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Again, just for humor and perspective... "10 Reasons Why Bear Week Would Be Better Than Shark Week" by Kevin Corrigan - CollegeHumor Article

Just to lighten things up, a relevant joke: My SCUBA instructor always stressed that you should never go diving alone. If you have equipment problems, your buddy can help you. If you run out of air, your buddy can help you. If you meet an aggressive shark, your odds are 50-50 instead of 100%.

I would agree - if you are dumb enough to go to a top predator that is bigger, stronger, and faster than you, and then associate yourself with food for it.... What did you EXPECT was going to happen? I don't go out to a pride of lions dressed like a Big Mac....

I'm going to go with a big NO on that one.

Was in the Keys for a week in the end of Oct, in the water quite a bit - only saw 1 shark, and it was hanging on the bottom. As I was on a snorkel tour with my wife, I decided to leave it be.

I understand they're supposed to like urine almost as much as blood, so maybe you shouldn't pee in your suit at the safety stop, either... Especially if it's a dry suit!

Forced mask removal was definitely NO part of my certification... I'm PADI.

You missed the most catastrophic one! Don't manage to completely knock off the 1st stage (no idea how you'd do this), or you'll find out what an sdv feels like as you go rocketing through the water. Saw an episode of Mythbusters where they checked how powerful that was - the tank punched...

Have to say I agree with what everyone on here is saying. This is the only skill I struggled with, and at one point felt that it just wasn't going to happen - and it was precisely because I was being told to keep my head tipped back the entire time. That just makes water sluice down your...

Having spent 6 years working in a pharmacy - sometimes, a med is dropped just because it simply isn't profitable enough to keep on the company's manufacturing list. I know a lot more patches move than pills, so it probably wasn't something worth doing, from their perspective.

On another note, have you tried dosing yourself with ginger in some form (candied seems least harsh)? Ginger's an ancient herbal remedy for nausea.

From another forum, after a quick google search: According to Craig Sherman, MD, who is the Medical Director at Hope Pharmaceutical, it has been discontinued due to a disruption in their supply. If you're concerned about it and want to encourage them to begin the process of replacing it, you...

That tidbit of knowledge is just one more reason I love this forum. I would have assumed it might be worth doing, but now if I decide I'm diving cold enough, I'll just save up and go dry.

So, on the whole, you'd say a semi-dry is just money you could have saved toward a dry?

Just for personal edification - how close would a semi-dry come to a dry suit in situations like this - where the water is below 50*? As has been mentioned by some others, I'm comfy in 50* water in my 7mm john, but the SI is kinda brutal depending on air temps. I was wondering about a semi-dry...

Actually.... not to be a pain, and no criticism intended or anything, but you could actually go down 50' and then 295' laterally.... a^2+b^2=c^2. Just figured I'd correct the numbers....

Hmm... what if the octopus gives more tugs on the rope?? Then they won't know WHAT to do... lol.

I'm basically fresh off my c-card, too, so I can't answer everything, but I have one question / tip. Were you wearing a fairly thick hood while diving? And if so, did you try pulling the hood away from your face to make an air gap to help equalize? I found that this helped immensely the one...

I got my OW cert as a one-on-one experience. While it wasn't quite as in-depth as what Bob did for you, it's an experience that I HIGHLY recommend to anyone who can arrange / afford it. This let my awesome instructor focus on what I was doing and get everything squared away so I was...

Yeah..... it WASN'T a discovery dive...