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Sounds like it's losing cookies. You're not using a "private browsing" session for, er, some reason, are you? ;)

10 is the smallest number of posts per page I've seen on any board. The majority are 20 or 25, and I've never had a problem with those on a mobile. I had the old site set to 50, and that was just fine, even on on an iPhone 4. The actual text that makes up the posts tends to be a small fraction...

The sea temperature in October averages 27c. I've always found a 5mm shorty more than sufficient for a week of 3-dive days. If you prefer a full suit, a 3mm should be plenty at that time of year.

Welcome! Diving with your children adds a whole dimension to the underwater experience - once you relax and stop worrying about them, and then realise they're better than you. PS I have 3 kids but only one of them dives. (She's my favourite, but I haven't told the other 2 that. :) )

Best musical accompaniment to a fight scene since "Kill Bill" :ar15:

I don't think you can go too far wrong with any of the bigger operators. Emperor are often referred to as the "English" operator, and they do generally seem to have a higher proportion of Brits on board. Whether that's a good thing or not depends on your opinion of Brits ;)

I'm due to fly into Sharm 2 weeks today, but it's looking increasingly unlikely. If the Foreign Office advice is still "Essential Travel Only" I will at least get my money back on the insurance, and I'll put that - and the holiday time - towards a trip to Cozumel sometime after Xmas. The only...

A big +1 for Emperor. Hugely professional and they run reasonably sized boats which were at a fraction of their capacity earlier this year, so I can only imagine how quiet they'll be when the resort opens up again. Great news for those diving soon, not so good for Emperor and the longer term.

"Additionally, many of us have found that different fins help. For me, Force Fins work best." I used to get really bad calf cramps at the end of a dive but they more or less vanished after I moved up a size in the same fins, and at the same time switched to spring straps. I hadn't noticed the...

A shorty? You big wuss, you should be diving in your semmit! :D

My deepest condolences to Peter, and to the oh-so-many people who loved her. Cameron

With hindsight it might not have been the brightest move wearing the patch in the first place, but all credit to the guy for not panicking with a hole like that being burned in to him.

Happy to. After a week and a thousand or so posts across several topics (many since deleted) I wasn't seeing much new in the way of further clarity or lessons learned emerging myself, so thought it wouldn't hurt to express my own opinion on what I thought was a salient point. Sorry if that...

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'd pin the Darwin Award on him myself, with oak leaf cluster and bar! However, it still wasn't a suicide by any definition I recognise.

I'm certainly not qualified to get between you two on the psychology or the physiology, but while it has contributory negligence written all over it I can't agree with this repeated assertion that it was a "suicide". From the Oxford English Dictionary: "The action of killing oneself...

It's mostly day boats from Port Ghalib, but Abu Dabbab is relatively close and odds are good that one of the operators mentioned above will be running a trip there on any given day. Abu Dabbab Dive Site

But if you so much as suggest back on board that you might squeeze his gopro into an altogether different orifice next time, suddenly you're the bad guy! :fire:

Don't worry, I'm pretty sure you won't be the full 18m down when you do your skills in the sea for the first time. I actually found it much easier in the sea than in the pool. The pool I learned in was only 2m deep and it was all too easy to bounce off the side or the bottom while focusing on a...

I got a card from my daughter that said I was "Turtley Awesome!" No present though, the cheapskate.

If you don't normally feel cold in a 3mm, then odds are good that you'll be just fine in a 3/2.