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Again, thank you for your reply. It has given me peace of mind that, provided I get a good job this time, my diving days are not yet over.

Thank you for replying to my post. I am 67, had bilateral tkr 2.5yrs ago. One is ok, the other wasn’t right from the start. Now discovered that I have rotated components so maltracking patella, loose tibial component and need a total revision. I have been on 3 dive holidays since my tkrs, could...

The diving is not up to much, but the sea is lovely and warm in the summer! Also much better access to SE Asia, Maldives, Red Sea than from Ontario.

Total knee replacement

Due to a bodged tkr, I now face a total revision. Would like to hear from anybody who has gone back to scuba after this. I am used to diving using only one leg after my tkr, but would dearly like to regain the use of both legs again. Need some encouragement.

Have e mailed them. Thank you

Next week! But thank you for your reply

Hurriedly arranging a trip to Indo. Have to stay in Bali to start with. Never been to Bali, no time to spend hours searching, and only spending three days before travelling on for liveaboard. Please can any of you locals recommend a dive resort that is close to Denpasar, don’t want lengthy...

Sad. I wish well to all the lovely people I have met in Indonesia, including you, Indah, briefly in Halmahera. Stay safe and hope to meet again soon.

Those that are telling you that you don’t have the experience for the Maldives are wrong. We learned to dive there. We were both very comfortable in the water, and within a couple of weeks had been in reasonable current, mastered negative entries etc. We have, now, done over 500 dives there...

There are positives to flying round the world to dive. There are marine reserves and protected areas that would have been dynamited into rubble, it provides an income and alternative to the above for communities in remote areas, and creates an interest in, an awareness of and a sense of...

My husband is much older than I, he’s 76. We have been diving a long time, and with him, fitness and experience has compensated for falling levels of strength, and we coped much better than most younger people in adverse conditions. However, at the end of last year he got bent. The reason? The...

I know I am going to get shot down in flames here... The worst damage to reefs and harassment of wild life I see on dives is caused by photographers. Otherwise good and considerate divers kicking off a piece of table coral trying to get the hundredth shot of a wobbegong that day, shining huge...

Have heard that the Indonesian vaccination programme is now reaching the more remote areas. Let’s hope that this is the pathway to getting getting things back to some kind of normality for all those in the dive industry, and for us to get back into their wonderful underwater world.

I’m having a double TKA on Tuesday, how soon did you dive after yours?

Oh dear Dan! When you finally make it back to Indo, take a fresh look at groups of multi coloured Crinoidea and admire the beauty of the vivid colours and the strangeness of these creatures. I spend my last dive of any trip just looking at the all the things I normally ignore and rediscovering...

Thank you for explaining. So tricky, but not impossible.

That’s a very definitive answer, Indah. May I respectfully ask, what makes you so sure, is it some kind of official announcement, or is it the general opinion of those in the tourist industry? Is there really no hope of good news for the NewYear?

We have three trips to eastern Indo booked for ‘21, all rescheduled. The first is in February. Anybody think there is any chance of that one happening?

Thank you Dan. So frustrating, to keep postponing trips and not to know when we can get back to Indo.