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I use alkaline batteries and replace the battery before the next dive when it indicates yellow during the last dive. That has always worked until last week. I had a battery go from no indication to yellow to red and to dead in the course of one dive (albeit a 115 minute dive). I carry a back up...

Let's see how many posts it takes before this is divertted into rants about spare air. Hopefully some useful comments come first. To fly with spare air, the cylinder needs to be separated from it's regulator, thus open. This takes the open cylinder from very cold low pressure (at altitude in...

Well run comfortable resort with good food, great diving, interesting local culture, and friendly staff. The resort and accommodations: The resort has all the amenities necessary to make guests comfortable. Rooms are spacious with continuous electricity (they have their own generator which...

The Dive Guide told us this is a Christmas Tree Worm. But it is not like any I have ever seen in that it is: on sand not coral, about 20 times larger than any christmas tree worm, has branches not double helical shaped.

I am looking for some insight from experience on Tufi in Feb-Mar. Reading other threads and elsewhere on the web I understand that Oct-Nov are the ideal time for diving and Feb-Mar is the rainy season where run off lowers visibility. What I would like to understand a bit better is does that...

I am looking into a trip to Raja Ampat this winter. We will have non-divers so live aboard is not appropriate. My requirements are simple: need unlimited snorkeling on house reef for the non divers and need well run resort and dive center for the divers. Currently looking into Papau Explorers...

Anyone been to St Lucia recently? I go in 3 weeks and wondering about water temp currently. I don't think there was much damage from the recent hurricanes but I thought I should also ask. ANyone know?

I have un-selected all 4 email notifications (threads, media, albums, & categories) in "Preferences." I have also un-checked alerts for replies and attaches to watched threads in "Alert Preferences." I saved a few times and logged out and back in. Yet I still receive alerts in email for any...

I am going to Grand Cayman Saturday. Anyone Able to report on conditions this week?

I had started a previous thread titled "Can't read some threads." With some help from Rick Murchison I discovered that the problem is more specific so starting a new thread. The problem is that I can't read some threads in Hybrid mode (or threaded mode) but can read them in linear mode. Some...

Anyone having trouble reading some threads recently? I am getting an error: Server Error 500 when I try to reach some threads. Just to be sure I was not nuts I tried a couple that I posted and some worked and some didn't. I tried a different browser in case some recent changes made my browser...

My son posted this youtube video of our recent trip to St Martin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Ue9rUekTI Gives a decent flavor for the island overall and for the diving there.