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Pompano Beach and Lauderdale by the Sea are neat. Could get in a mix of shore and boat dives. Both are newbie friendly. If you do Florida, I’d recommend picking a couple spots to hit that are in close proximity to minimize the time wasted on the road and save some money. I.e. Base out of...

I’m happy to be here and proud to serve.:cheers:

It’s pretty miserable (my two cents) to be sick and stuck on a boat with a pitching deck. My one trip that I forgot Dramamine, I got VERY nauseous on the way out to the dive site. One of the DM’s saw me not looking well and said “I can tell you’re sick, but I’m telling you…you’ll feel better...

I’ve heard that theirs are big guy friendly, but folks new to the wetsuit market should note that the size from one brand to the next doesn’t mean much. There‘s no standard from on brand to the next. I.e. 3X Henderson = 3X Akona. Ensure that you check out the chest size in particular to make...

Short of them conducting pre-departure bag and cavity searches, there’s no way for them to account for every piece of electronic gear and folks rationalization hamsters.

It seems like people are confusing dive operators that “find” their dive locations based upon public information acquired via tax dollars (i.e. USCG, NOAA, etc.) vs. those that pick out their dive locations based upon their own equipment and/or trial and error: - I dove with one operator that...

I had a similar experience diving a shallow river with high current while solo. The dive operator politely said something along the lines of “you’re probably not going to want to take that with you” (pony bottle). After finishing dive one (“muck” diving on the bottom for teeth)…had the pony...

Looking at teeth/fossil dives? I’ve read some pretty strongly worded bits about GPS usage for those wanting to dive off Venice Beach, but I’ve never seen a claim that they can “legally” confiscate your phone.

While dive count can be an indicator of experience, it doesn’t necessarily mean much. I.e. I’ve seen people that claim 75+ logged dives that are absolutely clueless at setting up their equipment, absolutely erratic in the water…buoyancy wise, and have zero situational awareness, because they’re...

It’s really not, the way they ranges are binned. It’s 1.5-15 times more, which really doesn’t tell you much. I.e. I’m at ~15 times.

I did it that several times early on. If someone can get a good handle on their buoyancy in a pool, it’ll translate to an OW environment.

Yup. There’s a time and a place for a snorkel. It doesn’t take that many dives in different locations and different types of conditions to run into a scenario where it would have been nice to have one.

Smart move, OP. I once drove five hours for a dive trip, got sick on the way down (food poisoning), was in no shape to dive the next morning, and spent the whole next day sick in the hotel room. I didn’t leave the room until the following day. I felt well enough to head home, but not well enough...

Lol. I like my mix ‘n match setup. Four brands clearly visible in my case. No Air2 on a necklace though.🤡

It’s starting to warm up a bit: 4/29 - Surface 65* , 30’ 58* 5/6 - Surface 69*, 30’ 61*

If you show up to the dock for a shark cage dive and the boat and cage look like they haven’t been serviced since the Kennedy administration, are you REALLY going to get on the boat? Do you REALLY think those cylinders and regulators have been serviced recently? Realistic events given those...

I learned long ago to not try and keep track of the cost of a hobby if I want to enjoy it. Stay in budget, but otherwise…I don’t want to know. I.e. Just paid for a hydro + O2 clean + Nitrox fill for a cylinder today. I don’t want to think about the fact that I’ll be paying that much…times...

Ok. I find it amusing that you chose to ignore the first sentence of the piece that you linked to (below)…which LITERALLY says EXACTLY what I did. “ New data was released by the CDC last week showing that vaccinated people infected with the delta variant carry viral loads similar to those of...

Yup. That’s what I do. I log all dives. Confined water dives get a big ‘X’ in the dive number block though.

By “spread it just as effectively,” I mean that if you are one of the rare breakthrough cases, your viral load can be just as high as someone that isn’t vaccinated (despite you not having symptoms), so you can spread it just as easily as someone that isn’t vaccinated. Agreed.