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Peace on Earth and Good Will to Mankind - what more can anyone of any belief wish for??? Happy KwanzaChanuMas to all, and to all a good night! Oy, Oy, Oy!

Hi Overyde, Thanks for the good news. Glad we were able to help you out. Looking forward to doing more business with you. Take care, George

Hi Sam, No problem, alot of people get confused by all the holidays. To add to the confusion, the dates change every year because they are scheduled according to a lunar and seasonal calender rather than the solar calender that most people are used to. Just remember, we didn't make them...

Hello Michael, Sorry for the delays. We have been closed for the religious holidays, and are open full time again this Thursday, the 23rd. Unfortunately your inquiries came in during the times we were either closing or were already closed. Our holiday schedule is posted on our website, as...

Hi Walter, Contrary to popular belief, I really do have a life beyond scuba. :shocked2: Used to work for a major insurance company and had access to the numbers. Still have friends who do. Safe diving AND riding, George

Congratulations on your OW check out! Next stop - AOW! Enjoy, George

With the exception of Apple's products, try finding a computer without microsoft being involved. I'm no computer genius, so I don't know if microsoft sucks or not, I just know that virtually everything comes with them, and I cannot afford the Apple products, so I go with microsoft ones. While...

Personally I love to see masks on foreheads - just means more mask business for our Dive Center. One of the last persons I pulled out of the water half drowned was a Y diver whose mask was knocked off of his forehead when a wave went over his head and he choked on some water. This poor ol...

We have alot of women coming in and trying out different BCD's. Generally the Zeagle Zena gets chosen 3:1 over all the others. A few have even come back and purchased a Zena after purchasing one of the other brands. Hope this helps, George

A mask on the forehead does not mean someone is distressed, but a divemaster or instructor would generally give them the once over to look for other signs of distress as well. It is however a good way to loose your mask. That's the reason I teach my students not to do it, so they don't loose it...

Interesting forum with alot of interesting points. Here's my .02: PADI's founders came up with the name because they wanted 1) the word PROFESSIONAL included in the overall name, and 2) they wanted a name that was easy to say, remember, and did not sound like any other agency available at the...

As long as the instructor is OK with it and knows how to properly teach someone in BP/W there should be no problem. I teach students in BP/W all the time. As far as students being on their knees, it's just an easy way for students to "sit" while learning techniques. A better way would be for...

:eyebrow: As long as it works for you - go for it. I personally have 2 things against me using a weight belt - 1 is a back injury - the weight belt just plain hurts too much and 2 - I have no butt to keep it in place even when I could wear one. Kept slipping off. I've also have had them...

Absolutely! I mean I know that structurally there are differences.. such as SSI actually requires you to go diving to earn an advanced rating while PADI will hand it to you after 5 dives... They are 2 different programs designed to do 2 different things. Please see above, otherwise you are...

Wish I did - maybe something I can do in the near future. Picture it this way - it's like taking something from the back pockets on your jeans and putting it in your front pockets temporarily, then putting it back into your back pockets again. The weight pockets in your BCD are your "back...

SSI is fully recognized by PADI as well as by any other agency. There is no need to take another open water course. Just take your next course with PADI and you'll have a PADI certification. Many people have taken their different levels with different agencies - it's quite common.

Hope to catch up with you!

Absolutely correct and this does work well. I've had a personal experience where I had to remove my intergrated unit to get out of a wreck. Totally through my own stupidity, I got lost, and the only way out was a hole that either I, OR my equipment could get through, NOT both at the same time...

Not only does an Air II have the capacity to do this, so does an Atomic SS1 and a Zeagle Octo Z. I've personally experimented with all of these from 150+ feet. No, they are not on the level of my Poseidons, but they do the job. A person properly trained and practiced using any of these units...

As far as the 100 hours dive time goes, I added that because many dives are way shorter than 1 hour, while others of course others are much longer. Again, this is just a suggestion for a minimum standard. You can have someone having 100 dives, but if they are only around 20 minutes long each...