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Yeah this should really be in the liveaboard trips/marketplace forum.

I think the actual tax rate (theoretically) assessed on whatever they choose to tax is 16% (based on what I've read). So let's assume a standard pro level UW mirrorless/DSLR rig with macro/dome ports could easily run you in the neighborhood of $1000 USD, assuming they don't come after your...

The Carnets don't seem a whole lot cheaper than the actual shakedowns. You just prepay for the convenience of getting through the airport without unexpected drama. My solution is just don't go on dive trips to Mexico.

Haven't been diving in Mexico in a long time, but just read about this stuff and wow. Yeah, zero chance I'd ever willingly travel someplace doing shakedowns like this. Equipment for personal use shouldn't ever be taxed, and this has never happened anywhere else I've gone in the Caribbean or...

Yeah certainly if you're going to be doing video at night, in cold water or poor vis, or a lot of macro in nooks and crannies you will absolutely want lights. I think it mostly depends on what type of video that ~20% for the OP is going to be.

Yeah I'll echo what Barmaglot said. It can be done, but a lot of pros will tell you they get better results focusing entirely on either stills or video on a given dive. In addition to practical differences/limitations like lighting and lenses, you can find that the types of subjects you look...

All the divers in that video clearly needed fins on their hands.

I've never heard of locations banning knives. A small knife, line cutter, or shears are a critical piece of safety equipment that you should always have. I have one of the small blunt end titanium knives with a cutter on my harness belt. Shears can easily go in most BC pockets. Gloves, sure...

Stay calm and look at your depth gauge constantly. Fin normally perpendicular to the current if the bottom is nowhere near you. Add air to your BCD while continuing to carefully monitor your depth. When you begin to ascend consistently start dumping air from your BCD to maintain a safe ascent...

I have to assume they weren't planning to dive to anywhere near that depth, given they were reportedly AOW divers. Seems like it was a recreational dive gone very wrong.

Yeah, agree with the above. I'm also on the west coast and have done several Indo/Pacific trips to remote destinations away from an international airport, but always for a minimum of like 10 nights. When the travel time on each end can easily be 24-36+ hours, going for a week seems pointless...

Yeah, with modern equipment and assuming divers are are weighted within reason (eg. not 10lb negative at the surface), there's hardly ever a reason to ditch weights. If you're at depth with your BC/wing nearly full of air just to stay neutral and no headroom to get positive and ascend, you're...

The argument is silly because no matter what she did or didn't do it's not the shark's fault. You go in the ocean, you accept certain risks because you don't belong there. Sure she may have taken certain actions which made a violent encounter more likely (though the accounts are...

Yeah understood, I was just pointing out that it's a waste to use Novus, a plastic polishing compound, on glass. Literally any other cleaner will work as well or better for much less money.

The novus stuff is great on plexi, but won't really do anything on glass aside from acting as a cleaner. Glass is way too hard, and if you do somehow manage to get actual scratches in glass, novus isn't abrasive enough to grind away material from glass.

Nice toy, I might need to check that out. I have one of the rocket squeeze blower things every photographer has in their bag, but that looks to have a lot more utility minus the arm workout.

CLR cleaner (calcium, lime, rust) works well at getting salt spots dissolved. Safe on glass and any hard plastics like plexi. Then you can clean it up with water and a soft cloth after that.

I overheard a SCUBA diver on a recent trip while doing their paperwork just after arriving at a resort say "no I always use oxygen" in response to a question about nitrox. No, they did not have a CCR.

The air can probably manage most of that. It might be worth considering the pro though for other factors, like potentially a bigger/better display (depending on size choice) if you're not gonna be plugged into an external monitor.

Yes, but it's extremely application dependent and many of those big improvements are only in some relatively narrow use cases. So you need to research the benchmarks to see what apps actually benefit from that performance and decide accordingly based on your usage. For instance, modern macs...