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    Missing Diver & Dog

    It's part of the US Virgin Islands, off of St. Thomas.
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    Diver recall systems

    It’s definitely intense. I don’t think we’d use the siren except in a genuine emergency. More likely we’d use the voice feature or a quick snippet of music.
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    Diver recall systems

    Considering buying underwater diver recall systems for our commercial dive boats and looking for input. Does anyone here have one, such as the models offered by Oceanears? If so, what do you like about it and are there features you think are necessary?
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    Florida in March with Junior OWD?

    Neptune Reef, off of Miami, is a great spot, with a depth of 40 ft. I'd recommend Diver's Paradise in Key Biscayne. They have their own boats and are great with kids. The owner started diving at 10 as well! Emerald Reef, another site Diver's Paradise visits is 30 feet. Check the Diver's Paradise...
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    Trying to identify an old Cocos Island scuba video

    When my son was a toddler he was obsessed with an old commercial video of a trip to Cocos Island. He's now an adult with his own scuba shop and I'd love to find a copy of the video. It was a rather cheesy low-budget VHS that must have been from the early to mid 90's. I don't know the name but we...
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    Diver Dead in South Florida

    http://cw34.com/news/local/woman-killed-in-diving-incident-near-lake-worth-inlet?fbclid=IwAR1kXbhDpG6jKb1bj6Mn11DV-DhgZpcbYdCi-W7cucs9Pf23s2HqJd0KY1Q RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating a diving incident that left a woman from...
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    Despite the warnings people traveled to XYZ and are now stuck. Who is responsible?

    The women's team, the Women’s AFE Team USA All-Stars was representing the US in the Americas Women’s Bowl, an international tackle football tournament. "On Friday, a US Air Force C-17 flew about half of the [55 member] team out of Honduras' Soto Cano Air Base to the US, according to a...
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    Oxygen availability and coronavirus

    @rjack321, His shop is on the East Coast. I don't know what they dive with or how many tanks they use. All I do know is that when there was talk of his area being shut down he received a panicked call from his contact at the aquarium making sure they wouldn't fully close. Son's shop has given...
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    Despite the warnings people traveled to XYZ and are now stuck. Who is responsible?

    Ray, I know I may seem like an armchair quarterback and/or risk averse, but the reason I’m so aware or what travel conditions were like at the time you left the country was that I gave my 18 year old permission to leave the country with a friend on March 9th after a lot of discussion about the...
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    son wants to scuba for his 8th birthday

    One thing I did with my son (in post #33) for the first few years he dove was to insist on triple buddying. He couldn’t go out unless it was with both an instructor and a parent or other adult who was solely focused on him. We didn’t trust a regular buddy or even a DM/instructor to have his best...
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    Oxygen availability and coronavirus

    My son's shop fills all the tanks for the divers at the local Seaquarium. Those divers are essential to the health and safety of many of the animals.
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    son wants to scuba for his 8th birthday

    My son did the SSI Scuba Rangers program when he was 8. One of the good things about the program is that it introduces kids to the science and practice of diving slowly and deliberately in a controlled situation. The kids all had plenty of time to thoroughly learn their equipment and to get...
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    Despite the warnings people traveled to XYZ and are now stuck. Who is responsible?

    While I'm sympathetic to the situation faced by this couple, by March 9th the State Department was counseling colleges to bring students home from all study abroad programs and colleges and prep schools starting spring break that week were telling students to bring home anything they might need...
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    Cincinnati diver dead after Spiegel Grove - Key Largo, Florida

    Didn't mean to imply RR did anything wrong. I was just thinking that any time you lose someone, even if it's from natural causes and unforeseeable, it's emotionally tough, and to have it happen twice makes it even harder. Wikipedia, quoting a Miami Herald article, reports that "There were...
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    Cincinnati diver dead after Spiegel Grove - Key Largo, Florida

    Sadly, the same dive op, Rainbow Reef, had another death at the Spiegel Grove in May of 2017. No foul play or negligence ever alleged AFAIK. I was with a group of longtime instructors who dive the Spiegel when the news came in and one commented that the Spiegel can be dangerous for...
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    Any Key Largo Dive Shops Include Divemaster Guides For Free?

    South Beach Divers, out of Miami Beach, will take you to the Keys and will soon be including a guide for free. They're under new management.
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    Dive, dive, dive! (Can you help me find this video?)

    Trying to locate a really cheesy dive video my son fell in love with as a toddler, 18 or 19 years ago. It was narrated by an older man and followed a group doing a live aboard trip to Cocos Island. We can't remember the name because we used to refer to it by its most salient line, '[then it was...
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    Youngest Certified Scuba Diver in PADI History

    Some kids really are ready at an early age. Despite the fact that no one in our family dove, my son was begging us to let him dive from the time he was a toddler. At an age when other kids were watching Sesame Street he was fixated on an old Jacques Cousteau video. He took a Scuba Ranger course...
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    Moving to Boston, MA, bring my gear?

    Lobster gauge. Also, didn't see if anyone has already said this, but if you're catching bugs make sure to give the lobster traps a wide berth. Local lobstermen work hard for their catches and are not fond of poachers. The first time my husband and son went diving for lobsters they used a trap...
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    Do PADI crew packs expire?

    I mentioned the hologram because I believe it's used in place of the PIC in some international locations where PADI's had problems with fraud. Thanks for the responses everyone.
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