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That's why I only use AMEX for travel. Never had any problems with denied transactions. Visa and Mastercard have repeatedly left me stranded without being able to pay for anything. Those cards insist on sending you a text message to approve the transaction, which doesn't work when you're on a...

How is that? Last autumn I booked 5 flights directly with the airlines from the USA online with the Batik and Lion. No problems. Simple. Change a flight? Simple. No problem with the Batik and Lion apps.

I become a baby again every time I pee or poop in my wetsuit. That's why I like diving.

Ah, perhaps we have a misunderstanding. "Visual Inspection" to me in this context (Scubaboard) is a scuba inspection. I can imagine that hydro facilities have their own protocols for checking a cylinder before performing a hydro test, but their inspections are completely unrelated to a scuba...

Learn to feel subtle pressure changes in your sinuses. Use your dive buddy for safety, close your eyes while hovering about 3-4 feet off the bottom, and try to stay level in the water column with eyes closed. If you're in a group, one person can act as the primary depth monitor. The rest of the...

Nope Never once have I ever had to do a "visual inspection" before dropping my cylinders off at AirGas for a hydro. NEVER

False. Hydros are done by commercial gas facilities that deal with all types of commercial gasses and cylinders. These facilities are not scuba businesses, and they wouldn't know anything about a scuba inspection. Scuba visual inspections are specific to the scuba industry and are performed by...

NEVER use a third party (e.g., Booking.com or Airpaz) to book travel, hotels, airline tickets, etc. When something goes wrong, you'll have to deal with the third party instead of directly with the airline, hotel, etc. DO NOT ever use a third party for anything travel related.

WILD Indonesia is incredibly poor and filthy, but the diving is incredible when you get away from the ocean trash near land. I don't enjoy muck diving in a sea of discarded diapers.

I thought of that, too, when I first started in tech. But every time I seriously made the effort to contact real estate agents, head hunters, etc., I reminded myself that in Florida I would have to deal with 3 unacceptable things: 1. Hurricanes 2. Bugs 3. Floridians

Hydro, if done the old way of filling the tanks with pressurized water in a water bath, is going to get the inside of your tanks dirty. After hydro, tanks need to be cleaned and inspected to ensure there is no debris, gunk, or corrosion inside. Whomever says tanks don't need inspection after...

Doesn't cut through steel Can't get the sparker to work underwater The flame won't even stay lit underwater I wonder what I'm doing wrong

I'm a dry caver, vertical caver, and cave diver. I had enough spare parts to make a whole new carbide generator, and I'm pretty handy in the shop, so I made an old-fashioned carbide cave diving light. I specially modified the generator body and reflector head for cave diving. I made a custom...

I've been rec diving ScubaPro Go-Sports for a couple of years, been around the world with them. I find them to be okay for warm water single tank diving. They're floppy in stiff current (Maldives, Indonesia) and I waste a lot of energy in the back kick. I would welcome a stiffer version of the...

I am sad. My wife and I, and many of our friends, have stayed at SCC at least 20 times in 20 years.

Two of my friends tried to book with SCC in early and late October. Both were told SCC is shutting down at the end of this month.

Scuba Club Cozumel is closing at the end of the month

They're dash 110s

That's the most ridiculous thing I've read on this scuba forum. My experiences with GUE proves they have a bad attitude with no quality control, all the way to the top of the organization.

Nothing wrong with the "DIR" philosophy. It should be the industry standard. "DIR-minded" divers are typically safer, more skilled, and more reliable divers than the typical divers who were trained by the big names like PADI. The problem is most definitely the assholish attitude of GUE divers...