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Massive side issue but I have dived all over the UK and have seen creels as far apart as Scotland, Wales and Cornwall. So maybe started as a Scottish word but they are used throughout the UK as a means of crustacean fishing. I was brought up on the south west coast of England and now live in the...

This is not so as far as I am aware. Have double checked my insurance and this is not the case. Can't find it in my instructor manual either, which is a relief as I nearly **** myself when I saw this post...

A creel is a lobster pot or a net trap for similar crustacians in most parts of the UK. Boats drop creels onto the seabed and come back for them later (hopefully full by then). that's what creel fishing usually refers to.

Quite so. However the matter of liability was a theoretical side issue postulated by a number of posters here. It's merely a point of interest.

I think its is entirely relevant to the discussion (is there a duty of care for Instructors/Dive Masdters not assigned to specifically buddy with a diver) which was going on prior to my post. Of course you would have to be a monster not to intervene to help a person in trouble irrespective of...

Here is a quote directly from a legal website as regards liability of experts in UK law. Whilst it refers to clinicians as 'experts' in this example it is clear that this principle woould apply to any type of 'expert'. "A person, whether a healthcare professional or a member of the lay...

There seems to be a prefence sometimes when discussing accidents and incidents here for assuming that the fault lies with the dive guide,the skipper or the dive operation. Whilst I am sure that it is true in some cases that divers who would otherwise have completed a dive without incident have...

I had absolutely the opposite experience with BSAC. I crossed over to BSAC as I felt the training was far more comprehensive and I felt far safer in the water as a BSAC diver than I ever did as a PADI one. Thanks to my BSAC instrructors I am now a much better, safer diver.

BBC News - Wastwater missing diver search scaled back No further news yet.

Since there doesn't seem to be a more radical way of presenting the tank as available for internal inspection or to guarantee there is no 'pressurised' air inside I am assuming that following TSA rules won't be deterimental. Even if UK and Canadian rules are slightly diferent I can't imagine how...

Woo-hoo. Three cheers for Mr Perfect...

Thank you all for taking the time to post the regulatios and for your advice. I am flying to Canada so will take the TSA instructions as read.

It was always my understanding, although I have never tried to take a cylinder on a flight, that the manifold had to be removed in order to satisfy airline safety requirements. However, I am planning to take my pony abroad and on checking with the airline was told it just needed to be empty and...

I mostly dive independently with budies from my dive club, either on our club RIBs or on a skippered charter. So other than doing a budy check my usual co divers would not dream of dispensing 'advice' unless asked. However, there have been plenty of times when DMs have checked my gear when I...

Quite so Diver0001! All I have to do now is get it past the committee.

I met with my student yesterday and I asked him what he wanted to get from learning to dive. He said he wanted to be able to dive when he goes abroad on holiday. I asked him if he had any plans to dive in the UK (drysuit diving) and he said no. I asked him what part he planned to take in our...

Thanks for all the advice, I have some possible new strategies now at least. the comments about giving him a focus and similar strike a chord. I have emailed him tonight to set up a meet prior to our next lesson, which I have told him is back in the pool, to have a discussion about why he wants...

I usually get given students who experience difficulties mastering the basics or who are excessively nervous. Normally, I find, taking things at a slower pace and more repetition helps those chaps. However, I suspect that I may have met my match. My latest student is a lovely, if very quiet...

I am so very sorry for your loss. I hope that I could be so capable as you were if I were diving with such a dear friend in trouble. Or, I hope my husband had the good fortune to be diving with someone like you if he ever has a difficulty. God bless you. That said, I hope if I or my husband die...

My great joy after spending massive amounts of time giving my instruction for free ( not PADI) when I watch them like a hawk it is my blessed relief to dive with my husband whom I also keep a close eye but who. I know also has my back. Judicial Pratt.