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Experience and fitness are are lacking in many cases, no matter the age.

If you want to see some photos from Kona, get the contact e-mail for the boat off the web. Send it attention Polar Bear, ask if he would send you a few photos of some of the things you might expect to see on an average trip. He also did the photos for the screen saver that you can down load from...

As a DM leading a dive without a computer, you're going to have a lot of unhappy divers if they're using computers and you're using the tables. Without one you'll probably be in the dark about all the questions divers will ask you about how the one they use works.

Awesome shots. It sounds like from your comments about each photo that you gave the animals the space and respect they deserved, good on ya. This has been a hard winter for them.

Don't bother with the manatee tour if you aren't going in the colder winter months. Add a shark tooth dive in Venice.

BVI will require STCW-95 to work in the dive business, another 1000 or so in classes.

Drop off day before you need them and have them topped off at pick up. This way it doesn't matter which tank monkey filled the things, you leave with a full tank.

robint makes a good point. Most of these people do have minimum training. If it's something they've never seen before, take it out, show them what it's for and how it all works together. It may save a lot of time for the next people that come through with the same type of stuff. Have you ever...

Make sure you do a pool dive to check out your gear before the trip, leaving enough time to get any problems fixed and get to the pool again before the trip to check out the repairs.

I can honestly say the Captain makes the trip. Some are good, some are great and some I can't believe anyone would trust them with a boat. Best to call and ask questions. This time of year some shops use seasonal Captains. If you don't go on a weekend, chances are good that any boat will be a...

24,000 to start is pretty good. Too many will work for free, keeps wages low for us all. I've always refused to use my retirement to supplement someone else's business.

You're always going to get what you get in the deep blue sea. Adapt, over come, sit it out, whatever makes best sense to you. Make good decisions, your life may depend on it. Over confidence and inexperience can sneak up on you when you least expect it. A lesson for all of us here.

Yikes, BA.

Amazing photo, would be interesting to get some background.

I use the lube stick every time I use the suit. Keep any latex seals well talced and clean. Dry suit hoods don't have the bib so you can tuck them under the flap over the neck seal, if the suit has one. I've seen the bibbed hoods used before with the bib floating up in the divers face for the...

I use the lube stick every time I use the suit. Keep any latex seals well talced and clean. Dry suit hoods don't have the bib so you can tuck them under the flap over the neck seal, if the suit has one. I've seen the bibbed hoods used before with the bib floating up in the divers face for the...

5mm with 3mm hooded vest, this was my year around outfit when I worked down there and in the Bahamas. At depth everything will compress, if you're too hot you can always flush. Only down side was the weight issues. Steel tanks are great!

It's pretty obvious, the more you dive, the better the chance you'll lose something. Why is it, if you rent something and lose it, you don't expect to have to pay to replace that item?

If sink the stink or similar products aren't working well, it's usually because too much water was added and or the item was rinsed after treated. This works well for the urine smell. Body oils are done in by a little woolite or similar product, even baby shampoo will do. This is then rinsed and...

It seems all responses are similar and reasonable given the experience levels indicated by number of dives in profiles. One may be living in a more perfect world than the rest. Shops usually don't have the luxury of putting every level of experience on a different boat to a different location...