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Thought I would post that we, my wife and I, recently received a letter that Willis will no longer provide dive insurance once our current coverage ends. During a search online I also discovered that DiveSafe also no longer provides dive insurance as well. I assume this is a function of our...

I was diving off Sint Maarten and had just come up from my first dive when one of the guides told me that my Apollo Biofilter was leaking badly. I couldn't see it myself but did notice some leakage at the surface. Rather than take a chance, I skiped the next dive which was also the last dive...

Also, I would be happy to send you my word file. I will post an image later. I'm at work and the file and the log book are at home.

I use a day planner. I created the pages myself in Word, made them 2 sided (saves paper) and then used a punch to create the holes. It's small enough so it doesn't take up too much space. I have ruled continuation sheets if I feel like waxing elegiac about a dive and/or dive site. I keep it...

In case anyone is still paying attention to this link, I didn't do my OW cert in October as my wife wanted me to wait for her. So no diving in Aruba. We finally finished the course and OW dives in May of 2007. We then dived in Sint Maarten and in Saba in June of 2007 and recently we went...

I'm not sure where the get rid of the snorkel bit came in. I both dive and snorkel and free swim with no gear. In terms of effort and fatigue, both breathing with a snorkel or from a regulator is easier than breathing directly from the mouth and you at least have a lower likelihood of...

I try to be honest with my dive history. I am still a beginning diver with OW cert and will discuss my dives if asked. I do not go on and on about it though. I do have all my equipment and know to keep my mask on until you are fully on the boat in case you fall off the ladder. You should...

I agree with Eileentk. The behavior is extreme but it seems that something is missing. Curious as to what may have provoked such behavior. Regardless, pulling off a mask and threatening with a knife is excessive. Was the diver explicitly told to not touch the bottom during the pre-dive...

I can't speak to PADI courses as I took an SDI course. Needless to say, the discussion of Nitrogen loading in the SDI OW course discussed it in detail and discussed the effects of pressurization vice nitrogen absorption and bubble formation as one ascends, etc. So the rate of nitrogen intake...

This is a reply to the ascent rate teaching in SDI. I do not recall the level of discussion in the manual but I do know that my SDI instructor had us walk slowly across the floor to get a feel for the ascent rate limitation and also featured that in the pool and via our computers as well...

I've been trained by SDI and what I've heard and experienced is that SDI emphasizes and in fact requires diving with computers with their open water certification. They do teach tables, but it is given short shrift and the level of table competency is instructor dependent. I am happy with this...

I had a similar issue with my DC600 camera while snorkeling. It worked without any problems during my dives while scuba diving earlier. Basically, my guess was that due to the high heat generated by the sun (I left the camera in a sunlit spot) the heat baked the moisture out of whatever...

Welcome fellow Northern Virginian. My wife and I are also recently certified and did our Open water certification dives at Millbrook Lake, a quarry near Rte 15 and I-66. Our first dives outside our certification were in Sint Maarten and Saba. It was great there. We snorkeled in Cozumel this...

Thanks for the replies. I had a class and a pool dive last night. I have one more class and a few more skills to demonstrate and then off to open water. I will probably do that part in October. For Jim Ernst, I am from Northern Virginia in Fairfax City.

Greetings, I am currently taking a qualification course from Scuba Diving International Dive shop. This is for basic recreational diving. My wife and I are planning to go to Aruba next spring and dive. We've snorkeled and snuba'd in the past in Florida and Hawaii as well as the Bahamas. I...