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This is rather cool: BBC News - First oxygen-free animals found

Hi! I have an old 20w Hid that is still working fine despite some "ageing"(the reflector is sorta hard to "lock" and the handle is gone) but now the battery is definetely on its last lap and when I went to your website I couldnt see batteries for sale anywhere... My had a rated burn-time of...

For almost a year now I´ve been trying to get good pics of local nudibranchs (without success :( ). I tend to manage a few such shots on tropical vacations but not here at home. I tend to get a white "blur" instead of the beautifully spined thing I see during the dive :shakehead. They are...

There´s another thread on the board that got me thinking... I´m doing my DM right now (PADI if it matters). There are some standards that I have routinely violated in the past. Before I started my training I decided that I would follow the standards of my agency as closely as I am able...

Hey guys! Me and my regular buddy (håkan) have finally gotten around to finalizing our plans for our phillipine divefest. We´ll be staying with Johan at subicdivers 19/11-2/12, hoping to dive as many wrecks as we can during our stay. I don´t post much here but I lurk a bit, if any of you...

Me and my buddy are planning to fly to the land of the PPD November 18th and get kicked out by 2nd of December, which is about 2 weeks worth of diving...We are wreckdivers and are looking to do some technical dives as well... So I´ve read about onfloats experience with Johans (which is the op...

Hello all, I thought I should get some local (and maybe non-local) advice on where to go for a diving holiday... Me and my buddy are planning on two weeks worth of diving during the month of October. We´re mostly into wrecks but pretty fishes are ok too ;) As we are tmx and techwreck...

2-2 but we deserved to win...

I´m trying to put together a 2week trip to Florida with arrival sometime in the middle of the month... Last year when I went around that time I was fortunate enough to pick a week between to different hurricanes so planning a 2week trip this year I don´t feel like pushing my luck... Is...

I just want to vent a bit about an experience I had while on a "6-pack" in Florida last week... It was your basic 2 tank reef dive off a boat. At the divesite I was buddied up with a guy by the captain. The captain also explained that if one in a buddy pair decides to go up its ok for the...

Hello locals! I´ll be arriving in Florida wednesday next week (staying for a week). (JIPPIEEEE!! :dazzler1: ) Anyways do any of you have any suggestions for for good (read cheap) hotels in Pompano beach? -I´ve found a room for room for 41$/night @ Pompano Beach-Days Inn so anything with...

The question: I´ve been reading up on DIR on this forum and elsewhere and every once in a while someone mentions touch-signaling, usually in class reports... Touch signals seem like a very good idea. I´d like to add the touch signal language to my diving-communication tool-box. Does anyone...

Basically because of pollution 5800 sqmiles of water in the Gulf of Mexico is devoid of life...how scary is that?! http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&e=1&u=/nm/environment_deadzone_dc

Hi, Just thought i´d post a link to some video of proffesional divers cleaning oil off a wreck... First video on there is just a short clip of the tape (which is the best one, IMO) The other is a clip of the actual cleanup work The site´s in danish so just click on the links to the videos if...

Hi all! I´m looking to buy a doubles set up... My question is about tank sizes... During my training I dived 9 liter doubles @200Bar/64cft...(on dives to 160 feet/ 50+ meters) I thought I´d get 12 liters/80cft but talked to an instructor/tech diver this weekend who suggested I get at least...

Ok, so I´ve just finished a "recreational trimix course". During the course I did dives with my computer in both Nitrox and Gauge mode (a Suunto Vytec). I did have a slate with planned stops and so on (not diving according to the computer). My question is: Do any of you use your...

Hi all, I´ll be travelling from Sweden to Florida for some "serious" diving. My question is, what kind of exposure protection do you need? Also, is there a thermocline that I might need to take into consideration? I´ll be doing a wreckcourse and a rec trimix course if that helps you get...

Hi all! I´m planning a one week trip in Florida, arriving June 20th. During the week I´d like to take the IANTD wreck diving course as well as get some dives in (I think boat dives are the best option) during the rest of the days I plan on staying in Miami. Any suggestions for where I...

This got pretty long but I feel it needs to be in order to give enough information for a productive response. I´ll try to make this as unprovoking as possible but I´d just like to stress that this is not a troll... Just some info: I´m a PADI diver (gasp!) who´s gone no further then AOW...

Maybe this should be in the med-forum but I posted here anyway... Aerobic exercise before diving reduce venous gas bubbles formation in human, say a group of researchers in this article: http://jp.physoc.org/cgi/content/abstract/jphysiol.2003.059360v1 Their sample is very small (12) but...