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Hi there! Here I'm, set to travel to Manado tomorrow. I'll stay three days at TwoFish Bunaken and three days at Two Fish Lembeh during the first week, before an 11-day liveaboard with the Tidak Apa'Pa at Raja Ampat. Back in Manado, I'll close the holiday at Bangka Island with Nomad Divers...

Lovely!

Hi Ken, I think he got many well-intentioned answers, however. What would be your answer to his questions, actually?

I use 3mm gloves for hand protection.

Hey, if you're a regular of the pub, you must be a glass fish!

In the original post you asked this question: "Why deco-stop must be completed on the depth higher than depth for safety-stop ???" You got an answer to the question in my second post, namely, you can carry out a safety stop at 3 metres (if you wish to carry out one, because it's not mandatory)...

Ihtiander, For the sake of clarity, could you explain whether you exceeded the non-decompression limit for the dive in question, please? If you did, had you planned the deco dive or you exceeded the non-decompression limit by accident? Just trying to understand the picture.

That's right: it's difficult to keep neutrally buoyant at 3 metres with little gas left in the tank (or tanks). You may wish to do a buoyancy check with a nearly empty tank next time, to avoid the inconvenience in future dives. By way of aside, I find it somewhat odd that you do deco dives...

Perhaps you haven't read it carefully. At page 17 it says the safety stop is "carried out between depths of 6m / 20ft and 3m / 10ft at the end of a dive prior to surfacing". You can thus stay at 3 metres to perform the safety stop. Or not?

Hi Kharon, Thanks for the tip. I just did the recalibration. Although it has improved the performance (now I can see the reciprocal heading symbol, at least), it is still inaccurate for about 20 degrees, which is quite a lot. Tomorrow I will give it another try (in the open air), see what...

Hi there, If you are an Icon user, I would like to know whether you use the compass and what your experience has been so far. I am trying to use mine, but after setting a bearing, I cannot align the arrow with the square or triangle symbols, even if I had turn 90 or 120 degrees respectively...

Hi Ihtiander, Have you tried to read the instructions manual? It's available online.

Here it is: The best mosquito repellent...

lord1234, The answer to your overall question depends on the laws in force in the territory where the facts took place. It may attract a given answer in Florida, another in Bonaire, and another in Raja Ampat. More than that, even within one and the same 'territorial jurisdiction', the answer...

Yep, I agree.

A team of divers of the Argentinean institute of archeology has discovered eights wrecks of archaeological importance in San Jorge Gulf, Argentina. One of the wrecks is that of Potosí, a five-masted steel sailing ship built in Germany in 1895, which at the time used to be the longest sailing...

I went diving to Jeddah two years ago and permits were not required. Perhaps I was merely asked to show my certification; I don't remember. Check out the website of Desert Sea Divers; they organise boat dives twice per week.

Steel is the rule for single and back-mounted bottles here in the Netherlands, whereas alumnium is the rule for stage bottles.

In Vinkeveen Island 4, province of Utrecht, the Netherlands. It's a very big lake. The weather was pretty awful: rainy, high wind (force 7, Beaufort scale)), and somewhat cold (9 grades Celsius). The water temperature at maximum depth (12 metres) even colder (6 grades Celsius). I saw a big...

Desert Sea Divers organises two weekly boat dives, just in case you didn't know about that.