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After 25 years working in emergency departnents and intensive care units, I've noticed something. When someone says they have a sense of impending doom, they're always correct. Listen to your senses and intuition.

YEAH! Dang auto makers should be put out of business and thrown in jail for all the car crashes!

I carry all of my camera gear in my carry-on. Camera, lenses, batteries, chargers, strobes, accessories, etc. Everything. I always fly business class, and so my checked bags get priority handling, and never get bumped or lost. But it won't do me any good if half of my camera gear is missing at...

Halcyon wetsuit pockets, glued on with Aquaseal

Yes, Key Largo

Just a quick anecdote about this subject. Once I was taking PADI course, and the instructor had all us students kneel on the sand for instruction. I didn't like this, so I floated up off the sand and hovered motionless about one foot above the sand. Suddenly a student Nazi, I mean PADI DM...

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No diving on Sri Lanka

We went from Boston to London, and spent a week exploring London. Then we flew London > Paris > Sri Lanka > Male. We only fly business class nowadays, getting too old to tolerate 16 hours in economy or even economy plus. We arrived in Male well rested and feeling good. On the way home we...

No. The Red Sea may be one of the world's great dive destinations, but the negatives far outweigh the positives. I've been around the world twice, visited 50 countries. Egypt ranks up there with places like Pakistan as one of the stinkiest and filthiest and most disgusting countries I have...

I never jump in with my camera. The impact and water backlash can damage the camera or open latches. Once I jumped in the water with a full size Nikon in a Nauticam housing. The water impact popped open the housing latches and the $2,400 camera flooded. Get in the water without your camera...

I think I have one for sale. Search in the classifieds.

Good plan. I recommend renting all of your equipment until you've been out diving and see your options. Gear is expensive, get a better feel for what does and doesn't work for you before buying anything. Don't cave to pressure from your local dive shop. From day #1 I absolutely HATED the...

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I have an Oylmpus TG-6 and only shoot video. That camera eats batteries. I have to change the battery on the boat after every dive. I've been around the western Pacific, equatorial Indonesia, and South Pacific, and never had my housing fog after a battery change. I rinse my camera and then dry...

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All natural-light video.

We saw some mating Mandarin fish. A group of 4 photographers surrounded the fish for about 15 minutes, laying on the reef to get their photos. No one else got close. On our first day of diving we saw about 20 Thresher sharks. Then a bunch of dive boats came in for Easter week and the sharks...

I made a 5-minute video of our trip to Malapascua Island. We spent 3 weeks traveling to Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, and the PI. We met friends from Europe in Singapore, and we all flew together to Cebu for a week of diving on Malapascua.

If the weather is bad, you might not make it out to Osprey. Big swells can make for a really rough ride. I did 10 years in the Navy but the rough ride out to Osprey made me seasick. But once you are there... unforgetable.