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Thanks for the advice. I definitely plan on getting more into the technical aspects of the sport in the next couple years, at which point these options will be a lot more viable. Until then, I don't plan on doing a lot of solos. I have several friends that dive and if any of them were around...

You have a point. I wasn't just strutting off to do a solo dive and impress anybody (as if there would be any reason to be impressed). I just wanted to do another dive and didn't happen to have a partner and I was comfortable with what I was doing. To be honest, I'm sure nobody besides my...

I did my first solo dive last weekend at our local freshwater spring (blue hole, santa rose, new mexico). I almost did one solo in Bonaire in January because my girlfriend was tired and didn't want to do another dive. I insisted I would be okay alone, but she accompanied me anyway. I bought...

I did the same entry at Oil Slick. My girlfriend at the time pussed out and climbed down the ladder, BOO! I love Bonaire. Shore diving kicks ***.

He was assisting another instructor and 2 dive-cons with a 5 or 6 person OW class. We ran our rescue scenarios towards the end of the OW dives for our first couple dives. Our last rescue scenario dives we were basically told what depth to be at and that "something would happen." It's not easy...

HOOCHIE MAMA!

Yes it did.

My rescue instructor tried to knock off regs and masks during pool training. When we did out open water dives he told us we might encounter "panic" but that he wouldn't attempt to knock off masks or regs. I think that's a good policy, although it's always good to be prepared to have your mask...

I dove The Eagle in 9/06. I had about 15 dives at the time and it was no problem. It's deep, but the conditions were good and the current wasn't strong when we dove it. I think my max depth was 105 ft., pretty close to the sand. It was my first wreck and I loved it. If the conditions are...

I was geared up at the shore, about to enter the water for my second stress/rescue certification dive. My instructor was already in the water. My two classmates and I noticed my instructor helping a diver on the surface towards us at the shore. As they approached, it was clear that the diver...

I got a good deal on a 3 suitcase set of swiss army luggage at Marshall's. I use the big one for dive trips and it has held up great.

Consult your tables.

re: scamming A couple years ago I worked as an operator at a Relay company that provides phone service for the hearing impaired. More that half of the calls we handled when I worked there were routed through the internet from Lagos Nigeria. They were all credit card scam calls, with the...

From reading others' ideas and viewing the footage, I think the diver was attempting a bouce and suffered from O2 toxcicity at the bottom. He didn't appear distressed or injured during the descent. He didn't "present" the computer to the head-mounted camera because he was just looking at it...

Get some booties with thick rubber soles if you plan to do much shore diving. I did okay with "regular" booties with the thinner soles but when I go back I will definitely get thicker soles. A lot of the shore diving entries are rocky. You can do without the thicker soles but you will be more...

The Town Pier was crowded when we dove it but I think that's unavoidable and it's still very much worth diving. The reason it was crowded is because it was not available to dive all week because there were ships docked there. The night we dove it was the first open night of the week so...

Crowded dive sights were not a problem for us in January of this year. If you're boat diving, most of the sights only have one mooring line to tie onto so your group will most likely be the only one on the sight. The only exception would be if somebody was shore diving the same location at the...

Oh yeah, I forgot to say... We heard awesome things about Pasa Bon Pizza and planned to go there one night at 9pm. We were going late because we dove the Town Pier at 7 and had to change and take care of our equipment. When we got there they were out of pizza dough! arggg! We had lasagna...

I was there in January and had a great time. All of the dive sights we did were great. You should definitely check out the Town Pier if you have a chance. It's not available to dive if there is a cruise ship docked there. You have to schedule a dive with a local dive master who coordinates...

Where would you rank Keystone Light in that list? My buddies and I put down many a 30 pack of 'stones in the college days. You can't beat $12 or $13 for 30 beers;) Now that we have jobs we won't touch that crap.