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Thanks for the information.
I have a pretty good first aid kit, (I'm the guy in our bike club who patches everyone up, "Mr. medic").
Mosquito lotion, I use sawyers, great stuff and Cotisone cream.
I now have 20 (scuba) dives under my belt, have done and still do a lot of freediving, and have been practicing scuba skills every three weeks over at Catalina Island, but still new to the scuba world.
Tipping, yes I'll bring lots of $5 bills, I tip on the Charter boats here $5 per tank and we usually do 3 dives day. I read the tipping threads here and learned quite a bit.
An inexpensive spool is only $15, and the SMB is about $30. Can't see using the SMB without the spool/reel. I've watched the DM's deploy them in the Philppines and would practice a couple of times here with it before I take. I may buy these.
Alohagal talked me into a computer and I bought a Suunto Gekko and have been using it. Glad I made that purchase, but still use dive tables.
I have a nice pair of shears attached to BC and the very first time I had them with me got tangled in fishing line around my fins while moving thru the kelp forest. Shears cuts fishing line like a hot knife thru butter.
Didn't think about sudafed. Is it legal in Mex, because in the PI it is not.
Compass...........sounds like it may not be needed. I'm still on the fence on this, but last week we were diving in Catalina and the VIS was maybe 10 feet max. and the current was running. My buddy had a compass and it came in handy.
How about a slate/writing tool?
I am going to try and take AOW, I love reading, studying:read:, taking classes while on vacation...I know, /nerd type.
If you have any more tips please let me know, now it's back to an article I downloaded on gas management.....great stuff, I went back and calculated all my SAC rates to get an idea of my average...........I know nerd............
I have a pretty good first aid kit, (I'm the guy in our bike club who patches everyone up, "Mr. medic").
Mosquito lotion, I use sawyers, great stuff and Cotisone cream.
I now have 20 (scuba) dives under my belt, have done and still do a lot of freediving, and have been practicing scuba skills every three weeks over at Catalina Island, but still new to the scuba world.
Tipping, yes I'll bring lots of $5 bills, I tip on the Charter boats here $5 per tank and we usually do 3 dives day. I read the tipping threads here and learned quite a bit.
An inexpensive spool is only $15, and the SMB is about $30. Can't see using the SMB without the spool/reel. I've watched the DM's deploy them in the Philppines and would practice a couple of times here with it before I take. I may buy these.
Alohagal talked me into a computer and I bought a Suunto Gekko and have been using it. Glad I made that purchase, but still use dive tables.
I have a nice pair of shears attached to BC and the very first time I had them with me got tangled in fishing line around my fins while moving thru the kelp forest. Shears cuts fishing line like a hot knife thru butter.
Didn't think about sudafed. Is it legal in Mex, because in the PI it is not.
Compass...........sounds like it may not be needed. I'm still on the fence on this, but last week we were diving in Catalina and the VIS was maybe 10 feet max. and the current was running. My buddy had a compass and it came in handy.
How about a slate/writing tool?
I am going to try and take AOW, I love reading, studying:read:, taking classes while on vacation...I know, /nerd type.
If you have any more tips please let me know, now it's back to an article I downloaded on gas management.....great stuff, I went back and calculated all my SAC rates to get an idea of my average...........I know nerd............