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Being a firm believer that a truly functional save-a-dive kit is BUILT rather than bought, what is in yours that you consider indispensable? I know many out there (myself included) take "be prepared" to the extreme and could fill the trunk of their car with everything they'd LIKE to have with...

Have you checked on this? I ask b/c the wife and I had to make last minute travel changes due to the GREAT NEKTON DEBACLE (don't get me started) and ended up spending a week on the CEXII (wOOt to Caribbean Explorers!) out of Grand Exuma. We kept our old US Air reservations to Ft. Lauderdale, and...

Bicycle pump? Ike aka "my arms are tired"

Uneducated question: I'm a volly firefighter and all our tanks (and every FF tank I've ever seen) is a DIN connection. I guess it's OK to fill a tank using DIN/yoke converters? Ike aka "firehouse nearby = compressor across the street"

Sea turtle films self, becomes YouTube sensation - Yahoo! News ..and so it continues. Is this just the original yahoo article, or a NEW one? AH, remember how long you stalled before you posted the video? Imagine if you'd done it right away? You'd be world famous by now. As it is, you'll be...

Notice they mentioned "bone dry" and "looking new" but didn't bother to note the OP's statement that the camera no longer worked? :rofl3: Ike aka "it's all in the spin"

Something else that comes to mind watching that video: the instructor is practicing his skills while watching the student practice theirs. Not only is he working on buoyancy, but he is doing so while his attention is on other things. This way, he is learning to control his buoyancy without...

When I think back to my OW course, I don't recall the instructor having impressive buoyancy. That being said, I don't recall him having awful buoyancy either. I don't recall ever really registering buoyancy in our pool sessions. In the open water sessions (Barbados, yeah, it was really trying...

Two recent incidents, both on a recent trip: One: tried hard (made it to the entry point) to start a dive without fins. Mask on, regulator in mouth, BC inflated, awaiting final ok from DM. DM looks me up and down and with no effort at suppressing his glee states in a very loud voice for all...

Holy Schnikeys! The youtube video has over 728,000 views already. Hang on everybody! It's going viral! Ike aka "The Police ain't got nothing on you guys with their 'message in a bottle'"

I don't recall EXACTLY how much we paid, but I'm pretty sure we actually paid more. Which means the prices have been coming down. Dangit. And sorry, but my wife is the only scuba buddy I've ever had, so we're definitely going to be diving together at all four stops! Ike aka "need more...

The wife and I are scheduled for the same itinerary in September. Same idea: four days ashore, just to get back on a smaller boat and go dive all four days! We got the balcony room, since the rate was so good. Already bought the scuba excursions for all four days ashore. All that's left to do...

Here's a website I found a few years ago. I also bought one of the books listed toward the bottom of the page, it wasn't a bad read. USVI Moving Center - The Ultimate Resource for Relocating to and Living in the Virgin Islands I admit I think about the same thing each time I go on vacation...

Good looking bag, definitely something we'll look at. Not an option for this trip, but even if you couldn't get everything in it I've been looking for a very softsided (and light!) carry-on that's built to the max allowable size. Everything else I've found it typical softside luggage that is...

I'm not a tax lawyer, but I am an American who has come to feel a little wallowed out by Uncle Sam lately. I would bet my next paycheck (or whatever part of it isn't already claimed by the government) that he's going to get his cut before any of us see a dime. Ike aka "system payer-inner"

My laptop does not have enough keys to adequately convey my jealousy! Ike aka "a goal for the next trip"

OK, here comes a long one: A couple years ago, on a similar website for another sport I frequent (again, you get three guesses and the first two don't count) an article detailed the theory (term loosely used) of "risk homeostasis". The theory goes something like this: every person has a...

OK, so good to hear we're in the norm. Yeah, I figure the dive charter probably has a plan to deal with stuff like this. I just like to be a "take care of it myself" kind of guy. I also have come to HAAAAAAAATTTTTEEEEE traveling by airline, and anything I can do to limit stress, I go...

So, it looks like the top kill was a bust. I'm slowly realizing that, in hindsight, our generation will come to look on this event as "life changing" much in the same way our world was changed by 9/11. As kindred souls to the sea, it affects us even more so, but (if we have even an ounce of...

The webcam shows the lights are still on at the Rorqual. ...working furiously night and day to prepare for a surprise comeback? :rofl3: ike aka "over it, mostly"