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Hello all, I have recently learned that I will be spending a week in Grand Cayman on someone else's budget. I have never spent any time there and hope that some of you have and can give me some good advice. Lodgings are already set. We are staying on 7 mile beach. Favorite Dive Sites-I may...

Nothing wrong with my BC, a Zeagle Stiletto with almost 200 dives on it. But although I dive within recreational limits, I am toying with the idea of switching over to a BP/W for two reasons: 1) streamlining here at home in NC, I dive a HP steel 100 and require no weight with a singles rig...

Hello all. I am making my third jaunt to LC soon. It is funny, I am not a creature of habit, but the diving and the whole setup are so good that I keep wanting to go back. I am thinking of trying Pirate's point this time rather than Little Cayman BR. I am limited to those two at this point as...

I am taking Rescue soon (only two years after I first scheduled it!!!) and need to ask something specific about the prerequisites. I have to take the Professional Rescuer CPR course (I'm lapsed at present) which from what I can tell does not include First Aid. I'm guessing because it assumes...

Hi, I dive recreational profiles only but have been doing deep stops for quite some time as we dive to the edge of recreational limits frequently here in NC. My feeling was that it was a good thing to add to my dive plan in order to reduce my risk of DCI. I was at a dive gathering the other...

It's making me nuts! It would seem that the taller a woman is, the more likely she is to wear a larger size. I was looking in one manufacturer's catalog today. The 10Tall will fit a woman 5'9" to 6' tall. The next size up, 12, which is not available in a tall, fits a women 5'6' to 5'9". And...

I thought it was because a user couldn't like their own post. But Dandy Don pointed out that there was no icon on my posts? I'll live either way.

I need to buy a wreck reel instead of always borrowing one and am having a hard time deciding on which type/brand. I'm also interested in your opinion about length and type of line. I'm assuming a length of 200-300 feet, but that is as far as I have gotten. I have used a number of...

Any chance I could talk you into bringing my now dry boots back and dropping them into the mail? I left them up on the deck to dry just long enough to forget that they were there. It wasn't that easy to find boots for my 10AAAA feet and if I can get them back without a lot of fuss I'd love...

This is more of a general travel question. How does one go about gauging the proximity of modern medical care to diving locations around the world as well as the rough timelines for getting to those facilities based on air ambulance services which operate there? It is a bit hard to figure...

So my 100th dive is not going to be in Indonesia as planned, it is going to be here at home. Since there are so many NC Wreck diving fans here, I thought I'd post this question here instead of on our local forum. Help me PICK:D What is your favorite wreck out of Morehead within...

take your safety equipment into the water with you when diving, especially here and other areas of the North Atlantic or other similar waters. At the very minimum, have an SMB, a light, and a whistle. I'm adding some things to this such as a small mirror, better noise beacon, larger SMB, etc...

Last weekend, a diver missed the anchor line and got pulled away from his boat in the current. From what I understand, the operator and one other boat searched for him and found him after about an hour, about the same time the CG folks showed up. The man had an SMB, which was in his DIVE BAG...

Hello all, A diver was lost today here in NC, and luckily the captain found him. Guy didn't even have his SMB with him :shakehead: But it got me thinking. I know they make GPS units/Personal EPIRBs for divers. I have heard that some boats in some locations provide them to their divers...

I recently dove with someone for the first time who had about the same number of dives as I do. He was very nervous and unsure of himself in the water. This resulted quite a few scary moments for me when he would do something impulsive without communicating with me such as a rapid ascent...

There are a whole new crop of wetsuits and I am curious if any of you who have to have talls have opinions on what is fitting best these days. I have posted a similar topic before, but due to the new suits out there, I thought it could use a refresher. Right now I am working with two...

I certainly was. My first night dive was horrid, I had new buddies who were speed demons and I lost sight of them while in strong current. Second one was just OK. This past week I was in Little Cayman and somewhat unenthusiastically told myself that I needed to try a couple more night dives...

Yesterday I was out in "sporting seas" and dove the Caribsea on the East Side of the shoals out of Morehead. Holy Cow, just what is the scientific word for what looked like a full military regiment of Sand Tigers? Vis was poor, maybe 20-30 feet, and I counted 40, BIG ones, in layers, all...

I am going on a two week trip to Indonesia. The first week will be land based diving near Bali. The second week will be a Komodo Liveaboard. I am not sure which fins will be best to take. I took my split fins to a Turks and Caicos liveaboard last year and was happy enough on most dives...

Hello, I have been reading about serious infections seen in divers. I take a medication which makes me somewhat immunosuppressed and in fact had a very serious issue last fall (sepsis) which was thought to be unrelated to diving. So i am trying to be better informed about this risk...