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Like others have said, Dinner Plain to Jervis Bay is a long way for a day trip. It's a 9 hour drive from Lysterfield or Dinner Plain to Jervis Bay, and its over mountain ranges so altitude will be a consideration on the return trip. Lysterfield to Portsea is definitely doable. If you do end up...

Another one I used at one point was Lightworks (Lightworks - Easy to Use Pro Video Editing Software). It's capable enough, but once I discovered Resolve I never looked back. I felt that I always needed to re-learn Lightworks every time I fired it up after a a break of a month or two. Although...

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I was on Mermaid II for their Bali-Komodo-Bali trip in June this year. As far as liveaboards go, there are certainly better equipped vessels out there, but value for money was excellent. The boat crew and dive crew were all great. There's nothing I would complain about unless I really wanted to...

Sounds to me like you just described the Avelo system

I would suggest taking photos of the equipment, make sure to include serial numbers if they have them.

You won't feel out of place in Cairns. It's a pretty chill and friendly town with a large transient population of travelers.

@Tina L it would serve you well to listen to locals in Australia, or better still Australian locals in Queensland. Yes, there is coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef. And there is coral bleaching almost everywhere in the world. The GBR is 1500 miles long. There are some places that are...

It's hard to beat Davinci Resolve. The learning curve can be quite steep, but it doesn't need to be if you stick to just basic editing. There are literally thousands of tutorials on YouTube, from beginner right through to stupidly advanced stuff. Like all video editing software, it does require...

I've mentioned the 254 bar thing previously: https://scubaboard.com/community/threads/ratio-ix3m2-transmitter-on-hp-cylinders.641246/ Yes, disappointing. Wouldn't have been much harder to use a pressure sensor rated to 400 bar and give the full range. It does capture the start and end...

Expect a wetsuit to be tight, and also to an extent uncomfortable in the shop. Especially if its warm, and you're sweating a bit trying on different wetsuits. You want it to be snug, and it will be more comfortable when its wet - the water will provide lubrication against your skin. The neoprene...

Since humans eat McDonalds burgers and consume copious amounts of soft drink, it must be OK. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00145/full Bread feeding was shown to decrease taxonomical diversity in areas where controlled bread feeding occurred...

I have a Nanight Tech2 and Sport. Both have performed very well IMO, and have had no issues with them at all. Support from Nanight has been excellent too. Both of mine I purchased before they had the external charge port, and they were happy to send all the components, step by step instructions...

You definitely seem to have something against Australia. Maybe you aren't the best person to offer advice on diving here. Especially on the Great Barrier Reef, any guidelines and regulations are established by the GBR Marine Park Authority, which is an independent government agency and doesn't...

There are not any national laws that control diving in Australia. Like anywhere else in the world, the diving industry in Australia is largely self governing, with some additional OH&S requirements added in under the tourism umbrella. If you are going to mention Australia's "different" national...

The Heinrichs Weikamp OSTC computers are all excellent computers. The Ratio computers are all excellent computers. The Shearwater computers are all excellent computers. None of them are cheap. I have an OSTC2. I have a Ratio iX3M2 GPS. I've never owned a Shearwater. For me, the Ratio wins...

No, I'm not repeating what you said. Mike Ball's Spoilsport is *the* premier GBR liveaboard, and has been since the 1990's. If you couldn't find Spoilsport in 2019, you weren't looking very hard!! You also implied that they run short trips of 3-4 days, and you can do 2 or more together. When...

Both Spoilsport and Spirit of Freedom to Coral Sea trips, and both offer fly/dive packages, which is cruise Cairns to Lizard Island and fly back, or the other way around. Both vessels only have twin share, no singles, and highly unlikely they'll want you sleeping in the lounge. They also both...

I've never dived Lady Elliot, so can't really offer any advice there. Most of the liveaboards depart Cairns, which is readily accessible by domestic airlines via major Australian airports (eg Sydney/Brisbane) with A320 or 737 size aircraft. Lady Elliot is a bit more remote, and is accessibly via...

That's plain misinformation. Mike Ball (Spoilsport) and Spirit of Freedom are the go-to liveaboards out of Cairns, and both have been running for more than 20 years. They both typically run 7-8 days trips, some of which you can disembark half way for an island flight back. There are also a...