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Buddies and I were planning on diving the wrecks at Subic later this week and early next week. Heard the Coast Guard divers are training in Subic Bay, so the wrecks are off limits to other divers. Can anyone provide any information? We will grudgingly go there if the New York is off limits, but...

Greetings, I'm looking for one or more folks to dive with when I visit cave country next week. I'll be in the Luraville area and hope to dive Jan. 30th, 31st, and Feb. 1st. I'm full cave but dive backmount only. I'm willing to drive if the cave systems near Luraville aren't convenient for...

Greetings, I'm curious about the probability of most of the North Central Florida caves getting flooded out in winter (I mean, not literally flooded, but tannic river water ruining the visibility in the caves). Your informed opinions and advice would be much appreciated. I'm looking forward...

Hi, some buddies and I are thinking about doing some muck diving but haven't decided where to go yet. After many trips to the Philippines, I've still never been to either Anilao or Dumaguete/Dauin. Which location is best for critters and macro photography? (We will probably go in early...

Hi, I'm looking into my options for a summer trip and remembered meeting some divers who recommended the islands of Indonesian Borneo. They said it's like Sipadan and Mabul but better because there are so few divers there. Have any of you been there in recent years? What was your experience...

Greetings. I'm considering going back to Subic Bay for some tech diving, and am wondering about other divers' recent experiences with Boardwalk and with Arizona dive centers. Which should I choose, and why? We'll probably want to do at least a day inside the New York (maybe two) and also see a...

Greetings, I plan to go back to Thailand in early July and would like to do some diving -- preferably tech diving, since the west coast liveaboards will be out of season and I've seen most of Thailand's other recreational dive sites already. Is anyone running trips to the wrecks in the Gulf...

Does anyone have any information about diving the caves at Du An (in Guangxi)? I've read some articles about a couple of exploratory dive expeditions, and I recall reading something about a technical dive center opening up to provide services to cave divers at Du An, but I have found very, very...

I stumbled across this and wonder what all y'all have to say about it. I look back upon my training and wonder if all those bottle movements and unclippings-reclippings were necessary, or whether I could Keep It Simpler. I got it from here: 2nd gas switch « Tec Diving Indonesia "2nd gas...

Who in Pattaya should I use for an easy tec dive to work on my rusty skills before doing some big technical dives? I'm going to be in Bangkok for a while shortly before I go off to do some technical diving. After several years and a few hundred dives with the old wetsuit, now I've got a new...

Greetings, I'm trying to fit a trip to the HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales into my schedule and I hope some of you can offer some advice. First: backgas. I will dive trimix for the POW but am considering using air for any Repulse dives which don't include penetrations. What are the...

Greetings, I want to go back to Subic Bay with some friends but don't want to go if we can't dive the USS New York. I know that occasionally the authorities close it to divers (if, for example, there's an especially important US Navy ship in Subic Bay? And/or some other reasons??). Can...

Greetings, I'm hoping to get some advice about Puerto Galera dive centers. My buddies and I are all fairly experienced divers (a couple hundred logged dives is the minimum among us) so we don't want to get put together with newbies or in any big groups. We all have good air consumption...

This article's main point isn't surprising news to anyone who has been diving around Kending. The researcher who is quoted in the article calls for a fishing ban within the park. I agree with that proposal but I also think that they need to identify and then control the source or sources of...

What is the status of Apo Reef these days? I was planning on a liveaboard trip to Coron and Apo Reef for February, but over the weekend I spoke to a guy who has done lots of diving in the Philippines and said that he dived Apo Reef last year (2011) and was very disappointed by the coral...

Any suggestions for finding bathymetric maps/data for a given set of latitude and longitude coordinates near Taiwan? I want to get some Taiwanese and expat tech divers together to go and find some WWII wrecks, but first I'd need to know whether they're likely to be within diveable depths...

Any suggestions for finding bathymetric (how deep?) maps/data for a given set of latitude and longitude coordinates near Taiwan? I want to get some Taiwanese and expat tech divers together to go and find some WWII wrecks, but first I'd need to know whether they're likely to be within diveable...

Advanced Trimix Course I didn't start out choosing Evolution as the dive center to use; instead, I chose one of Evolution's owners, Matt Reed, to be my instructor for my trimix course and then for convenience I used Evolution's services for my recreational diving too. Prior to the course I...

Smaller animals So-called House Reef is teeming with life and was one of my favorite dive sites. Despite the name, it isn't really a reef; rather, it's a sandy area with some short-bladed seagrass and the occasional small coral-encrusted rock. I regret only doing one dive at House Reef, where...

Big animals Thresher sharks. Malapascua is famous for the pelagic thresher sharks which visit Monad Shoal, a seamount cleaning station where little wrasse service the big fish. Few if any other places around the world offer such good chances of seeing these rarely-encountered sharks...