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I talk about a real camera (with strobes and all the other ****), not about a gopro. I have seen divers who took this directly after a course in a cave. Further I don't say that diving without a cave cert is a good idea (no, it isn't), but I can understand why people do it. And this is because...

I don't know where to save money. If you don't fail a course, even not if you progress directly, this means you can do the dives on the higher level if you want directly and have more fun. But you ALSO have the option to do the dives on the lower level. There is then a choice. There are no...

Divers not ready, that is what I agree with. But this is also something you cannot avoid. I have refused some divers too, but then they went to another. So there will always be an option to get a card. (or print it yourself, I have really seen a fake CDS cave instructor card). And yes, maybe if...

With intro to cave you can do T's, this is navigation on the mainline. They call jumps 'complex' navigation. I believe TDI had in earlier days (don't know nowadays) that T's were not allowed in intro to cave. I see it quite a lot that people do first intro to cave and then 6-12 months later...

Maybe, but it is how humans are, they do sometimes stupid things. Nobody can ignore or deny it.

That is true, but also not true. I see here in Europe that the cave1/intro to cave limits are broken in less than 5 dives after the course. Or it are the gasrules that are strengthened to 1/3, or it is the deco, do a jump, or they take an extra stage cylinder to get more bottomtime. This is...

I use Ikea Ladda already for years.

A new battery in it will not solve your problem. I have my second D5, first one stopped working under water in less than 2 years with the words: fatal system error, contact your Suunto dealer. Then I got a new one under warrantee. So far so good, it is working. But BOTH show in the morning 10 or...

Riverdiving is teached in Europe in Swiss near Verzasca for example. So there is a specialty programm for it. I don't know what you will learn that you cannot figure out yourself, but I can tell you that diving in some rivers is really fun. I cannot help you with options in Florida, I have only...

Garmin offers more for less money. The descent 1 can go to 100m depth and is now under 400, and can do trimix and ccr, AND gives you FREE trainingplans with one of the 3 Garmin coaches up to the half marathon and you can import for a full marathon from Garmin. Also is Garmin connectable with...

These are the blacktips from the beach, not a really good picture, you see them snorkling, but it is impossible to get good pictures then. The sharks swim away and swim all around. But there were quite a lot then.

I am just back from Moalboal and Malapascua. Have dived with sharks, no swimming. It was really great. We have done: -Whaleshark diving in Oslob. You can also go snorkling, but with diving you have no hurries and get time enough -Diving to see the treshersharks on Malapascua -They went after the...

You always need to have a PO2 of the diluent lower than 1.3 to flush, to bring a PO2 down when needed. That is not special to gue. Remember other agencies already teached ccr long time before gue adopted a ccr. And all the bailout/problem solve strategies are teached by all agencies, even the...

I paid 150 for a complete recreational set with the Scubapro MK17 as first stage and 2 good second stages, 1 bcd, wetsuit, boots, fins, and also 1 12liter steel cylinder (out of test, but I am not worried about that). So 1200 is way too much. Old wetsuits, boots and fins are worth nothing. The...

yes, but if you have just a 10 liter 200 bar, then it is less than an ali80 or ali12 liter 200 bars. The din connection is not strange, everybody dives here din. BUT, and that is a big BUT. I have a key for our clubcompressor. This compressor gives 200 bars, also DIN connection. But the din...

No, the drysuit, and also sidemount are in my opinion the 'could be usefull' courses. Not required, but can be usefull. So I don't see that they are useless, but they are not needed for every diver. Maybe it takes some more time to learn it yourself, but also that is not always true if you go...

And the need of training is very very questionable. For myself I don't need training for this, I will be able to learn it in 1 dive, for sure. It is no rocketscience. It looks like diving a drysuit, a course can be ok if you are unsure, but is not a requirement. And I read about 2lbs positive...

I always show 1 of my technical instructor certs when they ask (I have only once showed them in real, on registration form I fill in instructor in everything: trimix, cave oc and ccr, sidemount, and instructor trainer and then it is always fine, with 3200+ dives and last dives 2 days before...

I would have been offended if I had to do a checkdive and had to pay for it. I know a divecenter in Malta who has this policy, pay 40 euro for a checkdive for technical diving to swim 30 minutes (not 31 or 29, they know exactly the 30 minute round) with a twinset and stages over their housereef...

A checkdive that must take more than 30 seconds must be free and done before the normal dives start, so there is no waiste of time and money for the customer. Otherwise a checkdive is not done. If you observe a diver with kitting up, then you know the most important things already. And in the...