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Ok...I guess I mis understood the situation. Now let the judgements continue.

Wasn't this involving an airplane accident? Wasn't he trying to maybe save a life? Are we asking the wrong questions here? If I saw a plane go down I would dive past my "training" but within my knowledge to see if I could help. Training and experience are two different things. Situations call...

I recently made my first trip back to the states in nearly 3 years...I have never encountered Jet Lag, but that time (old age?) it was a nightmare. Maybe the world is spinning different. Glad to hear you had a good experience with them. I hear they have a good team. Regarding jet lag less than 3...

I guess the question is who is famous and selling more photos. If he is talking about a little dodging and burning in photoshop, that is something Ansel Adams did years ago I am pretty sure.

First, I agree the trouble of going through the TP joke was probably best left to the pub or such places. Anyway, where I live the right tools are never easy to find so when you come across something that works good you take note of it. I had the pleasure of two days under a 330 fuel...

Don't bother, you can use the analyzer the provider of the gas has. Yes...but do you trust the analyzer the gas provider has? This is mostly tongue in cheek by the way. I don't have a tin foil hat and fortunately for me the gas I use is provided by the equipment I am in charge of. But I do...

At first I thought this was a real question and wondered why at 5,000+ dives you would have to ask such a question. Now I understand it to be another "oh no, what else can we do to make sure we can go diving safely!" Theoretically, if you are buying air from a source that could accidentally...

Sometimes people don't have to come right out and say that the "training sucked", but when I read some posts that's the impression I get from some instructors. That and if I had taught them nothing bad would ever happen. I have personally turned off, to fill, thousands of tanks and some that...

If you are talking to me, I suck it up on a regular basis. I think you are mis understanding the thread direction. I was making a point that shopping on Ebay and the internet is not always the cheapest route in some parts of the world as per the OP statement. You try sucking up paying 1,000...

I totally agree that in Florida while I was spending my life on the water I never used anything but the VHF channels. But you get out of Florida or the US and you don't always have that luxury. For where I was and what I needed (I didn't need wave heights or inside/outside info, just speed and...

I thought I mentioned something about wunderground earlier. I guess it got swept up in the cleaning. I would not plan for a storm when I was working the Caribbean without reading Dr Master's blog. He told it straight, no hype. They had a great blackberry app and I dove the Cayman Aggressor...

I have a liquid skin with about 1,000 dives on it and the only problem is the skirt turned yellow and it looks like crap. But to be honest, it started out comfortable but ended up being a mask I had to wear too tight for some reason. After three dives the bridge of my nose is sore. I just picke...

Just a hunch, but something tells me you lost a few too...haha

Try shipping new gear from Ebay to my zip code then go down to customs and have some fun...bring cash though. Oh...and bring a lunch and maybe some valium. Oh...and cash. They will spend hours looking up each article and telling you exactly what the retail price should be, print you out a new...

What about opening up a dive shop where there is no Cosco?

They must not have wanted to sell a course very badly. For one thing, just a blanket "you must answer no to all the questions" is a terrible approach. Sitting down with the student and going through them one by one and if they have any questions regarding a specific one and explaining that...

Ahh south Florida in March. In like a lion out like a lamb. What I saw was 15-20 out of the east which can go either way. I am not sure where a 15-20 east wind forecast would create 5-8' seas, but that would be a bit fun. I am sure some local operators will chime in accordingly...Maybe Key...

Is it possible you are confusing bitterness with ego?

I could have rid you of that thought if you had joined me on the 7, 90 minute dives under an oil tanker a couple of weeks ago. I got the underwater gear, lucky me. It was unloaded so the top of the rudder was at the surface. She was at anchor and there was a slight chop. Fun fun fun...

I'm pretty sure they are making more than $100/week too. I don't know as a fact, but I would imagine, especially the instructors and up do better than that salary wise.