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This may vary from one organizer to another, so for best responses you should include who you have booked your dives with. I've only been there once, but dove with a couple of organizers. The dives are mostly drift dives, so the boat drops you off and picks you up (ideally), which means there's...

Although I cannot give you actual medical advice, I would have to mostly agree with the physician you visited. Blood in the middle ear can sound like a bad thing, but in fact it's likely that a good deal of people who dive regularly experience this condition one of more times in their life. It...

About your other question. The important things when it comes to wet suit insulation are fit and thickness. Even a "semi dry" wetsuit will allow some water to enter. As long as your wet suit fits well the water inside won't change too easily and will stay warm. A thicker suit will retain more...

My mistake, apparently you can do it with yoke as well. Check this out: http://www.leisurepro.com/p-sqtdaar/apeks-300-bar-din-conversion-kit-for-all-apexs-regulators

Edit: Wrong info, see my post below.

The best dive I have done was at 40m on air. I'm pretty sure there was a wreck. Man, that was a sweet dive...

I opted for the philosophy of prioritizing reliability in my octo second stage above all else. From the selection available to me I chose Mares Abyss. Metal casing with minimal moving parts. As a disadvantage you can't adjust cracking pressure during the dive, so you have to either accept some...

I just recently went through the next stage of this hurdle, which is getting my second dive computer. Not because I absolutely had to, but because I had lost confidence in my primary due to it breaking down (I got a replacement through warranty, but figured it might break down as well). While at...

I can relate to your experience, to some extent at least. I had a near drowning experience a couple of years back. Like you I lost my mask, and regulator. I wasn't even at depth, but in waist deep water, with waves rolling over me so fast I couldn't get up. Moreover the waves were tossing me and...

This is the essence of it, of course. However, as often is on liveaboard trips, we dove in groups and only separated to go up before the others. For me and my buddy this happened only on part of out dives (thanks to him constantly trying to push it to the limit, not that I still approve it). I...

I have seen a fellow diver sharing air with a DM on a couple of occasions during my diving career, but don't know if any of those were out of air or just sharing to extend the dive a bit. I've never been even close to running OOA myself. As for the divers I have been buddied with, it has...

That is sad news indeed. I was diving in Calavera just a year ago and it is absolutely among the most memorable dives of my life. Would be interested in knowing what happened as well. In retrospect, I must say my guide back then followed these recommendations pretty well, except maybe for the...

Nice video, pacing of the music was spot on!

Moreover, instead of just a list of acronyms, I would greatly appreciate an actual quote or reference to one of these training agencies' recreational manuals stating that the training will allow a diver to dive to depths of more than 40m (or equivalent in feet). In no way do I consider myself...

And if you ask the Japanese, it's the Chinese divers who are a DM's worst nightmare, so I guess it really depends on who you ask :). Although I must admit the things I heard about Chinese divers when I was diving on Okinawa were on a whole different level...

Couldn't find any dive videos either, but there were some other example videos on the front page and they looked pretty slick. They also say it has dedicated overlay(s) for diving. If you can import your dive log into that it would probably be just the thing you're looking for. It looks like you...

I looked into it briefly for some of my cenote/cavern videos once, but came out empty handed just like you did. I've seen a really cool overlay in a video a couple of times, but every time it was different which made me suspect that they were custom jobs manually added to the video. If there is...

I have thought about this quite a bit as well. Students tend to be clearly over weighted on my club's courses, although I admit that the stress level in the open water dives is quite high in our dark and cold waters. Would you happen to have a link to that article or reference if it was just in...

Exactly true. However, the question was about the ability of the human eye/brain to compensate for the lack of color (when talking about the color patch test during AOW deep dive), and even that can't bring back what is not there. Quite a few times I have found a splendidly colorful critter...

But the camera CAN do that, with manual white balance correction! Well, not backscatter, but can't have it all. If you really are struggling with color correcting images, and was not just saying it as an example, look into manual white balance (and of course flash for close-up), perhaps with an...