to get these handouts BEFORE the class started, and to master the material BEFORE the...

Three hour dives in Tulum cenotes and caves will make you wish you had a dry suit. Get proficient in a drysuit.

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