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I recall hearing about a news executive some years ago saying something like "Good news and bad news, for the first time ever the news division made a profit." Good news because all businesses are in it to make a profit. Bad news because once the news stops being treated like a public service...

I think that a lot of places, not only the dive certification agencies will have to rethink their time expiration policies due to this virus, especially if the restrictions go on. For example my car is due for its 10,000 km or 4 month service interval late this month. I am near the 10,000 but...

I grew up in the 60's in rural farming areas of Manitoba. While I was a town kid, my cousins were still on the family farm that our ancestors homesteaded 100 years before that. ( They are still there now.) I was about 6 so my cousin was about 9. We were visiting and my cousin had undertaken to...

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I did not get my still from Amazon but it looks just like this one. Amazon Still Amazon Yeast Just follow the directions on the package. I heat the water so that the sugar will completely dissolve, it will remain in a super saturated condition when it cools, that is there will be more...

I just took pictures of my cards, front and back, and have that electronically on my phone, laptop, tablet. I also imported these into my electronic dive log app and have copies on all mobile devices as well as in my cloud account and on my USB drive on my key ring.. I also printed out these...

Not a diving example but one that shows that people practice what they were taught. I cannot vouch for the accuracy but was told this by an former member of the Royal Marines who was around when it happened. During the Falklands War the Royal Marines suffered an unusually high number of...

1. That level of CO is very quickly fatal at surface pressure let alone depth. A diver would not survive long enough to get to 40m. 2. If it is 1.5% concentration, it will be 1.5% concentration at any pressure. It will be 1.5% in the tank at 200 bar, the various gasses all come out of the tank...

Most of the importing I have done has been by a courier into either Canada, the Philippines or PNG. The couriers are all bonded customs brokers, they add a fee and do all the customs clearances for you and collect it COD. Amazon will ship with prepaid customs and duties based on an estimate and...

2019 Suzuki Vitara. I load everything I need to move around the Philippines from diving place to diving place in it. Great gas mileage, fun to drive and fits on the narrow roads here pretty good. And it has a sunroof as well. I use the sunroof to dump the heat out quickly when I start up...

We have all seen some pretty innovative dive shop logos. My favourite is Cebu Dive Center in Moalboal.

I stand corrected, as a practical mater, I have triple distilled the product and only been in the high 80s. What would it take to get to the 95.6%? Would it ever be worth the additional effort?

I wish I had my still with me. I could make a fortune here manufacturing 160+ proof er, hand sanitizer. Use about 10 kgs sugar, heat it so it dissolves completely in 20 l water. After cooling the sugar will remain in suspension in a super saturated condition. Add in turbo or quick yeast. Let...

I read one article that suggested that the death rate in Italy was higher because it got into an older segment of the population. Also smoking is more prevalent in Italy than many other countries. Older smokers with perhaps more underlying health issues will result in a higher death rate. More...

Was anything done on the boat on the return trip? Was the dive master informed? At the very least ,IMHO ,he should have been given O2.It may not help but it would never hurt. I was taught if any doubt start the O2.

I don't think it caused the problem, it might have highlighted them but the underlying issues would have been there independent of the posting of a thread.

I don't recall the flesh eating bacteria in 2010. Was it in all the newspapers and I missed it? Make enough predictions and sooner or later you will get one right, even a blind chicken gets some corn.

It was not so much that a lot changed in the virus and its propagation rates, what changed was that the US and other governments woke up to the facts and the politicians made the decisions to take significant steps to control the spread of the virus. The information was out there, all it took...

As far as I am concerned, anyone traveling internationally, especially those traveling to less developed places, need to do their due diligence on every trip. In normal times this would be not too much, you take a sun flight package deal to somewhere touristy and can reasonably expect that...