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Acknowledging the caveats that previous years' weather is no predictor for next year, I've been to Rasdhoo twice in recent years, once in December and once in June. The worst single day was actually in December, but otherwise most rain and thunderstorms happened overnight. June was quite...

This is what Dive+ can do in 2 seconds for a very poorly balanced JPG from a small point-and-shoot camera with no fine tuning whatsoever, which is more than good enough for my simple needs 99 times out of 100.

As Bill says, Vivid Pix / LAND And SEA SCUBA is reasonable on a PC. Lightroom is awesome, but it's as much art as science - it has almost too many options. I've never found anything that does as good a job as Dive+ with no input or fine tuning at all. I download JPGs from my camera to a...

At the risk of making it even worse, what happened to LI-er? I could probably make a fairly good guess, having seen them derail an Egypt thread earlier this month by harping on about Somali pirates, but it would be nice to know what the tipping point actually was.

Presuming your team isn't into liveaboards by the phrasing of your question, then I'd recommend Sharm as the best all round option. As well as a good range of sites at Tiran and Ras Muhammad within relatively short day boat range, it's easy to do a day trip to Dahab, or even to the Thistlegorm...

Ah, that all sounds very familiar. My first trip to Sharm in 2011 as a newbie came just after a spate of fatal shark attacks in the area, and no matter how much everyone (correctly) tells you that they very, very rarely go for divers it can't help but prey on your mind. In the end I went, of...

Never been in November, but my most recent trips in June and December both averaged 29-30, maybe a degree cooler at 30 metres. Visibility is generally at its best around Nov/Dec.

Chalk downs aplenty, salt lakes not so much. (I lived in Basingstoke for a few years in the '90s, but it was before I started diving so can't help with your original question I'm afraid.)

Not many salt lakes near Reading? :wink:

It wasn’t a complaint, just an observation. I suspect most Russians can read English, but not vice versa. Nekulturny 😉

Thanks for this mental picture which I cannot now unsee! o_O I've never noticed much difference between the Apeks comfo-bite on my main regs and any other style, to be honest - certainly not enough to bother swapping them around. Tell me about it! I bit right through my first mouthpiece after...

Recommend you learn to read Cyrillic. Having been there a few months ago for the first time since 2015, the preponderance of Russians was the biggest change I noticed. Not that there weren't always a good number of them back in the day, but a fair few shops now have signs in Russian rather than...

Nice video! Hoping to get down that way in October myself, all being well.

Been a few times in February, always dived in a 5mm wetsuit (not semi-dry) no hood, no gloves, no layers. The picture is 7th Feb 2015, water temp 23C; that trip was 5 days, 15 dives, most of us in wetsuits throughout. You appear to be from pretty much the same latitude (I'm in the Isle of Man)...

Ah, the good old days when you could still take more than 100ml on board.

Site Support: Server restore Dec 29 Shame there wasn't a backup taken right before the upgrade. Or maybe there was, and it wasn't restorable, it happens.

Should have used transparent aloominum

My preference is Sharm, where stripy fish abound, but that's as much because my dive buddy is my daughter and she demands more in the way of nightlife. The Marsa Alam/Port Ghalib area is also a good base, as mentioned above. However, as also mentioned above, January would be my last choice of...

Is that North Ari Atoll at the beginning?

As someone who only does the occasional drive-by on here, I thought I'd have a look at what the OP might (or might not) have been saying previously in case I was missing something exciting. Ironically, it was not to be...