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I ditched the wetsuit, for shorts, the first chance I got after courses, then I got rash burns from the BC on my soulders, so added a rash guard. After my first jellyfish encounter, I switched to a lycra suit. I suppose I'm slowly learning why most people wear wetsuits... All of my diving has...

Unfortunately, we will reach a point where everyone has had it and either survive due to natural immunity or vaccination, or die from it. Once severe illness doesn't overwhelm hospitals and death rates reflect something similar to the flu, then that's probably the point we move on. At this...

It seems encounters like this does better PR for Great Whites than people in cages, as the need for a cage says "danger"...

Yes, a brand new Canon G12 housing. I tested it twice and same result both times, which required difficult cleaning after each. I sent to Canon and it went to the East Coast, then West Coast, then back to me with a note that said they don't fix assesories. I would later learn that they would...

Tissue paper as in Kleenex type? Because I've used toilet paper sheets and it disintegrated into a pulpy mess inside a camera housing I was testing.

Condolences...

This treatment is experimental and there's no accounting for long-term effects.

Is it feasible to travel safely? Yes, but it's a hassle, so the enjoyment factor is gone. Holidays aren't meant for adding more stress.

Since the virus is new, it also makes all *treatments* experimental as well. No one knows what the long-term effects are for the treatments. Why are some people pushing experimental treatment drugs? Hidden agenda? Advocating for the pharmaceutical companies making the treatment drugs?

I'm confused with advocating for people's right to choose to vaccinate or not and praise for Taiwan's handling of the pandemic, as Taiwan pretty much went with strict government enforcement - closed borders to many countries, those that were allowed in had to quarantine with random police...

I've had a swim against current where I surfaced with 5 bar. :/ We were pretty far from the boat and it was more efficient to swim below than on the surface, which was only 2 m above. I've had someone in the dive group break off for the surface at 50 bar, since she saw red on the SPG and...

BBC reporter's long Covid. The thing that caught my eye was the caption that said her breathing made her retain too much CO2, which is an obvious concern for divers... Long Covid: Will I ever get better?

When you're ready to go down, perhaps start releasing air from your BCD, but not immediately dump all of it? Since you haven't had enough experience to fine tune your weight yet, you're probably overweight. Release enough air to get moving and observe how fast you're dropping. Things react...

On Koh Tao, where many backpackers go for scuba diving, the "hot shot" crowd tries to differentiate themselves by freediving.

My first interaction with a computer was a game called Del Mar on a Commodore PET. It was a simple horse racing game. You picked a number and watched a bunch of numbers go from left to right, with the leader changing frame to frame. I later played Atari, Intellivision and Colecovision. At some...

It's certainly possible, but this item needs to be waterproof to depth, which may require replacing o-rings or seals not available to the general public.

I dove in Koh Lanta, Thailand and an instructor seemed really familiar. After checking my paper log book, I realized she was a guide when I dove in Okinawa, Japan, years earlier. I showed her the log book and her signature and she was so surprised. There was no way she would have remembered me...

The vaccine isn't the real virus. It's meant to provoke the immune system into reacting similarly as the body would, had it been attacked by the real thing. Given that the vaccine gave you such severe side effects, have you thought what the real virus might have done to you? Sure, you say you're...

My BC... er... BCD... has this to say...

Cressi Giotto Dive Computer Come With Extra Batteries | eBay (See original listing) The feedback... "Just as described, super quick shopping. Highly recommend !" Seems like a misrepresentation, but if the buyer is happy, I guess it doesn't matter? The HISTory screen would obviously not match.