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I'm looking at Italy possibly next summer- I'm hoping to get a few days in Portifino as there is a protected area there. From what I've heard from some European divers the Med is badly over fished so there's not a lot of critters to see. Apparently the Greek isles has a lot of wrecks and caves...

Yeh I mentioned in another thread that I recently dove with someone who had done just that- he logged 2000 dives in a quarry on cheap refills at a local firestation. He was the most awkward of the four of us on that dive..certainly in terms of buoyancy and trim anyway. Dive experience is...

From your description it's sounds like a touch of euphoria to me, similar to a feeling I had on a cenote dive last year.

In cooler climes I would say definitely drysuit and rescue. I didn't think much of padi's peak performance buoyancy.

I'm keen on diving Canada's arctic. lt's cool stuff to see top-side as well- polar bears, walrus, narwhals, bow whales... Arctic DIving | Baffin Island Dive Safari | Baffin Island Diving

I dive to depth I feel comfortable- generally no deeper than 40M because that's what I have always been told. I think the BSAC has limits of 50M, and from what I can tell France's largest cert agency- FFESSM has rec limits at 60M, or a whopping 197ft. But then again they invented the sport. And...

I considered DM right after Rescue but after thinking about it- what my goals were, time put in and expenses, I decided I'd be better off upgrading equipment and just going diving. I spoke to an instructor and a couple of Dm's about it and bottom line is I know I never want to teach, provide...

In the 70's after seeing such movies as Jaws and The Deep, since have had a fascination with fish and marine life. Snorkelled a lot in the 80's and finally took the plunge into scuba in 1999. Still trying to figure out why Robert Shaw dove in slacks and button-down shirt.

When I asked an instructor about this- as most of my logged dives were not verified by signatures, he said he would have no way of knowing whether the sigs were real or not -wink*

As mentioned it's a helpful record of your diving for future referral, I also note things I notice or reap from other divers, helpful tips and things not to do. As a personal record I find it fun to skim through and reflect on some of the dives and divers I've encountered over the years. If you...

Excellent footage! Inspiring me to do more local diving.. and to get a new camera! btw- what is the music on this one?

I did it a while back when I decided to get back into diving, and treated it as a refresher and opportunity for some practise before I went on a real dive again. From what I remember we did some inhaling-exhaling- fin pivots, and swam through some hoops and then worked on trim for awhile. I got...

I don't think the majority of people in my course were overburdened though, and I thought the numerous scenarios we did were integral to the course. Maybe they should have an 'Intro to Rescue specialty that is a prerequisite for the full Rescue, that way students would have a few skills already...

Yeh I have a bad back and it's not getting better as I enter what are undeniable my middle years now. I have taken to putting gear on in the water when I can- the dive guys on the boat have always obliged when I ask.

Well it was described to me by my instructor as a course that is somewhat pivotal in the sense that it does provide a stepping-stone to going pro or into more challenging diving. We did much of what you described but I guess it was throughout the course rather than front loaded. I think the more...

I think the title of the OP is unfortunate, but I really don't want to comment on the OP's experience anymore as frankly I don't know him or how his course was really conducted. Personally I would have liked mine to have been more challenging but I still got a lot out of it. It makes you more...

Yes agree about the 15 emergencies in 50 mins seems a lot and had me wondering as well..? Well he described it as 'hell' and a 'hazing' and that he was stressed the whole course, and from what I gather he didn't even have any emergency situations on the second day. I would think an instructor or...

Obviously. And with the scared comment I meant it more metaphorically than literally- ie scared out of his skin. If they barraged him with so many scenarios on the first day that he was paying less attention to instruction on the second then that course structure probably didn't work for him-...

I had a very learned and intelligent instructor both in his diving and day career. In my Rescue classes I received a fair balance of repetition of skills, as well as a solid dose of rescue scenarios followed by discussion and unput from everyone on how people reacted. The scenarios in my opinion...

Such accidents make me assess the sport from time to time, it's especially unnerving when it is somebody who is very experienced and the exact cause remains unclear. I've always approached it as a bit of risk sport just by virtue of the fact that it places a person in such a foreign environment...