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Also does your suit go under or over the boot? I find with my 7mm which has a glideskin seal under the boot, then a flap that zips over I don't have an issue. In my 3mm I have more issues with the boot chafing where the bottom hem of the suit is stitched over onto itself, even with a lycra...

Tulamben is a big warm bath with perfect viz, in fact the conditions are so good that instructors sometimes skip the pool sessions and teach the confined water dives in the shallow parts of the bay. If you do want to do your OW in Sydney, it's not so bad with the right exposure protection...

You are truly a diver when you have dived in a near freezing quarry in zero viz. No one else is allowed to call themselves a diver. I myself merely breathe compressed gas underwater, and I'm ok with that.

Honestly if you're asking the question, you already know the answer.

Yeah there's that as well, if I have any little niggles with rental gear, I'm usually over it by the end of the day, so I just want to return my tub and go and get warm. I might even be left thinking "Gee that oceanic reg breathes a bit hard on the second half of the tank", and unfairly write...

I get some nasty blisters on my achilles tendons if I'm in dive boots all day. I limped away from my open water and bought a pair of lycra socks. They're just a pair of ocean pro cheapies, but they make a big difference to comfort.

If I buy a reg from a local dive store and then have them service it, is it any safer than renting a reg from the same store serviced by the same person? Obviously I can be more familiar with my gear if I've got the same setup every week, and It'll cop less abuse if it's just me using it, but...

Just because someone has taken a swimming and bodyboarding product and tried to expand the market into Scuba, isn't automatically a sign that the latest generation of OW divers don't know what their fins do. I did notice that they're marketing it to divers dealing with surges, and it might give...

Don't suppose you know whether the ACCEl fins are about the same length as the Aeris Mako? Cos if if my Makos would fit in the bag then we might have a winner.

In the video you never see her take the fins out, although in the pics on Aeris' website you see them just squeezed in there. It looks to be a BCD with some nice features, wouldn't mind having a look at one close up.

Well I'm off to a tropical location tomorrow to do my AOW. I have about 12 dives in my logbook and I've lost track of which guy that makes me. I'll try to update you guys on what I think I got out of each training exercise from the perspective of a relatively new diver. You guys can decide...

Interesting to hear that from an instructor in Bali. I just bought a wrist computer for my Bali trip, and the lady in the shop in Sydney said it was good I was taking my own, as many of the local operators don't have them on their rental gear. Is this consistent with your experience?

[/CENTER] Looks shallow enough that you could just save your money and go snorkelling.

If I exhaled hard to descend, like if I were carrying the bare minimum amount of weight, and then I held the exhalation all the way down, could I theoretically collapse a lung as that small amount of air gets smaller under pressure?

Most countries have banned smoking in pubs. It was banned in NSW (Australia) about 7 or 8 years ago, and it was a positive for me. Once I had to leave my spot next to the fireplace and my pint and go out in the cold, I found myself more inclined to give it up. Quitting also seemed pretty...

Is that Ubud Bob? Looks awfully like the Monkey Forest. I'm going over to Bali in a weeks, and I'll be spending 5 nights in Ubud between doing my AOW in Tulamben and heading out to Nusa Lebongen in the last few days of the trip. I've got a couple of nights booked in Mushroom Bay, hoping to...

In my admittedly limited diving experience, I've found that when the group's all crowding around trying to look in the same hole, it's easier for me to drift up, roll over uspide down then stick my head in from the top to see what the fuss is about. Then I don't have to back out through a...

What meaningless, poorly thought out, poorly researched waffle. It was like a primary school project where some kid has found out a few fun facts and cut out some pictures, with no though line or proper conclusion. I hope no one got paid for the article. To be fair one of the related articles...

"Must be Adv Open Water with a minimum of 20 logged dives". It's printed on all the dive charters that look interesting, so I'm doing mine next month.

I took my test just after our last confined water dive. We'd been playing with buoyancy in the pool so much I was a bit motion sick, and trying to read all the little numbers on the RDP is hard when the room won't stop moving up and down. Other than that if you didn't have any trouble with the...