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  1. xyrandomyx

    Dry Gloves & Cameras

    I've recently bought my first drysuit. All good except that the wrist seals leak quite a bit. I bought the suit secondhand, but the seals were replaced, so I'm fairly sure there's nothing wrong with the seals. They seem to be the right size: tight, a bit uncomfortably so topside, but they feel...
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    Dive Boats: What Are 'Yours' Like?

    What sort/ size of dive boats do you have in your area? What's a typical price for a spot on the boat? How far is the average trip out to a dive site? I basically started this thread to avoid going off-topic in this one...
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    iSpot

    From the website's description (iSpot | southern Africa - your place to share nature) Your gateway to sharing and identifying the biodiversity around us. Ultimately we hope that this site will become the premier Citizen Science portal for southern Africa, providing photographic...
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    Cape Town Dive Festival 2014

    The Cape Town Dive Festival is going to be held again this year on Friday the 2nd and Saturday the 3rd of May at Seaforth Beach. It's R100 to register and between R100 and R175 per dive if you register/ book before the 1st of April. All the details can be found here: Festival Info | Cape Town...
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    Top 5 Favourite Dive Sites in South Africa

    What are your top five favourite dive sites in South Africa? There's obviously no right answer and all the choices make it hard, but I thought it might be a fun thread anyway. Mine, in no particular order and somewhat biased towards Cape Town shore diving, are: Castle Rocks (South), south of...
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    Dive Goals for 2013

    It's very nearly the end of 2013 (it might even be over already in some time zones?). What were your diving goals, if any, for 2013? Did you achieve them? Have you made any goals for 2014 yet? I was aiming to log 50 dives this year (a very modest number for many on this forum). I've fallen just...
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    Sodwana Bay

    I don't know if any of the other South Africans will be online at this time of year, but I'll give this a shot anyway. I'm off to Sodwana Bay next Friday for six nights and five days of diving. Does anyone who's dived there have any tips, recommendations, advice for me? Anything at all, really...
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    How Often Do You Abort Dives?

    How often do you abort a dive? I'm asking purely out of curiosity after going through my own logbook. There can't be a 'right' number. I was going to ask 'how many dives have you aborted?', but realised those of you with hundreds or thousands of dives logged probably couldn't count. You might be...
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    Surge and Photography

    A question inspired by this thread -- http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/marine-life-ecosystems/467232-nudibranch-lovers.html -- which has many excellent macro shots: how do you deal with surge when trying to take photographs? Macro shots in particular, where even a bit of movement is enough to...
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    Tides and Dive Planning/ Execution

    Can anyone recommend any articles related to dive planning/ execution in areas where tides are an important factor? As well as any explaining why tides affect certain areas more than others? Google's not turning up anything decent, just little snippets of info. I'm not planning any dives in...
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    This is Why I Need a Drysuit

    A picture that appeared in Blue Flash's newsletter from a 'new' reef in the Duiker Point area near Hout Bay in Cape Town: http://is.ss20.mailgm.com//za_members/56658/ftp/AG%20MMCaveWall%20FW.jpg The visibility was apparently around 15 metres, but I'm guessing the water temperature was 10C at...
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    Where Are You Diving This Weekend?

    It's getting to summer in Cape Town. The south-easter's picking up and the swell is coming from a southerly direction. That means diving on the Atlantic side of the Peninsula. Which, for me, means no diving until I have a drysuit. I just can't handle that cold in a wetsuit. It shouldn't be too...
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    Cape Town around October

    I started this thread to answer PsyWulf's question from over here: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/south-african-divers/467481-who-where.html#post6915132 It was slightly off the topic and it seemed it'd be neater to put it somewhere else, especially if others want to chip in. OK, so first...
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    South Africa, Cape Town: Scubapro Day - 26 October 2013

    See here for more detatils: SCUBAPRO Day ? Cape Town F.B.Y.C | Scubapro Southern Africa I'm not sure who all the 'participating charters and dealers' are at this stage, but I'd guess it'll be the usual suspects. I read about the event in Down South's newsletter. It's R50 to register, R120 for a...
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    South Africa, Cape Town: Southern Rights at Long Beach & Great White at Clan Stuart

    I originally posted this in the Cape Town Divers Group, so they're a bit old now, but I think they're worth a repost. They were both shot the weekend before last. The first is a pair of Southern Right Whales at Long Beach, Simon's Town, Cape Town: GoPro Scuba - Diving with Southern Right...
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    Regional Sub-Forum for South Africa + Cape Town Divers Group

    The Groups feature has passed on, taking our Cape Town Divers group along with it. Apparently a new regional sub-forum can be created if there are at least twelve interested members. There were only a handful of us in the Cape Town Divers group, so not enough to warrant a Cape Town forum. But...
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    Groups

    Has the 'Groups' feature disappeared? Or is it just the groups that I belonged to that are gone?
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    Old But Funny Post

    OK, so a bunch of you have probably read this (more than once), but for the benefit of newer members who may miss this in the archives: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/3443054-post47.html I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe (good thing I wasn't diving, might've started to panic).
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    External Flash + Shutter Speed

    I originally posted my question here: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/sealife/443256-digital-pro-flash-shutter-speed.html No replies after a few days and it's possible that it's not specific to Sealife, so I figured I'd post in the main underwater photography section. I'm a beginner...
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    Digital Pro Flash + Shutter Speed

    I have a DC 1400 with the Digital Pro Flash. I've been having trouble with overexposed/ washed out images, so I decided to experiment a little with the flash and exposure settings on dry land. I turned the external flash's brightness setting down as far as it would go. I set the Scene Mode to...
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