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Obviously all of this is waaay over my head. I do have a question though, whats a "Live Boat Drop"??

Hmm cant let that go.. Teaching is a business? What is charged barely covers the cost of insurance, gear etc? If I dont charge you for what I know you wont respect me (okay unfair, you wont respect what I teach)? Teaching is a profession to be sure and if what you teach has value you are...

I have never claimed to be an expert, to not need instruction, hell Im not even an average diver. I am a beginner and will continue to be one for many more years I am sure. I do know when I am being hustled, I can tell when I am given a "taste" of something wether or not its just a way of...

Quote: To do a full navigation speciality(3 hrs academic presentation 2 dives)..full deep speciality..(3 hrs presentation and 2 dives)..full boat speciality(with boat fees) a full day 2 dives maybe 1 hr presentation)..night dive speciality (2 hr presentation 2 night dives) search recovery...

Oly as I dont know you I obviously had no intention of infering that you or your lds takes your students to the bank. What I am infering is that the system of training is not designed as much to educate as it is to make money off your students. As you subscribe to this ideology by the text of...

Thanks for all the information and I am glad everything worked out well for you. I will be adding the DAN information to my phone and local chamber number as well.

Really sorry to hear about your loss. I would like some information regarding the accident?? I really wish that all posts not specifically related to an accident could be deleted or removed. I mean really 12 pages of nothing to get to nothing.... If there is no information and this is a...

Truth in fact is that although the compass can help you navigate underwater and is an aid it cannot often be used alone. Unlike on land your moving in another dimension (vertical plane) and the combination of current, surge and variances at diffrent depths make it very unlikely that you could...

I am a little confused by some of the course offering by PADI and presumably other programs. A few that come to mind would be boat diver, night diver, naturalist diver etc. The reason for my confusion is the cost to do these dives and the prerequisite of a certain number of "specialty" dives...

Thanks for your response jbichsel. I didn't take the posts as an attack on me per say, so much as attack on people who have done things diffrently than say those who have been diving for a while or those who have taken longer courses. The theme here aside from the usual drop in to internet...

Read most of the sixteen pages =). Have a couple comments, first off I did the resort course. Spent 3.5 days doing it and enjoyed (well not really) the hell out of it =). I spent the first two nites of the coures reading 250 pages and doing dam quizes. I am a bit disappointed to see so much...

Ack, open mouth insert foot....

Instead of photos in the gallery, I get a bunch of links which when clicked send me to the error page saying I was directed to a non existant link etc. Have tried with both IE and firebird no diffrence with either. Any idea what the problem could be. Tried to find the FAQ but didnt see a link...

Although debated inventor, none the less, a strong influence on the sport today. http://www.surfersvillage.com/surfing/22960/news.htm

I am curious. I am on the pacific coast and I know water temp is say around 55 degrees (give or take). I did my o/w class in mexico. Resort style 3 days 5 dives about 10 hours in the pool. On both my 3rd and 4th cert dives there was a very strong current. By very strong I mean kicking from...

Just starting out and stumbled into this .... place. Wow! The information on this board is awesome. Thanks everyone for answering a hundred questions in minutes. =) Hope to do alot more diving soon and I am sure I will find what I need in answers here. One question, does it help to chant...