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LOL Just pull as many tanks as you need for night shore diving before 6 pm. Put the tanks in your locker if you wanna get paranoid. Dive all night long if you want. I've done multiple night dives at Scuba Club over the past 20 years. I like to go out right at dark, and then jump back in for...

Quite simple. While diving, make friends with people you like. Share contact information. Plan a dive trip together. Make more friends on that dive trip. Repeat.

Take up cave diving. You'll get plenty of diving in darkness. There are literally thousands of resorts with good night diving. I've stayed at many resorts with great night diving, and I've done a couple hundred solo night dives at these resorts. There is infinitely more opportunity for night...

We used the inter-island ferries. No flying except to go back to Guayaquil.

I had a Nitrox stick and a bank of bottles I filled with EAN32. I kept the lines clean since I had EAN32 at 4,500 PSI. I tore down all the lines, valves, gauges, etc. Ultrasonic cleaning to O2 standards. Fresh o-rings. Then I got an air quality analysis. Also checked CO levels with every fill.

I had a personal compressor and gas mixing station, but I operated it like a commercial shop as far as QA is concerned. I did an annual tear down and deep cleaning, and did air quality testing afterwards.

Join the crowd. It's painful. I've retired from a lot of sports and sold off a ton of sporting equipment. Scuba is all I have left.

Headlamps are also great if you're solo diving with a camera.

The dye is quite visible from an aircraft from a long distance. Deploy the dye when you see that an aircraft is in the vicinity, and may be searching for you.

Headlamps are great if you're solo diving. Otherwise, they suck for everyone else who is diving with you.

1. You had plenty of gas at the turn-around point, 1800 psi. Then you had only 700 psi. Did that surprise you? If so, then you should have asked someone to check you for air leaks. 2. During the dive, the entire team should be communicating gas state to each other at regular intervals. Everyone...

PayPal doesn't offer buyer protection. On paper they do, but in reality they don't. That's why I quit using PayPal.

I'll happily eliminate 99.9% of buyers to avoid PayPal. I sell a fair number of things, and always find a buyer on my terms. I've never been ripped off when selling on my terms. The last time I bought something using PayPal was about 5 years ago. I bought a hand-made wool garment from a 90 year...

LOL Receive money - cash, certified bank check, or postal money order Send money - I always have the person send me a Paypal invoice and I pay with a credit card. That way I deal with VISA or AMEX instead of Paypal.

I spent a several weeks in the Galapagos about 15 years ago. We spent most of the time on land tours between the islands, but we also took a 7-day nature cruise. I did manage to get a few days of land-based diving from a operator out of Puerto Ayora. 15 years ago, it was dirt cheap to stay in...

You're just now figuring that out? I quit using Paypal about 20 years ago because of un-ending problems. Since then I have been trying to close my Paypal account, but they refuse to close my account. I have sent certified letters, email, messages, chats, etc. I have spent COUNTLESS HOURS on...

Just a friendly reminder... I used to search for people in open ocean from the air. I recommend that you carry all of the following signal devices, all of the time: Signal mirror Sea dye SMB I carry a regular 1-meter SMB, but I also carry a 3-meter SMB. And sometimes I carry a GPS satellite...

I have two Backscatter video lights. I leave them all the time during night dives, they act as my primary dive light and video lights. There is plenty of juice in those batteries to last an entire dive. I have another set of batteries for my video lights that I keep charged. I switch out the...

Pssst... Beards grow back

Shave the beard for diving