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You may have already gotten all the "answers" you need, but I thought I'd add some real world experience to to give you some perspective. We ran our own sail/diver charter in the Bahamas from our 43' Hunter sailboat. We had a Bauer 8cfm compressor mounted forward of the mast outfitted with twin...

Check with your own car insurance: some carriers allow you to temporarily transfer your policy to another vehicle if your own is sitting in a garage @ home. If that is the case, you'll need to make sure you take your card with you to the island. Check with your credit card: some companies like...

Hope they do something about the outrageous pricing : almost $38/pp!

I think the nudi is either a white spotted or freckled sea hare. The "clam" appears to be a frond oyster because of the valve interlock zig-zag pattern. According to Paul Humann, they tend to be well camouflaged & overgrown by a number of organisms like encrusting sponges and in this case what...

Out & back it's usually the wetsuit pulled up/down to the waist. Most often you don't have enough room to do any sort of wardrobe exchanges on a dive boat. Plus any wave action makes it pretty difficult to do any changes. Once I'm either back at the car or somewhere else on land where I have...

We used this liveaboard: Cairns Liveaboard Scuba Diving - Great Barrier Reef & Cod Hole Cairns.

Both my hubby & myself have been in the Bifocal Club for several years now. All I can say is that the company we deal with (http://www.seavisionusa.com/site/inde) has no problems taking back the mask & re-working it so that it does what it's supposed to do. BTW, underwater optics are different...

This is probably what you don't want to hear, but it's the most prudent course of action: Go to an LDS that carries the BCs you are interested in and try them on with the most likely exposure protection you will be using. There is no way to tell from online information how a BC will fit or even...

ALL my tanks are HP 80s: one is air, the other two dedicated Nitrox. When I'm not able to use my own tanks & have to revert to "standard" AL80s I am not nearly as happy a diver as I am with those steel HP 80s! And yes, I am "vertically challenged" at 5' 4". :D

Just thought I'd point out that you are responding to a thread where the last post was almost a year ago.... :cheeky:

As it happens every PADI Pro is "the PADI police". If a Pro witnesses any violation of PADI Standards, unsafe diving situations, et al, and DOES NOT REPORT the incident to PADI HQ, they are considered to be in violation of PADI Standards and may be sanctioned by PADI HQ themselves.

Since we do a lot of u/w photography where I am actually finding the critters for Pearce to photograph, I signal him by banging the hilt of my knife against my tank. The knife is probably about 6" long & is strapped to the inside of my left leg no matter what thermal protection I'm wearing...

To the left of the thread you will see a double "down arrow" when there is a new posting to a thread since the last time you were on. Also, the thread will be in bold. And of course you can always read the date of the last posting.

I haven't read the whole thread, but have seen some of the responses about bonding lenses to the inside of your mask. Personally, I don't agree with this idea for the main reason is that the optics underwater are different than on land. If you use a good (reputable) company that does...

I may be mistaken, but I believe that if you are an in-status DM (current membership & insurance) you can get an IM free. However, that being said, you should have a current IM because there are courses that insured DMs can teach on their own, exclusive of an Instructor. FWIW,

From the CD Manual: Minimum – when candidates complete online independent study [Total] IDC: 5 days AI Course: 2 days OWSI Program: 3 days Minimum – when all course curriculum delivered in class [Total] IDC: 7 days AI Course: 4 days OWSI Program: 5 days During the IDC you must pass several...

Some great advice. Learn where to look for the information. To help you do this, if your version of the Instructor Manual permits it, BOOKMARK pertinent pages. For example, the Key Standards Chart "Summary of PADI Courses & Programs" on page 24 of the 2012 Instructor Manual is very useful...

There are probably more threads than I can count about the "how to's" of doing your IDC. But NetDoc's point is actually THE MOST IMPORTANT one! People tend to get so tressed out & locked into tunnel vision that they forget that this is a fantastic undertaking that not everyone gets to...

It is said that one's life changes every 7 years. Well, yours just came a little early, is all.... Wishing you success & happiness in whatever path you choose to take. And yes, we're still here to talk to on SB. :D Pax,

I have to admit this I just stumbled across this thread and wow! Sad to read after using D.E.P.P. (Awry Enterprises Inc.) in the past... I hope someone starts a new thread about dedicated dive equipment insurance.:confused: