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It looks like they did an open water entry from shore and then moved under the ice or the ice moved over them and they could not get out. At home we ice dive, but with tender, rescue divers etc ready to go. As the ice goes out no diving until the floating ice is at least just slush if not...

Many LDS will ask to see your Nitrox C card before letting you dive Nitrox.

I use an older ( 6 years now) MS Surface Pro, they make updated models with the same form factor. It is a great travel computer, You can get a wide range of options for processor, RAM and SSD size. When it die, I will replace with another. A little limited in what you can connect to it but with...

I read one review that said that the sonic transmitter for the air on the Mk2 was audible. Anyone else experience this? Anyone know the frequency and volume?

I agree, I start to think about getting out of my board shorts and rashie and putting on my 2 mil shortie at 25C. Dry suits are for the days when you need a chain saw to get in the water.

I am in Moalboal now. You could consider here. The diving is in a built up area so there is some night life. In PG you have a lot of currents to deal with and in Dauin the shore is all rocky and outside of Apo Island all muck diving. Moalboal has a nice wall, a wide variety of topside...

This discussion is missing basic micro economic considerations. The cost of something has absolutely zero impact on the price that someone can charge. The price will impact the supply available. The price and quantity bought and sold in the market place will be at the intersection of the supply...

Back in the 70's when I started engineering school, calculators were not at all common. I got one for Xmas in first year, it needed to be charged and only had about a 3 or 4 hour battery life. I still took my slide rule to every test and exam right up to 4th year. ( I was not the only one that...

Most place I have dove with will do some sort of check out on your first dive. It may be as simple as having a DM keep an eye on you or it may be formal one on one and you do some drills. If they suggest a simple dive to get started, go long with it, no big deal, often a good idea especially if...

My SOP is to inflate the bladder while pulling on the bottom dump at the same time as soon as I am out of the water and before I remove my BPW. This flushes out any water in the bladder at the end of every dive. Sometimes I will get a litre or so, sometimes zero water but always empty at the...

That is total lung capacity. You can exhale as much as possible and you still have 2 l left. Maxi mun air difference from full lungs to as empty is about 4 l. Normal breath is around 2 l. Of course averages so different people will have different volumes. I need no air in my wing at 50 bar...

I am 65 and have a first aid kit that evolved from the one I put together when I was about 11 in Scouting. I have a military surplus trauma dressing dated 1951 in it that has been with me since the 60's. Put in your kit the stuff that you think you will need and that you know how to use. Keep...

I ended up with an Ocean Diver AL back plate and harness. The SS Apeks plate alone was as much as the combination, the Apetks harness about the same so I got Al for half what a SS would have been. I had been using a low end Seac BCD, With just a rashie and board shorts I was diving with 5 kg...

There is an instructor here with a few thousand dives but he has never dove dry suit. I have dove dry and ice. Does this make me a more experienced diver? Yes but only for ice and dry. You should be experienced for the type of diving you want to do. If a type of diving does not interest you...

I have absolutely zero sympathy for any foreigner in any country that gets tossed in prison for doing something that is against local law. Whatever is legal at home, whatever rights you have at home simply do not matter at all. All your embassy will do is ensure that you are treated in...

That is what I dive with just got it a couple weeks ago, so far only 3 night dives bit used several times to look into dark corners. I like it, variable intensity, SOS mode and I seldom open it up to the full 37 degree. Normally just use at or close to the narrowest setting. My back up night...

That is the way I am going. Got a deal on an AL BP an harness. I will use that to start and see where I need to add the weight and get trim. If I think I can get good trim with a steel plate, I will switch to get the lead off my belt or out of the pockets. With my BC I have 5 kg at my waist...

For dive courses, OW,AOW and then rescue/first aid, would be the minimum. Then dive dive dive. Specialties that enhance diving skills not underwater side activities. I would recommend Nitrox and deep for all divers with Dry suit, ice, wreck, cavern etc as interest takes you. Specialties are...

I am Canadian living in Philippines. DAN Asia is available here, roughly the same cost as 10 dives. ( $AUS260 or so in total). Locals cannot afford that in many cases. I am in Moalboal, Cebu now and have dived in Dumaguete. There can be some strong currents there but nothing exceptionally hard...

Not an instructor or DM but I see that travel restrictions will remain in place in some form or the other until the end of 2021. It will be that long at least until sufficient vaccinations are in place to make it safe. Disposable income will also be reduced as the economy stays down...