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And you got Vla! Reason enough to pay the Netherlands a visit! ;)

The GTÜM recommends to have a medical every three years if you are under 40, and for 40 above every year. It is a recommendation, not a law. Dive shops I know ask for one that is not older than two years if you are under the age of 40. I also heard that insurance might not pay if you don't...

Hm... I could sell you my DR SS BP and just get a new one as I'm moving to the States soon, but as I will continue diving with a SS BP in the future it wouldn't make sense to me to sell if for less than whatever a new SS BP in the states would cost me. It feels kind of wrong to charge the same...

Have to say I wasn't pleased when I did a night shore dive in Japan and came across two box jelly fish (not at the same time, but during the dive), especially when I noticed that they would turn and swim towards the light.

Did you check Technisches Tauchen Karlsruhe? If you have a car and if you are near Mannheim, it's not that far. Without traffic something like 30-40 minutes. They have some non-"H" stuff. I saw that they offer a SS BP for 79 Euro, with harness for 99, and harness plus crotch strap for 114, DR...

Apologies, English is not my first language. I just copied the word from the reply to my post, should have looked it up.

Yes, all is not equal. But not everyone lives close to Mexico and far away from Australia. Yes, sharks are not the only thing. But for example, a co-worker recently went to Hawaii, relax some at the beach and swim and snorkel. She was very afraid after she read the news about a shark attacking a...

I think the poll is flawed, not just because of the answers, but also because of the input group. I am sure there is a difference between people who are serious divers, people who dive year round or who dive for a living, and people who go on a two week dive vacation once a year. If one is...

I'd say the report/interview above is what I would trust most at this point, as that's from interviews with the divers. I am not sure if she was the dive leader though, as it was two guides and five guests. If I have to climb up a rock in choppy waters, like these divers had, I don't think...

I just read on a Japanese news page (link) that the group of six made it to the rocks, however Takahashi Shoko and Ritsuko Miyata were then taken away by waves when Takahashi Shoko tried to help the other diver climb up the rocks. Now here are a few things I have been thinking about, reading...

From reading the interview the seven were together for a while, until one left the group to try and reach a boat. I also read on one Japanese news page (Yomirui Online) that the group of six made it to the rocks and two divers got swept away by waves.

Am too tired to do corrections, but I think adding paragraphs makes it a tad easier to read. Keep in mind though, google translate from Japanese is not really that great, at least in my opinion (for example, as far as I know in Q1 it's not "drowning" but rather "entering (the) water"). /edit...

I checked by setting mine to a different percentage, and indeed it set itself back to 21%. I am not sure if it's actually better that it doesn't reset during a dive series or not. In my case, I have been diving nitrox, and a day later I went on air, but it was still on my last setting of 32%...

Could that mean that she's the diver who got separated right in the beginning of the dive? NHK Japan says that the deceased they found was 59 year old Ritsuko Miyata, meaning last one still missing is instructor Shoko Takahashi.

It says in the linked article: So, sadly no confirmation that all seven have been found.

The news-page you linked says five divers found and still searching for the remaining two.

There is a thread about this in the Accidents & Incidents section here Latest news is five have been found alive, two still missing.

According to NHK News they were found "on some rocks".

Ah yes, that's why. I have continued the dive series. I set it back to 21% for my last dive, because I was diving on air, so it was already on 21% when I ended the dive series. Maybe like my mobile phone (not smartphone)... says full battery for a week, and then within a couple of hours it...

Did they change this? Mine stays in whatever I set it before, doesn't automatically change back to anything. Maybe a new Software version? And FWIW, I have about 200 dives in about 3 years on my Suunto and indicated battery level is still at max.