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This is so sad. It's hard to find people like him, who have touched so many people's lives. I just returned from Utila last month and spent a few weeks in my instructor alma mater that UDC was. Ten years after becoming an instructor, I had quite an interesting chat with Andy about diving, tech...

Im looking for a good confined water dive site (shore or some sort of lake) to do CW dives with some volunteers Im teaching for the Seashepherd Society. This is a fully non profit thing and that's why logistics are complicated. I do have all the equipment et all, but can't find a suitable site...

I strongly believe it is easier to learn partially neutral (or neutral), referring to any position that embraces the inherent instability of being floating in mid water. The thing is, when you are "bolted" to the bottom, it is REALLY hard to be bolted. You end up floating away a bit. There is a...

Ive been teaching fully neutral for 3 years now. I can't stress how good the results have been. Im just wrapping up a new OW class next week, and I can tell you that the two students are doing just fine and much better than any "bolted" student would be making by now. Just the other day while...

Im in shock Peter, Lynne is probably the person I identify the most with everything I respect about proper diving ... in every respect. I send you my warmest thoughts ... This saddens me so much. I have no words. Great woman, great human being.

I did the Jardines thing two years ago. Here are some notes: - There is no internet in cuba. There is no internet in cuba. Dont waste your time looking for it. Yes, people will tell you there is, you will buy cards, you will try wifi connections; it doesn't work, because it doesn't work island...

First you need to choose location. As suggested I would probably go for West End in Roatan or Utila. The former caters more to slightly better and more experienced divers, as well as a bit more mature people in general. The latter if you prefer younger, more party-like nightlife, lots and lots...

I think you should hit Utila in Honduras. Life there is reasonably inexpensive, you can get good diving, good courses and it's a lot of fun. Many options on where to stay, and for a backpacker it won't be a problem. My own personal reco con the island is UDC (Utila Dive Center), ran by Andy...

techie selfie San Francisco Maru Truk Lagoon, 50m, JJ CCR

Seems to me you are doing things wrong during your "post production" phase; during the grading and the compression portions of it I believe. If you don't know what you are doing, stay away from ProTune for example. Your video appears to be very low contrast compared to the other video. It also...

I understand, but the problem lies in distance. Getting to where you sail off takes a while. You take a bus there. It doesn't make sense to go through all that trouble for 3 days. That's why they don't offer that option. You will loose one day in and one day out of Jardines ... Now, Isla de la...

Jardines de la Reina is far off. You need to travel for half a day or so to get there. The only option is liveaboard because of the remote location from shore. Tortuga, this sort of floating hotel, is close to the diving, but still you need to take a long trip to get to Tortuga. Jardines is a...

I recently installed one in my Subal 5d MKii housing, and I love it! (the one from Backscatter). It really does give me a newfound confidence in taking my housing in the water :)

CR123 batteries! They are going to love you if you take a few boxes of those. Lot's of torches use them and they are not available in Chuuk. Any dive gear you leave the guides behind, they will appreciate. Regs, BCDs, torches, dive computers. It's a good way to avoid overweight charges on the...

I am no expert in cruise ship diving from Phuket. But let me tell you Phuket is one of the worst places on earth to dive. The sites and the dives are nothing to write home about, and the sheer logistics of diving from Phuket are just ... the worst. Im going to get some flack from local...

So you start in pressure group D, so you need to start at the backside of the RDP (it is a repetitive dive). Find where 12m and column D intercept: it gives two numbers. Being a repetitive dive, we want to find the RNT (residual nitrogen time) so we can add it to the next calculation. That...

The gate will find a way to open itself up wether you put it on the outside or the inside, its just the nature of how much twist it's applied. That's why, the foolproof method is to pass the line THROUGH the hole as exemplified by the cave diver's method. WhiteSands, I found a video that...

That's a version of the usual cave way of doing the spools. In a cave you might have 3 or 4 spools hanging out your back, so it makes sense to have an absolutely foolproof system of storing them without fearing them coming undone. Any method which does not pass the line through one of the spool...

Hog wings are fine. They are not the most rugged, compared say to a DSS. But then, what is all this ruggedness about? For the price, it's hard to beat. Good price, good quality. The only thing Im not a fan of in Hog wings is the inflator. I just don't like it. It's a personal thing. I fixed it...

I might have jumped to conclusions in your particular case, that's why I noted to rethink your approach. it just sounded that way. But still that's not the point others made (the tables being outdated for example), which I believe is wrong. From what I remember you CANNOT use the eRDPml to solve...