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I'm not sure it's really an age thing, more an experience thing, though I think most agencies require at least 18. Instead of starting out with the intention of going straight through to trimix why not just spend time going through adv nitrox, then gain experience diving with a single stage...

Give Don Lees a ring, though he's not doing much diving these days he's got a fab file full of hand drawn maps and directions for dive sites throughout Scotland gathered over 30 years. He should be able to point you in the direction of likely characters who are in the area - and he's alwmost...

I just came back from a week on Grand Sea Serpent diving Brothers, Daeldalus and Elphinstone. Whilst there were some reasonably strong currents and it's all wall diving it's not actually particularly demanding - and diving with my daughter when she saw her first gray reef shark closely followed...

That wouldn't be the dreaded Boddam Quarry would it? ! Rosehearty is quite nice, and close to Aberdeen though. Once you get slightly further North than Aberdeen, there are some fabulour wrecks in the Moray Firth

We had 15m vis, lots of caves/tunnels etc off the far NE corner of Scotland, and more seals than you could count off Stroma :) it was even hot sunshine on Saturday - the water is a balmy 13 deg at the moment The Pentland Firth is completely blown out probably for the rest of the week, but we...

Having knocked something, which then fell over and the movement silted the place out in a wreck I thought I knew well - found my way out more by luck than good management many years ago - unless I can see daylight _and_ not be in a tight squeeze to get in or out - then I'll run a line. I'll be...

Having knocked something, which then fell over and the movement silted the place out in a wreck I thought I knew well - found my way out more by luck than good management many years ago - unless I can see daylight _and_ not be in a tight squeeze to get in or out - then I'll run a line. I'll be...

There is nothing technical about wreck diving at it's most basic level, nor does it require any special training, just an awareness of your surroundings. What makes you think anyone is pushing anyone else to a 'higher' level? - not that I would necessarily regard deco/deeper diving as 'higher'...

Nothing at all wrong with being a recreational diver - if you can see what you want to see in the required depths/times. However it does depend very much on where/when you dive and where you live. In the UK, diver's are taught deco diving right from day 1, though they may never actually go into...

Try Pix's website Home and click on the Ireland bit - there's definitely some film of the Luisitania on there, but I can't remember if it shows any penetration pictures - or even if there is enough to penetrate. More accessible liner's off Ireland, both definitely worth aiming for are the...

Not that I'm countint down the days or anything, but we're off to Marsa Alam in a fortnights time :) - headed further south though to Rocky, Daedalus etc. We've booked the whole boat between us, so guarenteed good company and no manic divers. First time my daughter has dived outside of Scotland...

It sounds as though you were seriously overweighted before starting out - I had a major suit flood last week, which flooded my suit to about half way up my thighs once I eventually managed to stand back up again - so of the same order as yours. From a weighting point of view it made very little...

I sometimes dive solo, simply because I enjoy the peace and serenity of having a wreck to myself, or perhaps I'm away and would prefer not to dive with an unknown diver. That said there are additional risks which go hand in hand with diving alone, and whilst they can be minimised, they cannot...

For a very new diver an AI computer is way overkill, continuos checking/fumbling of gauges is simply someone who is new to the sport and not yet relaxed and/or familiar with kit layout - specially if at least some diving has been done on rented kit. I've had both AI computer, which I didn't...

There's a video of me somewhere making a complette pigs ear of putting up a lift bag whilst on air at about 60m or so - if asked at the time, I'd've said it went fine - (un)fortunately the video evidence says otherwise - and it took alsmot 2 minutes to do it. I don't do much in the way of...

Just write your name or initials in large letters in indelible ink on your dsmb - that way the boat knows where everyone is, and that they are ok and on deco - mine also has coffee, black no sugar on it - that way the boat will know everyone is running according to their max run times. It's...

weird, I've been to some of what are described as the worlds best sites - but the sites I enjoy most are simply at home in scotland - scapa flow, the deep wrecks off the ne coast of scotland, shetland etc - none of which are mentioned as apart from scapa they have to be dived independantly and...

Perhaps, however in our local training, I would expect a diver to be able to hold a midwater stop, before I signed them off as a sport diver. We also routinely use dsmb's, so being able to shoot a bag is required as well - being able to put a bag up is harder than being able to hang midwater. In...

With all due respect, if a diver cannot hold a midwater stop without a line, then they shouldn't be there in the first place

I guess it's probably not available in the US, but I like the scotsac logbook - unless I'm training I don't always fill in all the details, but there's enough space for important info like gps and tide info