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  1. Felipe Telles

    Bent! o_O

    I really don't see fever as a symptom of DSC, and the feeling of the eyes burning doesn't check much with DCS also. Physical stress and getting in contact with a lot of people is the way to get a viral infection. But anyway, it's hard to tell something over the internet. Being conservative as...
  2. Felipe Telles

    Bent! o_O

    That doesn't sound to me as a DCS at all... Sounds much more like a viral infection. Redness and swelling in the ears could be explained by the viral infection also. Anyway, better safe than sorry. Hope you are ok!
  3. Felipe Telles

    Question: Any opinions on the Apeks or the SiTech automatic drysuit exhaust valves

    My fiancee has sitech valves. She doesn't complain about it. I have a whites fusion with Apeks valve. It works great for me. Never leaked for me.
  4. Felipe Telles

    Lets tell the less experienced what our OWC was like..... ( if you remember)

    I described mine in this thread: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/new-divers-those-considering-diving/395041-difference-between-good-instruction-bad-instruction.html
  5. Felipe Telles

    Dry Suits and Blisters

    Are you getting wet in this areas after diving? Wetness and friction are the most commom cause of blisters.
  6. Felipe Telles

    Best Path toward Instructor?

    The best path would be the slowest. Dive a LOT. Dive in various locations with different people. Also be open minded to various equipment setups, and at least try some. The fast way, well, it`s just faster.........
  7. Felipe Telles

    My Newbie Equipment List of stuff to get after I get certified.

    My fiancee used a neoprene suit in a 80 degree water. It was unintentional, our travel guide kept telling us that the best choice for diving in malpelo was in a drysuit. She actually loved to dive dry, it wasn't an issue. But she fells cold very easily, not really the average person. Back on...
  8. Felipe Telles

    Good dive spots for people with pretty bad motion sickness?

    There are also those scopolamine patches. Those worked great for me and my girl who gets seasick most of the time in a boat.
  9. Felipe Telles

    Good dive spots for people with pretty bad motion sickness?

    Bonaire is a great place for begginers and offers great shore diving.
  10. Felipe Telles

    Difference between a good instruction and a bad instruction

    DivemasterDennis, It's hard to see that some dive shops are only after money. It's very exausting even for its employees. Some of the instructors of the dive shop I got certified got tired of this way of always looking for the costumer's wallet and they ended up teaching for another dive shop...
  11. Felipe Telles

    Difference between a good instruction and a bad instruction

    She was very sad by the end of the day. She was expecting to be diving like an experienced diver whitin a few minutes in the water. Seeing how hard it is will allow her to pursue more and more training and diving time, even if it is in a deep pool. It really pays of in the end, when you diving...
  12. Felipe Telles

    Difference between a good instruction and a bad instruction

    Yestarday we went to the deep pool. Weight check again, and then practice descending on a line. She had some problems to descend, she was feeling a little anxious and wasn't able to fully deflate her BC, she was a little horizontal while trying to do it. This was something that happened to...
  13. Felipe Telles

    Difference between a good instruction and a bad instruction

    Hey everyone, This text is about what I'm experiencing this week and my history as a diver. This week my mother-in-law is geeting certified. I'm following her classes everyday for at least a little time, both inside the pool or in the classroom, and I can see how bad my instruction was. I...
  14. Felipe Telles

    What do you or your lady friends use as BCD and regulators please?

    My fiancee uses a halcyon aluminum backplate with a hollis wing. We own the same regulator, a Mares Abyss. It's a metal reg, and tough she was problems with her jaw getting sore because of sleping issues, the regulator was never a problem, the only thing we adjusted was the mouthpiece which we...
  15. Felipe Telles

    Lost weight belt at 100 feet

    I was using 16 lbs of weight in that dive if I remember correctly. I don't like integrated weight bc's that much. I had an experience of someone losing it at the surface because it wasn't very well placed. My plan is to buy one of those DUI weight systems. They seen to be very comfortable and...
  16. Felipe Telles

    Lost weight belt at 100 feet

    No, I don't have all my weight in my weight belt. I usually use weight pockets in my cam bands and I also use a stell back plate. This time I was not using the pockets, but now that you're saying I will start to use them back again. I hadn't put a lot of air in my suit when the whole thing...
  17. Felipe Telles

    Lost weight belt at 100 feet

    Hi everyone, This happened to me on my last dive trip, on Malpelo in the beging of this month. Malpelo is known for its heavy currents, making it a very challenging site to anyone not used to currents. We were on a liveaboard, and before the trip our instructor told us that was suposed to be...
  18. Felipe Telles

    Where and with who to get intro to cave+ cavern instruction?

    Thanks a lot everyone for the replies. I am contacting the instructor you guys indicated. You were very helpful! :D
  19. Felipe Telles

    Yum Yum Yellow Fins?

    My DM in the last liveaboard I dived used yellow. He was the easiest person to identify from the group. We're at Malpelo, can't say that there isn't many sharks there. By the way, have you seen a yellow seal? :eyebrow:
  20. Felipe Telles

    Where and with who to get intro to cave+ cavern instruction?

    Hey all, Me and my fiancee just got back from a amazing liveaboard trip to Malpelo - Colombia and we're willing to take our next step on diving. We've been certified for about 1 year and we have about 75 dives each, most of them in sites where the current was strong and the vis was limited...
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