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I will see moalboal in november. Oslob, Simulon Island (both 1 dive), Pescador Island, sardine run and mating mandarin fish I have booked. The turtles are there on the beach is told to me, so I will try to find a way to get a tank for a snorkeldive on my own.

I think Wibble tries to get an answer of an THINKING diver, not from someone who just follow what is told how to do it. We all want to become thinking divers I believe and not the one who states: 'When diving to 30.2 m depth you will die if you don't use 21/35. And air is a bad gas to use. In...

Is this different from others? At least with other agencies you don't need to renew a card by paying every 2 year. But a non profit organization in my country means the organization is not allowed to make profit. But they can have employees like a founder who gets a very very high salary as CEO...

I read here a lot of things that are also dependent on the intelligence of a person. And the natural talents a diver has. Theory, for some divers very difficult, already in open water. Pressure? Gases getting less volume on depth? Gases in your body causing dcs? Quite a lot of divers will pass...

I am one of the best DIR divers in the world. I promote 'Doing it Relaxed. :D Every diver, like in every sport or whatever is human. And humans like it in most cases to belong to a group. And this means people start stating themselves as different or better than others. Padi is for everybody...

Are the ingredients of 'sea drops' that different from shampoo? Sea Clearly Reef Friendly Mask Defog | Stream2Sea ( know, no sea drops as I cannot find ingredients) Ingredients Our eco-friendly mask defog is made with only the safest ingredients, including Deionized Water, Aloe Barbadensis...

Muck diving or small critters means the same: no colorfull coralreefs, but a bottom full of sand on a place where you normally won't dive, only biologists and photographers will come there. In my opinion it is just something commercial. But if you are not photographer and no biologist, muck...

I know they went a bit into DIR, but this means a lot of divers cannot use this center anymore.

I have made a reservation with a divecenter and said: we want to do these and these dives. And they agreed. I expect then that they do what we have asked for and not say yes and do no.

In 2020, there was no problem renting tanks as a solodiver from Buddy dive.

Here another diver that does not like muckdiving. Or only for 1-2 dives. We go to Moalboal and Malapascua. I haven't been there, so cannot tell how it really was. We have booked from Moalboal Pescador Island, Oslob (yes, Whalesharks :D) and Simulon Island. In Malapascua of course the sites...

Maybe you are allowed to do something like advanced nitrox or tec40 with a single tank and a stage, but then it is for sure no tech and I don't teach it that way. I explain people why this will not work. Single tank and a stage is in my eyes 'Bonaire tech', it works when you want to dive longer...

I am not a doctor. But I have seen people diving with a stent, so that would not be the problem. But I don't now if there are other things against diving. The age, 72 is not an age that it means you are too old for diving. I have seen older divers, till 89. It depends on how fit you are...

First, what is a healthy bmi? There is no single healthy bmi. The bmi <=25 is healthy is developed for the western white man with a length of 1.80m. This means that if you are a woman it is already different. I am a woman of 1.82, so longer than average. I have never had a bmi <=25, as if I...

I use flexhoses on a lot of regulators, but NOT on my longhose. It is a floating hose and that is the problem. It can get behind your valves. Otherwise, some flexhoses are quite rough and can damage a neckseal. I like colors, so have them in a lot of colors on stages, as drysuit inflator hose...

Yes I mean that. We call that here in the Netherlands a deflator of 'uitlaatventiel'. So maybe it is a little bit a 'dutch-english' word. Argo Deflator voor dry suit Here it was that. Have you tried HD latex seals if they don't leak?

Ok, this will be a long long answer. But I have to write. I have to react about 3 things: experience, risks when teaching and helping others. I have to react first about the 2 years of experience. I see here a lot of opinions as this is impossible, not enough experience, blabla. But we don't...

I had the same with an almost brand new suit. And it turned out it was the deflator on the left arm. But now I can replace seals with the smartseals in less than 1 minute ;) I have replaced the seals several times with new ones, cleaned ones, etc, but the leak came from the deflator. With...

If I swim, I am very bouyant, to get under I have to swim very hard. So this does not work for everybody. In fresh water to do freediving I need 3kg of weight, in salt it is more. When I dive and need to do a negative Entry, I don't fin down, I just let me go down. This does not cost any...

Why are you wearing gloves? Is there something dangerous to touch it with your skin? :wink: And did you test it under water? Did you make a video of that? I am curious about its performance under water.