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I'm going to be flying in to RTB next month, arriving just a little before 1 pm. The daily ferry to Utila leaves from the Coxen Hole area at 2 pm and I'm assured this is only about 5 minutes by cab from the airport. So I have two questions: 1) Is it realistic to think I could make the ferry at 2...

I did my DSR class in rental gear because at the time I only had my BPW and I was told that I should get a rental from the shop that had buckles to get me out of it, as opposed to cutting my harness. When I did my DM class a couple of years later, both my instructor and I somehow managed to work...

If you want to dive with DP on their boats or the house reef, you have to do paperwork. Some of the questions are your certification number, highest level of certification, dive count, number of drift dives, number of ocean dives, date of last dive, etc. An OWD student's answers to those...

One of the advantages to working with the biggest shop in the US. It's all about the insurance agreement. When you're doing open water training dives, they definitely know. We have to have a special arrangement with Dive Paradise when we fill out the paperwork because one of the things they...

My shop sends a group to HC every month to do training dives. This is the third time I'm doing it personally.

I've stayed at both and will be at HC again in a couple of weeks. FA is a much, much nicer resort, but it is a ways from town. You'll have to take a taxi (and you already know that the hotel will pay for it) to and from the marina, which is a bit of a pain. The food is much better, but there are...

I found the owner and got it back to him today!

I just found a GoPro in the water above Cedral Wall, almost right in front of Alberto's. Could it be yours? I think I know the owner's first name and what he did yesterday. It looks like it was lost this morning. I'd love to get it back to the owner before we both leave Cozumel.

I'm an instructor and Trip Leader with Diventures in Iowa and I'm going to be co-leading a trip to Cozumel in August with one of our instructors from Atlanta! We are putting together a large group of travelers from all of our locations across the country, aiming for a complete takeover of the...

Don't worry, the original subject became irrelevant by Saturday afternoon. And yes, they no longer do daylight savings time in Cozumel. They align with central time during the summer and eastern time during the winter. We lost out on our bonus day of diving on Friday because of the port...

For a second I thought I might be in that picture. That was the most crowded I had ever seen CZM and the check-in lines were an absolute mess. They had two agents available to work everyone through. Our flight to CZM was much worse, though. On the 23rd, we were supposed to flight out of CID...

It used to be that when you joined a certain forum you would get a label like "Divemaster" or "Instructor, scuba" appended under your name. I seem to no longer be a "scuba instructor" and have lost access to the I2I forum.

Just Northwest of Fayetteville is Beaver Lake. If you haven't been there, you should check it out, too, now that you're back into diving. I did my Instructor Evaluation dives there in July because the visibility in Table Rock was poor that week and it is one of the best inland lakes I've had the...

I subscribed last year when I bought my Hero 9 and used it to get a pretty healthy discount on the camera, an extra battery, dual battery charger, and the underwater housing so I can take the camera diving. Just cancelled the subscription about a month ago (when they kindly notified me that it...

If your whole "class" totaled 4 hours, 3 of that being in the pool, there is no way anybody learned enough to be in open water and you can and should absolutely blame your "failure to equalize on the instructors or the short time." I train with an SSI shop, not PADI, but I can't imagine that...

I think I heard that story. Didn't that happen during a Discover Tech Diving?

Yeah, what this guy said. One hundred times over. I'm a scientist. This article was drivel. No data, no citations, nothing to back up that "70% had an 'awful' experience" claim - "Here's a real life story from an urban dive store [that goes to another school across town - you've never been...

Hello, @Cozluver and welcome to ScubaBoard from another Iowa diver. What part of Iowa are you in? Edit: Actually, I think I know who you are! New diver who just did checkouts in an Iowa quarry and recently came back from Cozumel. You were in my class in July, weren't you? :)

That notch on the buckle would make for a pretty ineffective and inconvenient bottle opener. The best I've been able to find, supposedly quoted from a Scubapro representative, is that the notch is a legacy design from the days before modern BCs when divers wore horse collars and strapped the...

I'm going to be there in late October, but my buddy said they told him it would be closed at least through the end of the year.