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And I forgot, most times you will NOT see big differences between computers on the first dives. If you do multiple dives a day and days behind each other, the differences start to appear. This has to do as I said with the calculations of 'offgassing', residual nitrogen. When I teach a cave...

Not anymore as the Heinrich Weihkamp died. But it was a cavedive. 360m at a maximum depth of 11m, then a 100m at 30m, then to 45m. The way back was again the long time at 10m, and the Shearwater counted back, the Heinrich weihkamp did not. I have had the same thing in march on a dive to only...

This is nothing special. It is just about how the software developer implemented the algorithm and the surface intervals. There always can be differences. I could have 55 minutes difference between Heinrich Weihkamp and Shearwater on the same cave dive, just because of how all things are...

No, some with HCM get cleared for diving and some run marathons. In earlier days it was a no for any sports, but now they look what is possible, but also look at the 'happinness' of a diver or sporter. It is now an individual thing, how bad is the hcm, where exactly, etc. I have met a woman...

Where do you read the bad reviews? The google reviews seem to be ok. I have contacted this divecenter and the only thing is they don't have 15 liter tanks, only 12 lites. But further it looks ok. We have now booked Moalboal (FLOIS diving center for diving and transfers including Oslob and...

Yes you an get insurance for that. But it's Europe. There is not stated that you have to be member of a 'recognised' agency. So then all kind of teaching is accepted. Of course there will be checked if safetey rules are followed. But that is not that hard most times of course.

Yes we have, not only in Zeeland. Everybody can use them to fill cylinders. I like it, no shop opening hours, and in Zeeland they are on the parkinglots of the divesites. So after diveyou fill your cylinder again and jump in again, or drive to another site. In Vinkeveen you have also these...

I live in a country where everybody can go diving without cert and everybody can found his own agency and can say I am instructor and is allowed to teach. So I know people who print their own cards for their own agency. Also I know 2 people who teach cave courses without being cave instructor...

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So, let's put some oil on the fire. Wow, it sounds sometimes here as dpv is very very difficult rocket science. It is in my eyes something like sidemount diving or drysuit diving. You can do yourself, you can do a course. But don't take the dpv in a cave on your first dpv dive. So, be critical...

@Damiazuk, I am over 45 and have no 'yes' on the form and I am not lying. I don't use any medicines, can run 10km (but am quite slow, but this is because of some achillestendon problems that came due to sideeffects of the ciproflaxine I had to take due to a serious dogattack a couple of years...

Here doctors make their own form and it just states: Fit to dive without limitations And then a valid thrue, valid from. Sometimes you only get it digitally, sometimes printed. The date format is never a problem in my eyes. I have had: 1 January 2023, 01-11-2024, 01-dec-2024, etc as formats...

I own since a few months also the new Avatar. The smartseals work fine, I don't have problems with them. I have already tried to replace a wristseal, just to know how it works and it can be done in 2 minutes. No manual needed. Further I have done my first cavedives with it and some photography...

In my country, diving has no laws. Everybody can go diving on their own, even everybody can start their own agency and everybody is instructor if they want. There are no rules. For diving, there are no rules and no medicals needed. Also not if you want to do a commercial course from padi, ssi...

We will take a look at the options. Arrival will be around noon in Moalboal, so the next morning we want to dive of course (only 3 days diving there, so do not want to loose any time). 1 day Pescador Island, 1 day Oslob and Sumilon we want to do and then we have a 3rd day left for maybe Pescador...

But even then, a lot of fat does not mean unfit or no muscles. Some have both. So also this is not a way to measure I think. I know people with some 'fat', BMI around 30, but can run over 10km. So they are really fit. The BMI was developped for the western white man of 1.80m. This means for...

My friend and I are looking to visit Cebu. We are sadly limited in time, so 10 nights in total on Cebu is an option. Because of the flight arrival we cannot go to Panglao or Malapascua on the same day. And we want to see the sardines in Moalboal and the Whalesharks in Oslob. We have made a...

Exactly what you write about bmi. Are 'fat' divers directly out of shape? Not everybody with a bmi of 30 is really obese. And some can run 10km or more, so are really in a good condition. And what is out of shape? If a normal diver who can use arms and legs cannot carry his own gear, then you...

No. As long as people who are really healthy and sportive fall dead during football, running, etc, a dive medical will not help. Is it your time, it is your time. A self check list with some risk factors is not bad. The list you have now already.

I have been there in 2020. We made an appointment with a divecenter in Golfo Aranci before we went there. On arrival, we went directly with our rental car from the airport to the divecenter and then us was told they were full because a group also did an inquiry and that fitted the owner better...