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In red sea diving safari you can do nightdives on their housereef. I know they also do a nightdive on Lahmy in the south, but then the lights of the boat are off. So shore dives are maybe no problem, but boatdives are? I don't know, I haven't been to dahab. The problem I have is that if you...

I only know red sea diving safari as option for solodivers. But there the unlimited diving is a little bit a scam if you want to dive solo as you are not allowed to do nightdives. So you will miss at least 1 dive a day if you dive solo and don't get any discount. Very strange in my eyes. So if...

Depends on agency. Most will say air or nitrox. But with nitrox some agencies say 1.4 as max PO2, others say 1.5. And this can make a difference in best mix for a nitrox. And if you want to hold the END at 30m, you have to add some helium. But for me personally it is a gas without helium. At...

With my cmas 3* cert I can go to 60m on air. That is within the limits of my cert. Newer 3* certs have shallower limits. But they cannot change my limit, even not if it is not written on the cert because it was done in a time of the 60m limit. With the heliumprices nowadays you see that deep...

As said, you can remove the lens, but this is not very handy. And it can damage more quickly then attached on the housing and then jump in. Also it was not mentioned anywere about the unsharp shots above water, I did not find this in reviews when I bought it. So I took videos with the lens on...

As said, it is only at surface. I did not do anything wrong. Maybe the AOI mount is better than the backscatter, I only have 1. But here is what happens if you use the gopro in the housing with the mount attached above water. If I make pictures with the gopro above water I use the biggest size...

No, for sure not. I take the pictures in a square size and that means that you see the mount. This is for sure the case if you take pictures above water. (I took it with the mount on a canyoningtour, as I did not need to remove then the stick where it was attached on). And it is also for sure...

I have the Backscatter wide angle lens. It is heavy. But a very important thing you can not find online (at least it was not written when I bought it), is that you have to remove the lens from the camera if you want to do filming above water. It makes videos from above water completely unsharp...

And it seems that if you are a DM or instructor and work in divingbusiness on a 6 day working day that the biggest chance of getting bent is after your day off. So then it is again the same as the first day. I always do on holiday 4 dives a day. Of course there is some personal difference, but...

I am from Europe and find it important to know how many dives are done during a trip. This is because I want to calculate if the price is fair or not. I don't mind if there is no guide for me, I am like most European divers used to dive without a guide. All divers have a cert that allows you to...

And then you only get maximum of 18 dives. Not more. I had such a discussion 2 years ago for South Africa. They had a programm with unlimited diving. So 2 dives in the morning and then, weather depending 2 in the afternoon. I asked if they then really offer 4 dives a day, even if I am the only...

I don't think it is only the safety of the boats. It is also that Egypt is not far from Israel with their problems. I know from people who are afraid to go to Egypt now. And just 5 minutes ago, a planned trip from our diveclub has been cancelled due to what happened with Iran today. A problem I...

Do they give you 4 full tanks so you don't need to get back after the first dive and the second dive etc? I do 4 dives a day on Bonaire and don't want to spent time waiting for fills or driving back and then go again.

Your screenshot seems to be broken atdotde, but that distribution of time is for some divers under water already difficult. But as I said before, don't panic if you forgot it at 1 depth, add it to the next shallower depth and probably you will be fine too. I had 1 time that I used 1...

Ratio deco was used by at least 1 agency less than 15 years ago. You had to do 'deco by head/on the fly'. Oh yes, ratio deco was a great tool. But not how it was used then. I still use ratio deco, but then if I dive with someone else that made a diveplan. If that person tells me the bottomtime...

I will add a 9th :D But what I want to say is that on every level there are courses invented that are not required. And you don't know where a diver ends or want to go. I already knew during my open water course that technical diving would be my thing. And when I asked the same question about...

training are things that can also be done without instructor. It is excersizing. I have learned myself drysuit diving, it is no rocketscience. First dive to 17.5m as it felt ok. Next dive was a night dive. It is some physics and feeling or talent of the diver. But if you are unsure, yes, please...

I never took a course that did not bring me deeper or further. This means that AOW is a good choice to not have discussions if you go to 30m depth, you can have a nightdive in it and rest is optional. Then maybe deepdiver to 40m. And nitrox. AOW and nitrox are the first things I would do...

No, it is AOW OR proof of 40 logged deep dives. As you know that every open water diver can and is allowed to dive deeper than 18 or 20m, this means that the open water diver must have done at least 40 dives to 18.1m and have written this in their liebooks. Or you must have an aow cert. And with...

So after 9 dives you can have your advanced cert and then take a camera. It is better than nothing, but it would have been better at least 500 dives before taking a camera. That instructors are not allowed to take a camera is a little bit strange. In the open water course I can understand, but...