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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...

First of all, I am a technical diver and instructor, so my opinion or vision about things changed since I started diving. Sometimes something happens and you start to think about how it is told or written and maybe it can or has to be improved. I especially posted this topic in the basic scuba...

Since this summer I teached a diver open water and now we have done about 25 dives together and are doing the aow course. It is a diver that had as a child a lot of ear infections and now has an ear that needs an hearing aid. Before starting to dive he visited a doctor and the doctor said all...

Has anyone been to Bali in december? It is rainseason, and most people say there is nothing wrong with going to Bali then. But some others say you cannot dive at all. The idea is to dive around Tulamben, shoredives. That there will be rain is known, but is this a problem (together with wind?)?

First, I don't read here about that the victem did a zero to hero. The person was trained, only had an accident and had maybe not a lot of experience in ccr cave diving. It sounds more to me as just wrong time, wrong place. There happen also car accidents with new drivers, and with more...

Probably I will have 2 or 3 diving days in Cuba in october. We prefer to do some cave diving and diving in the bay of pigs. Does anyone have good divecenters that are trustable in the bay of Pigs or in Varadero?

I read in older threats (2016/2017) that you can just rent tanks in Iceland and go diving on your own. Is this information still actual? And where do you rent tanks and weights without guide or transport?

What is the best place to stay with a housereef and unlimited solodiving possible? Also the option to have boatdives or other shore dives. I prefer the option of solodiving as I am solodive instructor myself and don't want to be limited in divetime when taking pictures. It is for when we can...

Last week I was in Sardinia to do some trimixedives and a cave dive. Here are some pictures of the Bel Torrente cave. The water was in the salt part 25 degrees C and in the fresh water part only 15. The average depth of our 150 minute dive was 3.9m, with a maximum depth of 12m. So extremely...

One of my older YS-02 strobes died. It did not completely die, but sometimes won't reload the condensator. So I cannot trust it anymore. It can work a complete dive, or it will refuse working the complete dive. Or it drains the battery fast. I only use the strobe as a slave strobe. This means...

Last week I visited France again, and we got a permit for a small cave. For everybody who wants to dive this cave: only with a permit allowed. It is a small cave, just 180m long, 17m deep. Watertemperature is 11degrees C, and it is most times clear, really clear. Even now it had some slight...

This time we visited another old slate mine in Germany. Grube Felicitas. This mine is completely different from the Christine. The depth is around 32m. The mainentrance is an 130m long tunnel that goes down from surface to 32m. Then you get a T. If you go to the right side, you see smaller...

Last weekend I had the chance to dive again in a slate mine in Germany. My buddy dove OC, so I decided also to go OC. The depth of the first level is 24-25m. The second level is max 50m. We decided to do only the first level. It is also a 'mountaindive' as the mine is located at around 600m...

Saturday I had the chance to dive again in the 'Möllerbunker' in Germany. This is a parc where you can visit an old iron blast furnace. The flooded area are the ore bunkers. Everything is left in these bunkers. The depth is maximum of 6.3m. You need a special permit to dive here.

Is there a list, based on part of the world (asia, europe, africa, etc) with solodive friendly divecenters? I have now booked my first trip to Indonesia and it was hard to find a place where you can dive solo. After my trip I will share my experiences there.

Sunday I was diving in an old black marble mine in Belgium. The mine is not really big. Depth was now 30m, but depends on the ground water level. The viz in the open water part is almost zero, but when you swim in the overhead part, at around 18-20m depth, the viz clears up. You can swim the...

We are in an orientation phase for 2 weeks diving in the Philippines. We prefer for 1 week a housereef with unlimited diving, and some options for boatdiving. The other week can be wreckdiving only for example. But stay 2 weeks at 1 place is also an option. What is important: -Price. Not looking...

Last year I got a message from a disabled diver in a wheelchair: I want to do some cavediving. Is that possible? I know from a few disabled cavedivers in the world. But there is not a lot of information found. And every diver is different. Do you want just a guided dive in a cave/cavern I said...

Just before the floods in France (yesterday nothing was diveable, Landenouse could, but only 3 m viz) we dove the Cabouy (Reasseau de l'ouysse), this is a really big cave, it is divable from aprox may, but then only 3-5m viz. After end of september it shows its best viz, till the rain comes...

I am looking for next year, october-november for 2 weeks diving in the Philippines. I already found some divecenters offering 10 dives for 270 dollar, but the idea is to go 2 weeks and then 1 week 1 island and another week another island. I know some divecenters offer unlimited housereefdiving...