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I am PADI certified and would not recommend PADI unless you know the instructor has significant diving experience and wants to teach because of love of the sport. The same goes for Naui or SSI or anyone else. I took a PADI course through a dive club in 1984. It was fun and games in the pool...

My buddy and I have been diving for over 20 years and have done over 100 different trips all over the world. We tip based on service. We are likely to give a hard working Thai, Filipino or Indonesian a bigger tip than we'd give an American on a Liveaboard. Service in Asia is much better than...

For many years, Raja Ampat has been on our Bucket List. We had been watching City Seahorse's trips and saw there was space available for a 2 week trip on SMY Ondina leaving mid October and offered at a significant discount from the full price. And the timing was right to get away from the...

We have been going to the Colorado Dive Show since Brad started it 2 years ago. We were very happy to see a Dive Show in Denver again. However it was not as good as the one the Colorado Dive Shops discontinued about a decade ago. The 2010 show was at a hotel at the airport. It was OK and we...

Every time you go to a dive resort, you are asked "How much weight do you need?" Usually divers reply with the amount of weight they used on their last trip, if the remember. Otherwise it is a "duh?" conversation. If you remember your original open water diver training, the amount of weight...