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How's the area after the quakes? Hope no one got hurt.

How many people dive with signaling devices? Lights during night-dives are a given. What do you dive with that could be used if you got swept away by current or if the boat left?

This weekend, I was diving with a group of people I had never gone diving with before. One evening, I'm talking to this guy, an avowed warm-water weeny, and he's saying how much he hates throwing money away on dive gear. Turns out he's referring to a relatively new BC he bought. A local was...

Just read the story about the explosion at Glorietta 2.

Yep, I'll be leaving soon. I expect that the last time I'll be able to dive will be late May and I'll be out of here right before the class in PG. Which is a shame because if I was staying longer I would have signed up for it again but I need to leave here in time to get stuff done in the US and...

I understand the housing isn't out yet. I'm looking at this camera and while I know no one here has tested it underwater yet, I was wondering what owners thought of its possible use underwater. For instance, do you believe the long RAW storage times will cause you not to use that mode very...

I spent the weekend diving with Boardwalk Divers and stayed at the Boardwalk Inn. The hotel (Ph: 047-252-2893): Located in the freeport economic zone very close to the beach. Cross the road and walk past a playground and you're at the beach. The rooms have two twin beds but have enough room for...

In trying to figure out which strobe would best meet my needs, I've discovered guide numbers and wanted to make sure I understood their use properly. GNs seem to be the best exposure given in appeture times distance at ISO 100. Rated in air, I assume that if underwater numbers are given that...

At the moment, I have a Canon a620 with the WP-DC90 housing. I have been using the internal flash for macro and no-flash for pretty much everything else. I'm still fairly new to taking good pictures and feel that I have yet to outgrow the ability of my current camera. While I will probably move...

I was thinking of getting a singles wing for someone who prefers a bit of color in her diving. Does anyone have a suggestion, OTHER than Dive Rite?

Has achieved Super Typhoon status and the current track goes right over the capital. This thing is big enough to screw up viz (and cause a lot of damage) from Subic to PG and further. Fri. is a holiday but diving will be difficult that day.

It appears that beginning next summer I'll be spending a significant amount of time in Cairo and while I've been doing a lot of research here and elsewhere, there are some questions I just haven't been able to find answers to. What's the best way to get from the big city to the dive spots...

I was recently sent to Majuro for work so I brought my gear. Bako divers wasn't an option as the owner was in Hawaii while I was there. Before I knew this, I sent him an email which he didn't respond to after returning (I saw him my last day) and there was no answering machine to indicate he...

...feel like they needed to stay around and help out one of the DMs while on a dive? I was recently diving with an outfit I had never dove with before. One of the dives was with a fairly large group so there was the primary DM who was doing a good job of herding people and seemed to be a...

I'm being sent to Majuro for two weeks on short notice and while I've looked through the few posts that mentioned Majuro, I found little concrete information. I will be working during the week, can't do a liveaboard. I'll have one three-day weekend and one two-day weekend. I'll also have early...

The weekend looks good for the northern PI, not counting any potential damage, but diving doesn't look advisable tomorrow in Puerto Galera or Friday in Subic.

I wanted to do a bit of DIY but when I went to the US, I forgot to bring the light head with me. Can anyone give me the outside diameter of the goodman light head and how far back it goes before beginning to taper?

Be warned that batteries can be confiscated at the airport. TSA rules apply in the US but other countries can and will make up their own rules and enforcement. I just left the Philippines for the US and the Philippine National Police attempted to confiscate the AAA batteries for my MP3 player...

Sorry if this has been mentioned but the excessive page loading times I have experienced over the last few days make searching almost impossible. The page begins to load, the title appears at the top of the browser and the SB banner at the top shows up. I then wait quite a while (timed at 6...