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I got a thin neporene hood on my last trip to Fiji after sunburning my head which worked well. It was probably like 2mm with a velcro chin strap, nothing fancy. Sort of like this: https://www.scuba.com/p-xssb2xl/xs-scuba-2mm-tropic-beanie-xx-large

Sure you can get a 2 pack of random Chinese cells on Amazon for a few dollars less. I'm assuming Kraken does some level of due diligence and QC on their battery supplier, so you're also paying for that. Or you can roll the dice on Amazon. But we're talking about like $20-30 here, not like...

dropped prices again, still have both

Just buy the right battery from Kraken: https://krakensports.ca/product/battery-21700-nr-1500-nr-1500z-hydra-1500/

CLR, and a brush to scrub off as much of the corrosion as you can, then some PB blaster or WD40 and let it soak and hopefully drip down into the threads for 24 hours or so. You don't really need to be gentle since it's the bolts fused to the aluminum tray, not the acrylic housing. So impact...

Yeah, if the resort takes USD for things like drinks and whatnot, which isn't uncommon, they might be able to help you exchange some. Though they may not have a massive amount of cash on hand.

I'm sure you can find ATM's or exchanges in the airport, either with a higher/no limit, or enough of them to get what you need. Sometimes dive guides are other nationalities, in which case yeah I imagine they wouldn't care as much. Some resorts/liveaboards are also foreign owned, so deal with...

I also started out on a Ranger BC. Turns out that I didn't do nearly as much cold water diving as warm water, and as many people do I quickly learned about streamlining and backplate/wing setups as I got more experience. They really should do a better job steering OW students towards BP/W...

Interesting concept. Seems sort of like the phone housings where instead of direct tactile control you basically have a computer/app in the housing that you sync with the camera either wirelessly or via a cable. So instead of pressing a mechanical button on the housing which actuates the same...

I'm one of those people who enjoy booking travel and figuring out flights, hotels, and so forth, so I never use a travel agent. I'm going to Raja Ampat in January and it wasn't really very difficult to manage the bookings myself. Step one I did some light recon on flights from where I am to...

Haven't done it, but I think I watched some videos or found a DIY guide on it a while back. Maybe this one: https://waterpixels.net/forums/topic/1028-my-ikelite-strobe-battery-rebuild/ This guy sourced all his own components and bought a cheap spot welder. Did it the right way and seems to...

How are you tying it? There's a specific way to tie bolt snaps to things using cave line, and if you do it right they shouldn't come undone even without superglue (I just trim and burn the ends). There's some good videos on Youtube you can check out.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/papua-new-guinea-travel-advisory.html https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/pacific/papua-new-guinea You should definitely do a lot of research before travelling to a country like PNG. I'm not saying it can't...

I'd use another drug with more data on it like malarone or doxy. There are some drugs like melfoquine which have side effects which aren't conducive to diving, and given the lack of reliable data/studies on tefenoquine I wouldn't roll those dice. At the very least you need to have a detailed...

Going in January. I've already been vaccinated for polio as a child, and had both hepatitis series more recently. So I'm planning on getting a typhoid vaccination, either malarone or doxy for malaria, and probably a z-pack in case of bacterial GI stuff or anything like that.

bump, need to get rid of these

Not the OP, but I've been there in both early January (summer) and late June (winter). Average water temp in January was around 84F, and in June around 82F. From my dive computer readings.

Nothing wrong with just wanting a single strobe, as long as you realize you'll be somewhat limited in terms of wide angle especially larger subjects. For macro it's perfectly fine though, and actually more desirable than two strobes in certain cases. That said, I'd encourage you to decide...

I think there's two issues with the Teric battery, which are being confused in many cases: 1 - The battery likes to lose charge over time when idle, faster than you'd expect in most other small electronics. Note that this issue largely doesn't affect performance (assuming you charge before...

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