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So, let's put some oil on the fire. Wow, it sounds sometimes here as dpv is very very difficult rocket science. It is in my eyes something like sidemount diving or drysuit diving. You can do yourself, you can do a course. But don't take the dpv in a cave on your first dpv dive. So, be critical...

@Damiazuk, I am over 45 and have no 'yes' on the form and I am not lying. I don't use any medicines, can run 10km (but am quite slow, but this is because of some achillestendon problems that came due to sideeffects of the ciproflaxine I had to take due to a serious dogattack a couple of years...

Here doctors make their own form and it just states: Fit to dive without limitations And then a valid thrue, valid from. Sometimes you only get it digitally, sometimes printed. The date format is never a problem in my eyes. I have had: 1 January 2023, 01-11-2024, 01-dec-2024, etc as formats...

I own since a few months also the new Avatar. The smartseals work fine, I don't have problems with them. I have already tried to replace a wristseal, just to know how it works and it can be done in 2 minutes. No manual needed. Further I have done my first cavedives with it and some photography...

In my country, diving has no laws. Everybody can go diving on their own, even everybody can start their own agency and everybody is instructor if they want. There are no rules. For diving, there are no rules and no medicals needed. Also not if you want to do a commercial course from padi, ssi...

We will take a look at the options. Arrival will be around noon in Moalboal, so the next morning we want to dive of course (only 3 days diving there, so do not want to loose any time). 1 day Pescador Island, 1 day Oslob and Sumilon we want to do and then we have a 3rd day left for maybe Pescador...

But even then, a lot of fat does not mean unfit or no muscles. Some have both. So also this is not a way to measure I think. I know people with some 'fat', BMI around 30, but can run over 10km. So they are really fit. The BMI was developped for the western white man of 1.80m. This means for...

My friend and I are looking to visit Cebu. We are sadly limited in time, so 10 nights in total on Cebu is an option. Because of the flight arrival we cannot go to Panglao or Malapascua on the same day. And we want to see the sardines in Moalboal and the Whalesharks in Oslob. We have made a...

Exactly what you write about bmi. Are 'fat' divers directly out of shape? Not everybody with a bmi of 30 is really obese. And some can run 10km or more, so are really in a good condition. And what is out of shape? If a normal diver who can use arms and legs cannot carry his own gear, then you...

No. As long as people who are really healthy and sportive fall dead during football, running, etc, a dive medical will not help. Is it your time, it is your time. A self check list with some risk factors is not bad. The list you have now already.

I have been there in 2020. We made an appointment with a divecenter in Golfo Aranci before we went there. On arrival, we went directly with our rental car from the airport to the divecenter and then us was told they were full because a group also did an inquiry and that fitted the owner better...

Looks like a photosynthetic blue/purple sponge. Did you found a lot there?

I read it here. I have met Jared and Lamar during my ccr instructor course with Tom Mount. As I had a leak in my Inspiration ccr, we repaired it at Diverite. A big loss.

Yes, I had this in 2015 when they had problems with the cable of the 2020 handset. The first cables were crap and everybody got them broken. I have asked them 4 times to replace the cable just in case, but they refused. When mine broke, I was 2 weeks left from my full trimix instructor exam for...

6-7 weeks for repair is now the time they need. A friend got the same answer for another broken part. But your unit or handset is almost new, so I would sent it back over the USA person and then it will be repaired for sure. It is just a pity you have to dive 7 weeks oc again.

For me no luxery needed. Only cheap local food is ok. I only take local food most times when I travel to exotic places. This is better and if they try to make a pizza in a taco country, the pizza will not taste well ;) Further, 6 people per guide is a lot as already mentioned. Options for...

That sounds good. So if we go again, let me know which dive center you used.

That is nice. They asked in Tulum over 150 for a 2 dive trip to Cozumel. And this was depart at 8 a.m. from Tulum, and back already around 2 p.m. This means rushing to do 2 dives. They said max 40-45 minutes per dive. So the reason not to go for us. We stayed in Tulum as we go there for the...

You cannot compare the Carribean to the Coral Triangle. The more you go west from the Coral Triangle, the less life is found. The Carribean are then the worst in case of life. But it can be still beautifull. An important question for choosing Cozumel is: do you also want to dive the cenotes...

If you do this 3 times in 1 day, the Suunto will give you really more penaltytime on the 3rd dive. But with 2 dives not. Also the next day, the first 2 dives are ok. The first one the Suunto gives you more time, the second dive, the differences are smaller, but then, Suunto is way more...