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Yes, you need to be age 50 for that but if you are talking about retirement I am assuming you are at least 50. Fees are $360 per year after first year you can pay 3 years at a time. More or less the same as tourist visa renewals but only annually or every 3 years instead of every 2 or 6 months...

My basic health coverage included diving as long as I am within my certification limits and do not dive solo. I would be concerned that if I was a little far from my buddy that they could call it a solo dive and deny coverage. My health insurance also has high deductibles which DAN does not...

Precovid I met several people who lived in Hong Kong or Japan, they could fly to the Philippines, dive 3 or 4 times a day for a long weekend, fly home and save money overall compared to doing the same number of dives at home. Generally my cost per dive including boat, sanctuary fees has ranged...

I use Diving Log 6.0. I have it on my phones, tablet and PC. I just use Dropbox to keep all devices in sync. I tried a couple of others but found Diving Log more to my liking and it was more reliable at connecting to mt AL i300c At the end of the dive when I am having post dive refreshments, I...

Everyone says dive numbers don't count. They why is that the only dive statistic that dive shops ask? (They only ask certification level and number of dives, never total bottom time, never variety of dive types, never average SAC etc.)

A few years ago I bought a 53 ft used semi trailer. It had been a reefer unit so had insulated walls. I converted it into a construction site office trailer, but it would had made a great diving trailer with room for sleeping, shower, washroom, cooking etc. It was only $CDN 6,000 prior to...

My dive history is divided into two distinct parts. I certified in 95/96 and right away bought full cold water gear, tanks etc. Then I bought compressor, dry suit, more tanks, camera housing. Add in training costs OW,AOW a couple specialties. Total cost then was about $8,000. In my first 23...

Pretty much. I am neutral with zero air in my BC and 50 bar in the tank. That means at the start of the dive I need 2 kg positive or 2 litre air in my BCD. If I go deep to 40 m then inflate to get neutral, I put 10 litre of surface pressure air in my BC, less than 1 bar on a 11 litre tank. That...

I don't get the crashing into the reef??? I start my decent with full tanks, empty BCD and mostly exhaled. I can stop my decent, not as quickly as inflating the BC, simply by taking in a huge lungful.

When I was in my OW class, I was told that some people do it to save on air consumption, they would be using air that otherwise would be wasted but the instructor also said that this was false ecpon0my as you would lose almost as much as you would save. I have seen a couple YouTube videos also...

I always thought that people who require SAR services due to stupidity should be responsible for the cost of those services.

I always believe in having any system that is critical have a redundant back up. My first (non diving) computer experiences were in the 70s when electronic systems were no where near as fail safe as they are now so backups, redundant systems is now just second nature to me. My reg set came with...

The missing skill here was not buoyancy control but doing the basic pre-dive checks. He should have tested his suit infiltrator, that would have caught the problem. Had the infiltrator come off in the water, he could have used his BCD to provide sufficient lift to surface, if his BCD was...

If you are properly weighted you should have no trouble descending with normal air volume in your lungs. With an 11 l tank you will lose 2 kg mass of air going from 200 to 50 bar. If you are neutral for your safety stop at 50 bar you will be 2 kg heavy at the start of the dive, that is...

I have my weight pretty much dialed in so I inflate my BCD a little once I reach depth to counteract the mass of air in the tank.Over the course of the dive I gradually release air to compensate for the loss of air in the tank and the fact that I gradually decrease depth as the dive progresses...

My cold water wet suit is a farmer john plus shorty. It gives overlap on the core helping maintain heat. I have used the shorty alone a couple of times in the summers so there is some flexibility. Downside is it takes a little squirming to get all the air out on initial decent but it is very...

Just buy it in your grand or great grand kids names.

Number one item on my bucket list, beat his record. Only 35 years to go. Is it too early to call in the Guineas Record people to give them a head up?

Be cautious in comparing pricing. While the course cost appears to be pretty comparable, you need to look at the inclusions and exclusions. Gear, in or rental, dive area fees in or out, boat fees in or out, agency fee in or out, etc. Right now I am diving with Cebu Dive Centre in Moalboal...

Take a mesh bag, put the wet suit in it. Put it in the water, work it around to get the air out of it, Take weights off your belt or out of the pouches until you can sink the bag with the wet suit in it. Leave that amount of weight, or slightly less, on shore when you dive. Adjust as...