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Charles, You'll like Clive I think. He's very mellow, lets you do your thing, or you can follow the leader. He doesn't restrict your bottom time, but says something like, "This dive is to 70 feet, so your NDL is 35 minutes or to the limit of your computer." He shows you where the wreck is...

Thanks for the notice. I'm going to see if I can attend.

Umm, Eek?

Heading back to Aruba for my third time there. I leave in two weeks. Made the final arrangements today. Always an exciting time when everything is set up and the checks are in the mail. My wife and I will be there from the 2nd to the 11th of June. We will be diving with Clive from...

Cancun -> Coz is a good trip. Coz had great diving when I was there pre-hurricane. I also hear it's come back from the damage now. I'm heading back to Aruba for the third time June 2nd. Aruba has the best topside life of the places I've been, and Aruba has several great wrecks to explore...

Serambin, thanks for clarifying your original post. I freely admit I have no experience in the kind of diving you are talking about, and withdraw any opinions I've offered. I wish you would have put that additional info in your original post, so that I would not have assumed we were talking...

All4, sorry if this seems trollish (I don't mean it that way), but I have to ask... did you read the OP's question? Because I'm not sure you are answering the question that was posed. Also, if I blow off deco, I already know my computer will lock me out. I don't need to read the manual...

I think he missed the "out of gas" part of the question...

I stand corrected. Friends of mine have been there twice and not seen any, and I've been there once with no current. I wondered why they were so protective of Mary's Place, it was a piece of cake (with no current). Guess I just got lucky. :\

The least I will dive in is a 3mm shorty or sometimes a 3mm full. I even use 6mm boots in the Carribean. I haven't wussed out into a hood yet. Like it's been said before, the less you move, the faster you get cold.

I had the same problem. Now I attach a four pound weight to my upper tank strap, and it makes my trim fine. Oh, and there's no current in Roatan, if you stay on the south side of the island. The only current I experienced there last year was the drift to the bar at the end of the day...

If there are jelly fish in your neck of the pond, don't use the lights until you get to depth, and turn them off before you surface. Had them sting the hell out of me before I learned this.

Well, I went to CCV last year, and was not satisfied with the resort or Roatan (topside) in general. But I have to say I have not yet had a better or easier diving experience to date. Roatan's diving is incredible. It was uncommon to see the big fish, but there are so many schools of little...

I always want to see what's at the bottom of the wall. You never know what might be down there - someone's dive knife, or a few gold coins from pirate days, or something even older. The lure to check it out is very powerful. It's not a problem when the wall bottoms out at 100' and you've...

The OP is not a commercial diver, nor is he a tech diver. The OP has accumulated at most 500 dives over 40 years, with only an OW certification level - based on his public profile. I'm not saying the OP is an idiot, he's very likely an experienced diver, but would you really put such a...

Wonderful. I wonder what resort this happened on. I'd be interested to see more information on this, but so far Google just has that one news report already quoted. Not that I distrust that news source (I do), but I'd like to see more verification that this was a diving accident, and not...

My wife uses a LadyHawk with attached Air2. She really likes the streamlining effect. One problem we've had is that she's dunked it in the rinse tank a time or two without putting the cap on it. She's learned real quick not to do that, but it's a factor. Also, when you take your regs in...

I had one of the original defective inflators on my Eclipse. I ended up doing my AOW checkout dives on oral inflation to work around the problem. Since I've had it replaced with the redesigned one, I've had -zero- problems with the inflator, or anything else on the wing.

If I were in that situation, I'd do the deco to the limit of my gas, and my buddy's if he/she's got extra. Then I'd get on the boat, get on O2, and pray there are no symptoms. If there are, I hope a chopper is available. If there are no symptoms, I'd be on the phone with DAN as soon as a...

Between a jacket and a back-inflate, I'll take the BI every time. Jackets are the suck for me. Put me on the list of recreational backplate divers though. :)