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Eh you can add a few minutes that way... if you can add 15 min that way sounds like a cluster getting divers off the boat

I've only dived CRD thus far in Key Largo and they open the pool for "about an hour" and most of my dives were right at or a few minutes over 60. No way I'd use an op there that cut such shallow dives that short... that's 25% less diving.... @CajunDiva I've seen at least 4-5 different posters...

Having an AOW cert on top of an OW cert doesn't necessarily mean you have drift diving experience or any additional experience with SMB or holding a safety stop without mooring/anchor line though. And those seem like the more challenge aspects of diving WPB if you haven't experienced drift...

It seems @Wookie 's experience is insurance companies are not directly specifying certs be required by operators in order to obtain insurance. @Tracy it seems you have evidence of the contrary, where insurance underwriters are spelling out how and what certs must be checked by the operators...

From Pura Vida's policy update regarding AOW for divers deeper than 60 ft: If you have similar qualifying certifications or experience, like a Deep Diver certification, we’ll review them on a case-by-case basis. To me that seems to suggest they aren't applying the policy in an entirely binary...

Misconstruing what someone else has said definitely doesn't make something true. You have a different opinion; that's fine. I think it will be interesting to see if this is a regional and more isolated thing or if this trend becomes more wide spread; mainly because there are places where...

If you don’t mind @tursiops ill speak for myself Particularly since you’ve most likely intentionally mischaracterized what I’ve posted in this thread An AOW card means very little in regard to actual dive capability vs OW and dive ops know that too It’s all about liability mitigation as...

@tursiops Well I surely didn't suggest I'd performed a 100ft CESA in training, so your question about it sounded as if you had and it was something those with just OW training hadn't...

The training materials and tests covered the impacts of depth on gas utilization and narcosis, and a CESA from around 25' was performed. You performed a CESA from 100ft in your AOW class? I'll return the question, which agency?

A few days late, but here's my 2022 collage of diving photos: collage_2022%20by%20Skeptic14,%20on%20Flickr'][/URL]

Rate of gas usage at depth, narcosis, and performing CESA were all part of my OW training.

Not quite right; the boats/insurance companies aren't interested in actual evidence someone has had the training and experience to be ready for a dive, they are interested in mitigation of as much liability as possible as easily as possible. A fresh AOW diver with the 4 additional dives right...

I'm curious if this trend (requiring AOW for dives deeper than 60') in South FL will spread beyond that area, if it is being driven by insurance companies, perhaps, but I'm not sure if that'd work for some areas of FL. As example, I lived and dived the FL panhandle a lot right after...

Playing devils advocate here, but someone can immediately follow up their OW cert with an AOW cert, perhaps even in some aquarium like tropical location such that the second cert card means very little. I think being capable of free ascending from deep, shooting a SMB at a safety stop is...

Does anyone have any recent experience with either Sunshine shores or sand dune shores resorts on Singer Island? They're recommended by Pura Vida, look decent (sunshine shores better than sand dune) and it's a good location and the prices are good. Both have a kitchen with full fridge for...

I would like to try turtle reef, and the cayman university divers suggestion looks promising for my inevitable return to 7MB, wished I'd stumbled upon them back in 2019, from their website: Not sure how I'd like the narration part, the tranquility is part of the relaxation of diving, but that...

Hey @Alucard As the sole diver on my GC trips I have to find a buddy/guide for the shore dives. In 2019 I tried to do macabuca/turtle reef but couldn't line up either, so instead I setup a guide with Divetech at lighthouse point, and it was a pretty good dive, so I stuck with that this time as...

I don't see improved corner sharpness in my test shots though with this particular camera; that was my point, my results seem counter to a lot of what I've read aimed for this particular camera. There's easily discernable overall sharpness decrease and the corners look less sharp too although...

@tursiops Yeah, that's why I accepted what seemed to be the consensus regarding getting sharper corners by stopping down further with certain WALs and specifically the rx100. But something easy to see in test photos isn't nearly as easy to discern on a dive shooting different subjects/scenes...

I've been considering upgrading my uwl-04 to a wwl-1 to improve overall image quality with my rx100m2. I can definitely notice softness in and near the corners on some of my shots with the uwl04, even when stopping down to 6.3/7.1 which seems to be the conventional wisdom with the rx100 and...