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Hi, I'm traveling to Bled, Slovenia for all of June, and there's a big lake that I thought might be fun to dive. Has anyone here ever been diving in Lake Golf? Looks pretty cool from pic I've seen online. There are two dive shops with websites - wondering if anyone has any experience with...

Just wanted to add my 2 cents - I dove with Deep Blue Divers last summer while doing my DMT, and while I was never at the resort, we had their boat - the Wall Nut - for a week, and it was awesome! We were screaming and cheering as we'd leave all the dive boats in our wake. I also had the...

I did my DM course with Deep Blue in Utila. I looked at all the other shops first once I was there and picked Deep Blue for the opposite reasons Henry picked UDC, meaning, I liked the smaller dive shops with a more mellow scene. UDC was a flurry of activity, and that wasn't the vibe I wanted...

Big sigh of relief/satisfaction/exhaustion/euphoria. Big sigh. :D

Greetings from Utila! No curfew anymore, which is a bummer for me, as I now hear the boom-boom-boom from CocoLoco and Tranquila Bar late at night as I study GSP! Seriously, though, life is wonderful and peaceful here on Utila. The diving is great as usual. I've been here for 2 months, and...

Thanks!

I finished my DM yesterday in Utila, Honduras. It's great to be done. Thanks to everyone here who was of such great help during the process. I really appreciate it! Maureen:D

Congragts! I just did my swap the other day - but not in a pool. There were 3 people dumping sand all over us - couldn't see anything, so when the instructor jumped into the buddy breathing action I was unaware of it for the first minute, and just thought my buddy was hogging the reg! Then he...

Apparently "excessive" hyperventilation is different than regular hyperventilation in PADI-speak, which I don't speak well at all! In the review for the physio exam, my instructor talked about the difference - basically, HYPERvent = HYPOcap and excessive HYPERvent = HYPERcap. I took the physio...

This is very discouraging as I'm doing my DM right now and moving to CO in August. I was hoping to hear how great the local freshwater/altitude diving is. :(

Thanks. I just got off the phone with a doctor friend who said the same thing. I'll try to keep it straight for the exams!

I'm confused - I get that Hyper is too much CO2 and Hypo is not enough, but the book says that one is caused by hyperventilation and the other caused by rapid, shallow breathing. Isn't rapid shallow breathing the same is hyperventilation? I took a practice test where Hypo and Hyper were both...

welcome to SB! Hope you make lots of new friends!

Still haven't taken physics exam yet... been recovering from an evil flu. Was looking over answer sheet - though....made me nervous. What's up with all of those FILL IN THE BLANK questions? Guess I'm really going to have to think, huh? Any responses to my last post would be mucho...

I'm a little confused on 3 separate things: 1) why does the workbook show to multiply depth by .97 for determining gauge P in fw, but the Encyclo tells us to divide depth by 10.3 for freshwater???? Confused. :confused: 2) Flexible and Non-flex containers are bugging me out. Ok, if it's a...

I have a wicked flu, so anything that involves thought is pretty difficult. I spent the day making up problems and plugging in numbers into gas law formulas. That was really doable for my pea soup state of mind. Reading and thinking and answering questions on concepts, not so much. It's just...

I just have to report that I've spent the entire day in bed with the flu, studying physics. I did the workbook chapter last night, got a bunch wrong, and then went through and highlighted the problem sections. I've been rereading the corresponding sections in the Encyclopedia, and then...

I'm thinking of going thru the exam when I get it and putting asterisks or something on the answer sheet for any question that is FRESHWATER, as that's where I consistently make mistakes while practicing. Also the flexible/inflexible container things might be messing me up, too (though that...

I took the Divemaster Conducted Programs exams. I just came from the dive shop and told them I want to postpone the other 3 til tomorrow. I've got the flu, and I got 2 wrong on yesterday's exam which is ridiculous since I had the answers in the book, but my brain isn't processing properly...

Took my first exam today, and I'm going to knock out 3 more tomorrow. I'm nervous about physics, of course, but I'm getting a review first and my instructor gave me some great notes. :)