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Why would members be less inclined to reply to a celebrity? How would anyone here know if a celebrity was hiding behind an anonymous user ID? 646 now.

I believe that the post you are replying to was "tongue in cheek" That much said I don't get your explanation about holding the spool by its edges. I recommend the tip of thumb and forefinger one on each side, just the fingertips inside the center so it can roll easily and would easily pull...

We're not all the same. One person's 65 might be elderly, on par with a 75 year old, while another person's 65 is energy, vitality and strength comparable to a 50 year old.

Seems to me filling out the DAN form with fake information could result in a denied claim should there be an accident. Maybe not but why do it?

I had a DM from Rainbow Reef get a bit overzealous and aggressive. I wasn't diving with his group (or anyone else for that matter). He was below me at the safety stop and noticed I was at 250 psi. As I've got a full 19cf bailout bottle I regularly allow my primary tank reserve to drop below...

A group of divers with scooters in such low vis conditions that they can only locate each other by shining lights towards each other. Sounds like a nightmare trying to keep together and at the very least it's gotta be a huge detractor from the dive requiring constant situational and buddy...

Geez I'd hate to be the OOA diver that grabs your primary regulator.

Anyone who thinks it's ok to teach basic scuba diving skills to students while on their knees should spend some time at the Blue Heron Bridge while training is in progress and look at the mess that's created by these "classes". It's just wrong on so many levels. If you gotta start out on the...

The endgame is money. It's not that they're lonely and looking to make friends. These spammer/scammers are commonplace on FB and people really need to be less ignorant and recognize the red flags that are obvious with fake profiles. Including but not limited to them requesting you to message...

Seems like a reasonable adaptation would be to solo dive in such conditions so you don't spend most of the dive watching for your buddy's dive light.

I've never found a light to be useful in low visibility, if anything it makes the situation worse by causing reflections off the haze, no different than using high beams in a fog. If you're referring to using the light to make it easier for your buddy to see you that's something else. But I...

You had to take a year or so off from posting here? No internet access in the prison library or something?

It's sorta funny how you say "now back to the top of Egypt liveaboards" and then you post an article about Thailand liveaboards.

I'm quite certain it doesn't work that way. Although no specific depth or time limitations are imposed, the daily schedule of meals and boat moving times are posted, and divers are required to plan their dives around that. I suppose one could sacrifice breakfast for a 3 hour rebreather dive but...

It's probably not a stretch to assume they work the same way.

On the liveaboards I've been on, there's plenty of time to get your dives in. Usually it's 2 dives on a morning site, and 2 dives in the evening. Breakfast follows the first morning dive and lunch follows the second. After lunch the boat is moved to the site where the boat will stay overnight...

Who or what is limiting you to 40m? Is there some sort of a sign that says "depth limits enforced by sonar"? Or a line of that yellow tape that says "Do Not Cross"? Or one of those traffic cops with the whistle and the white gloves? Because I've NEVER seen anything like that down there.

It's not unusual for such things to be left up to the discretion of the divers. "Plan your dive, and dive your plan, pool's open". I've been on liveaboards where they don't set limits, and even go so far as to say they don't discourage non tech trained recreational divers from going into deco.

That does not apply to penetrable shipwrecks. They can be dived at night but if so it's going to be a different strategy than the same wreck during the daylight hours.

I don't know why that classifies as a "wow" but yes they're next door neighbors. With a few differences. One of them is at the top of my list and the other at the bottom because they canceled a scheduled wreck trip due to not having enough minimums. So I went to the larger operation and have...