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So unless you are exclusively a vacation diver and only go to dive centers with the Avelo system, what is the point? You have to master buoyancy otherwise. And you need to master buoyancy in case of failure. So why bother? For those who have made the effort to properly weigh themselves, do...

They are a great group. For guiding, never heard of it.

Are you connected at all with the Maui Mantas FB group? No.

Maybe he can share a cell with @Omisson (Ex-NYC councilman indicted on child porn charges after arrest at Miami airport).

While I took fundies, my expectation is that your course will be incredibly intense and exhausting. Try to be well rested and well hydrated prior. But you will be ecstatic in the end as your course will be nothing like you've taken before and will forever change your persecption of scuba...

Was there a civil suit against Snow? @Subfiend would have to answer that. There's a saying in my native Holland that you can't pluck feathers from a naked chicken. Not all of us are legal experts, and @Omisson can't chime in as he's in legal trouble yet again, but we seem to be in agreement...

There is a jetry going out to the island (or close to it, can't quite tell from Google maps and my memory doesn't serve me). Obviously you can't walk on the jetty with gear. But you could go along it and. It worry about getting run over by a boat. It is a good distance in total, along the...

And that's a huge loss to the region. His prices were too low and I enjoyed some epic dives for that boat. Big difference between Waadah and anything within the Sound. I'm still kicking myself for not going when a buddy surfaced next to orcas.

Darn it. Bill shut down. Oh that just feeds my new nemesis! :rofl3: :stirpot::poke: In all seriousness, I would scooter out to Waddah Fingers. Have you tried it? I did find a few posts where you are discussing diving there.

well, there's a charter that moves his boat from Seattle to Neah Bay. That's 300 miles, but he is running amazing trips in the summers. Best diving in the state. Reasonable refund policy. It really comes down to the person running the operation.

So one of the reasons I advocate people seek training from RAID is their more rigorous IDC/IE process and their objective performance requirements for skills, something the industry sorely lacks. I recently learned how the students are more involved in the QA process where they have to sign off...

Chunk of rusted out metal from the Mentor, a brig that sank in 1802 carrying antiquities stolen from Greece. What it will be after all the corrosion is removed, who knows?

and that is a completely reasonable policy. I wouldn't hesitate to sign up on your boat. And if we get blown out, I'd treat you for dinner that night.

I may have not gone to med school, but I'm still a Doctor of Love :stirpot: (everyone, feel free to vomit at the thought :yeahbaby:)

I shouldn't jump back in here, but come on. And how does that work? How does someone in Japan find someone somewhere in the world, or even local? That's Forrest Gump's million dollar wound. Pain in the .... I can't believe that is being suggested. Here's the thing. You say you never have...

Maybe @Darcy Kieran can chime in as he's studied/published data about it.

Does safety include insufficient staff being available? Or not enough customers?

I can't speak for everyone in the world, but no one reasonable has a problem with paying a deposit that they lose if they flake out. I'm all for the dive charter keeping that, as then they are losing revenue. I, and others, do have a problem when the charter cancels for whatever reason. Now...

Risk is shared. Customers who fly in risk not being able to dive when it was their plans to do so. But no one controls the weather. So it is what it is. To me, the solution is simple. Just travel to places where dive charters have a reasonable refund policy. No limit to those. You've...

That's completely fair. Deposits should be ensuring that the dive op has revenue WHEN operating. If they decide to cancel, it doesn't matter if no one signed up that day, they were not making any income. And I would expect (someone like @Wookie can comment) that a business would base their...