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    SSI and turning off air?

    Ditching your weight would be the last resort as this will lead you into an emergency buoyant ascent, greatly increasing your chances of DCS or over expansion injuries. It becomes a last minute decision. A diver running out of air will will feel the regulator get harder to breath therefore let...
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    SSI and turning off air?

    Having certified hundreds of SSI Students and doing pool sessions with almost double the amount of SSI pool students, I have always combined the CESA with an Air depletion scenario. The air depletion is a seperate skill in it self to give a feeling of being out of air. As for doing it with and...
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    Frontier adds additional fees for SCUBA

    As I am reading the print out copy in front of me everything seems to be based on check in luggage only, except for a pet in the cabin.
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    Frontier adds additional fees for SCUBA

    You could just throw your plate in a back-pack
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    Frontier adds additional fees for SCUBA

    Gear is compact enough now with light bc units and hoseless computer systems that packing it into a carry on is an easy thing to do. If you have to fly Frontier this may be one way around that system.
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    Search and Recovery info

    I can run you through an ERDI (emergency response diver program) here in Greeley at Tortuga Bay. This program beyond the recreational side of search and recovery. With this cert. you can be on a team for search and rescue or you can be an independent. You will learn opps. such as full face mask...
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    Tipping Instructor

    It is what it is. Yes I do tip an instructor that teaches me skill that could save my life. In all my steps of training from open water up to Instructor trainer and my Emergency response training through my technical training I never stop stop learning and am greatfull to instructors that can...
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    Tipping Instructor

    I agree with Oly I've only been teaching for 14 years and in that time have only recieved 1 tip. was it expected? NO but it should be accepted. Didn't your instructor teach you the 1st 2 rules of SCUBA? 1. never hold your breath 2. always tip your instructor. Plain and simple if you don't want...
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    Tipping Instructor

    The Scuba industry is NOT a tip expected industry but if people would like to tip for services, that should be there choice and because there are folks that believe tipping is a no no for certain fields leads to service that may not be what you expect. As I mentioned before there are many ways...
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    Tipping Instructor

    Tipping is tipping it doesn't have to be currency. Every trip I take or additional training I take I always contribute something, whether it's a new SMB that the dive master can use because of the minimal access to new gear or a dinner for the instructor. There are many ways of tipping besides...
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    Tipping Instructor

    As an instructor, tipping is an option to a student depending on what kind of service they receive. I bet everyone that has replied to this thread has gone out and ordered a salad and left a tip for the waiter or waitress. We don't tip our wives or husbands so why tip a waiter or waitress that...
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    Dive shop help for San Pedro, Belize

    The best dive operation I have found is Amigos Del Mar and they do pick up at any dock needed. They will also pamper you to the point of no return. I will be headed back to Ambergris on the 11 of march but will be using Aqua Dives a new for me but decided to try someone different. I have used...
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    Blue Hole Divers....

    I was there this past weekend. Vizibility was around 20' they are not done yet but opened it for the weekend. Allot of people thougg.
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    Blue Hole closing next month for dredging

    It is available online at www.santarosanm.org plans for the new building and parking lot
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