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No idea. It was probably ~8 years ago. I just don't want to use up most of my remaining time off from work, just to find a funky room and be told "that's all there is".

Thanks!

I like Buddy Dive, but I have a really bad mold allergy, and a moldy room would knock me out of diving for the week. I've had awesome, spectacular rooms there, and also rooms that smelled like an old basement. Will Buddy Dive guarantee a particular room, or is it still just "luck of the draw"...

> The offer is in french but basically it is just the course, no exams. You need to be sure exactly what's being offered. If the price doesn't include the written and Open Water (in water) test, and a certification card, it really isn't worth anything at all.

AFAIK, once you're wet, the gas mix can't be changed.

I don't even bother with a depth gauge or watch for some dives, so I'm probably not representative. 8-) A number of the agencies have a choice between computers and tables, or have gone exclusively with computers. I don't see a big problem either way. The real problem is that new divers seem...

Not in the US. Not sure about France or Australia. Doubly not sure about Quebec, which has some sort of weird French certification thing going on. Not in the US. Dive operators and tank-fillers, so they have something to point to when you or your survivors sue them for letting you...

Curacao: "Superior Producer is a deep dive, which the cruise ship will be docked over. " It's unlikely that you would get to dive anywhere near the ship. It's a restricted area because they don't want anybody screwing with the ship and don't want the ship to turn anybody into chum. Curacao...

"Burning" tempered glass was always a crapshoot, since the glass is already pre-stressed by the tempering process. A flame could easily turn the lens into tiny glass bits. Toothpaste might or might not be safe depending on how gritty it is. I've had good luck with it, but wouldn't guarantee it...

Most of the training materials I've seen mention not running out of air and monitoring your remaining gas, but don't make a big deal out of it; they just cover enough of it to make it difficult to sue. I cover it using flowery, happy language like "Suppose you were unbelievably stupid and ran...

You're probably better at detecting it than I am, but I demo it every few weeks in the pool and can't tell it's my last breath until it's my last breath, even when I know it's coming. There's no way I'd see it coming on a normal dive. Everything is fine, then part of the last breath feels...

The only indication you can count on is that your last breath was "your last breath." A good, modern reg will breathe perfectly fine right until it stops. This might be because you breathed the tank down, which is 100% preventable by monitoring your air supply. However it might also be...

I don't have much of anything to add, except that over the past couple of years, my limit for smaller stressors in students in class and customers when "I'm the buddy" has moved down from three to two. Now it only takes two signs of impending doom for me to call the dive, while it used to take...

It might be a collector's item. I've never seen one like that. Be nice to it. It might be worth some money. Maybe the factory would like to swap you for a new Galileo?

I've been diving the same pair of Twin Jets for about 14 years now, and I'm on my second jacket BC, with absolutely no idea how I've survived this long.

If you get a good class (see Jim Lapenta's post) learn what you're taught, stay in practice, dive within your limits and don't do anything really stupid, the odds are tremendously in your favor. That said, SCUBA is not as safe as, for example, watching television. There are risks that you...

I can't see the images for some reason, but the short answer is that if they pass VIP and hydro, they're a bargain, if they don't, steel tanks can become $200 wind chimes and AL tanks can become $6 worth of scrap (IIRC). It's worth a look. flots

The results are probably valid, however the differences aren't especially large or significant and I would have no concerns about being either bent or having my dive cut short no matter which one I bought. It's decompression, not precision machining. There's more variation in human physiology...

A really crappy, really ugly hard-shell sampsonite suitcase that you buy at a garage sale, filled with custom cut foam.

The manufacturers work very hard to differentiate themselves, however in the end, almost any computer would work for no-deco recreational diving. Some "give you" a little more or a little less bottom time than others, however the lack of bent divers washing up on the beaches, seems to indicate...