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Pattaya is pretty popular destination known for it's drugging and robbing of tourists. Especially tourists who wear nice jewelry and flash money. The throat slitting is odd though. That usually indicates a personal grudge against the victim. My guess is a drug mule that backed out on the deal...

Go to your local community college and take a convenient store clerk course. You'll make more money than a dive instructor. :)

I dive often on the rock jetty when I want to get wet but can't go on a "real" dive in the ocean. Depth is 36 feet, maybe 40 max if you get in a hole on the bottom. I dive nitrox there because that's just what I have in the tank. I get it refilled after every dive, so as sure as I fill it...

The "standard" scuba tank as you buy it of the showroom floor isn't (usually) lubed with 02 compatible lubricant around the valve neck and usually doesn't use O2 compatible rubber O-rings on the valve. (That's part of what cleaning a tanks for O2 consists of, replacing the O-ring and removing...

Above 40% OR partial pressure filling requires 02 cleaning. My shop has no problem with me switching back and forth between nitrox and air in the same tank. They bank their 30% nitrox, so partial pressure filling doesn't come into play. "Gas mixes with more than 40% oxygen require equipment...

Thank god my shop banks their nitrox. I can switch back and forth between air and nitrox without all the hassle. (Except for the scuba police sticker they insist has to be there for nitrox) I finally had to invent me a nitrox sticker that I could slide on and off the tank like those mesh...

Well, I assumed we both understood that Adventure Diver is the Equivalent to AOW. Just as "Jr Open Water Diver" is the equivalent to "Open Water Diver". You're correct, but on a technicality. "AOW (or equivalent)" I guess I shoulda said. You don't need AOW if you have an "equivalent"...

Well, I didn't mean literally. I realize you're not going to get your tank PSI to a negative ATM by sucking on the reg. I meant breathing until there's nothing left to breathe, and I've done that. Of course it was shallow 30 feet and not at 110 feet. I've cracked a tank after "sucking a tank...

Partially from the hose and partially from your lungs. As you (should have) learned in your OW cert class, the air you breathe at 100 feet is DENSER than the air you breathe at 20 feet. Your reg supplies your air at the ambient density. The average persons lung capacity is 1.6 liters. As you...

It depends on how your dive shop teaches it. The only PADI requirement for Rescue Diver is AOW certification. A lot of shops like to make their own "requirements" so they can sell you more courses...."Yeah you need this and that and this and this here." EFR is actually day 2 of the Rescue...

Education is the key. I have been certified since 2002 and even being a diver I didn't know until last year that displaying a dive flag was actually the law in North Carolina. I thought it was a "good safety recommendation" sort of like "you MUST have a backup flashlight" or "You MUST have a...

This is the PVC stick I made. Not fancy but only cost like three bucks worth of materials. I use it if I'm going diving intending to make a video. It is more flexible to use and gets me closer than the wrist housing.

Apparently they have two websites. One for the actual product and one for the company that manufactures the product. Anyway, Tornado Tech manufactures the camera and their website is Tornado Tech It has all the accessories and contact info, etc. I see the Ignite website doesn't have the...

That's different though. You went to Duke. God went to college at Duke. ;)

You couldn't find accessories on their website? Seriously guy??? LOL. Your prescription dive mask must have 2 inch thick lenses on it. :) It has eight categories and stretches across the whole top of the page. LOL And their support phone number and email is down at the bottom of the...

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You're asking a question that nobody knows the answer to. If DAN says there's not enough research to make an educated opinion on diving while pregnant, I really doubt some diver guy on the Internet sitting in his easy chair eating Cheetos is gonna know the answer. But I'm sure some Internet...

I got the GoPro wrist housing because the Ignite came with like 7 various kinds of mounts but nothing as convenient as the GoPro wrist dive housing. Originally I made a 2 foot long "selfie stick" style holder but that was just something extra to have to carry on a dive so I just use that when I...

Will the GoPro housing work with the Ignite? Yes because it's the one I use. All the buttons are in the same location on the Ignite so the buttons on the GoPro housing work just like they should. I don't know about the lighting performance as I don't have anything to compare to. My videos...

My method would be a little different than yours. With a full breathe, I can slowly exhale while ascending to prevent a lung OE injury and CESA 20 feet easily on that one breath. I know this because I've done it from 32 feet before. If I only get 3 breathes from a SA, I'm looking at at...