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I looked into flying small airplanes for fun. There's a saying in aviation: "The three most useless things in aviation are the air in your gas tanks, the altitude above you, and the runway behind you." A similar thing could be said about scuba diving.

I dove here yesterday. Visibility not great, but not too bad. My GF got OW certified this weekend, and then we went on a dive together afterwards. On the bank there were a lot of trees cut down. GF's instructor said it used to be completely shaded. Mentioned they were putting in more campsites...

WARNING: The strobe, like all flashtube based strobes, uses a very large capacitor to store high voltage to power the strobe. THIS VOLTAGE CAN INJURE OR KILL YOU! Ensure the strobe is not powered on and has not been powered on recently, and do not touch any wires until you verify voltages with a...

Probably quite a bit. But I never said anything about abandoning existing materials. I said it hasn’t been incorporated into existing materials, specifically online based ones where minor revisions and additions are easy to do (as opposed to books). For example, the Apple iStore says the PADI...

A knife would need to be sharp to cut rope…but a sharp knife cuts really well. I really cannot say enough good things about my WorkSharp knife sharpener. I test my knives after sharpening them with it by shaving a bit of hair off my arm. It takes literally 2-3 minutes to take a super dull...

So PADI hasn’t revised the OW training in almost three years? Because it is not in their current OW training. I also downloaded their iOS app. In the list of hand signals, it doesn’t appear. Three years, no signs of it actually being incorporated. Seems more like they decided to abandon it...

ALSO, I just realized something important. Despite the "DAN Dispatch" having a date of March 18th, 2023, I noted the picture says "Courtesy PADI ©2021, Used with Permission." 2021? That's not new! And the video linked was posted in August of 2020, almost three years ago! Interesting... Why is...

Good video...but I'm not sure how this video relates to the discussion at hand. If I understood it correctly, the summary of the video was "we need to focus on not rushing divers through and making sure they are competent." How does that relate to PADI, an agency that has a reputation for...

Also, after I posted the above, I turned to my GF and said “I got involved in this discussion on a new PADI hand signal.” “What’s it for?” she asked. “I’m feeling ill.” Immediately she replied “but don’t they already have ‘not okay’?” I cracked up laughing. And that, right there, is why the...

I will learn and practice with my GF regularly the important ones (not okay, air, etc). For details, I’m going to have a dive slate. Seems like that would be way faster and easier if you need to communicate something complicated.

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Adding my name to the list of those having issues. Paid yesterday, originally my account here said I would be upgraded after verification the payment went through. This morning, looking at the account upgrade page, it no longer says that and justs invites me to upgrade. My bank shows the...

There’s this great concept I learned about in Cautionary Tales by Tim Hartford. This is the concept of “Work as Written” vs “Work as Performed.” Work as written will never completely match work as performed, but the ideal is to make it as close as possible. Often, when people try to make work...

As a PADI OW diver certified in 2016, who then dove three times in Grenada and not since, I have a couple quick thoughts: Firstly, my GF (who is doing e-learning for PADI OW) certainly did not try to commit to memory the current list of ~25 signals PADI OW course lists. I can’t see how new...

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While working at Lowe's as a cashier/customer service, I would see multiple married couples asking who was going to pay for the purchase. A fair number of these would literally fight about who was going to pay for the purchase. I just didn't understand this at all. I guess for reference I...