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My family is going to vacation on Maui this fall, up a bit north of Lahaina. I'm thinking we should easily be able to do shore diving while we're there. A lot of dive shops still appear to be recovering from the fire, so that may affect whether we can go on a boat dive. One of the dive shops, on...

Getting ready for my area's annual jack-o-lantern carving dive today, I pulled on one of my fins and the bungee heel strap snapped in two! That was sad. It was on my Mares Power Plana fin. This isn't one of those white ones that were cool in days of yore, the Power Plana fins have been made for...

Back in the early '90s there was a dive shop in Santa Cruz that was a bit ahead of its time in terms of being big on nitrox and whatnot. Do any of you old dogs recall the name?

There are a lot of threads about hotels, but little about VRBO/Airbnb type vacation homes on Cozumel. My family of nine adults and six children (ages baby to I think 8) like to get together every couple of years in a vacation home. That's a lot better for togetherness than staying in a bunch of...

Rancho Palos Verdes landslide is creating a new beach. 'It's unreal'

See, right there! Caribbean Splurge: A Sailboat of Your Own (Well, Sort of)

Pardon me if this has been thrashed to death already, but it didn't show up in my search. Also, I'm not from Texas, or I'd probably already know. Is there any Austin area dive shop that does good tec training? I'm not actually interested in tec training, but in OW for a relative, and I have...

This is interesting:

Over on r/scuba someone is saying that Karen van den Oever just yesterday set a new women’s OC depth record. There’s nothing I can find on news about it, though. Anyone know if this is legit (or sane)?

It seems like many SB threads I'm reading lately are devolving into people backing up their dump trucks to drop a pile on each other. Now, I'm all for free speech, against censorship, and don't mind an entertaining flame war. But this has become nuts. The number of personal attacks is...

Usually when I dive I’m looking pretty much down. But last time I was out I was diving where I wanted to look in crevices in the rock, and the crevices were just above the bottom. So I would tilt my head sideways to the right or the left to look, and every time I did my mask flooded. I couldn’t...

Most of us can't go to DEMA, of course, but DRIS did a DEMA-like thing back during the pandemic, aimed at the unwashed masses. They put together an online dive show with a lot of manufacturers showing off their gear. It was not just glorified ads, but there was a lot of educational information...

It seems like looking at the ratio of good reaction scores to total posts (and screening out people with only a few posts since there wouldn’t be much statistical relevance in those cases) would create a decent metric showing how helpful any given member’s posts were seen by the community. Of...

The second weekend of April I might be able to get to Washington and be there for part of the following week. I gather there are seldom any charters running to Waadah Island Fingers, so I'm not exactly holding my breath for that. But does anyone know if by chance someone might be doing a trip...

I'm getting a stream of bubbles from where my inflation hose connects to the SI TECH valve on my drysuit. It's a new problem, on a not very often used drysuit. I was diving with a couple of other people, and plugged their hoses into it, and there was still bubbling. So, I don't believe my hose...

Anyone diving this? A Slimy Calamity Is Creeping Across the Sea — The Atlantic

I’m just curious about something. Twice in the last couple of years I’ve been to dive shops to pick up tanks that had supposedly been filled, only to find that they were still empty. Is that common, or just odd luck?

Brand new Scuba Tector Pro. Can't twist off the battery cap. A colleague who wins strong man competitions can't get it to come off either. Has anyone ever done this successfully?

I just got a new tank and valve shipped to me. I know for sure the valve is wrong because it doesn’t have the safety handwheel. I suspect the tank is wrong, because it looks different than the two I have. Also, the shop had said they wouldn’t be in for a month, and their website says they’re...