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soon, I'd be happy to hang on to the gear for you if you have it shipped here. Nihon ni kaete kara, kizai wa nanimo harawanai, ne? (no, I'm not drunk, just speaking one of her many languages) Chris in Guam PS...did Cocos Wall drift today...had to get my air hog diver back on the boat in...

shallow...say, 60' or so. If you go much deeper, your NDLs will get so short that you have very little bottom time. The wheel is good if you can do your dives multi-level (progressively shallower through the dive) because it will account for part of the dive being shallow, where the table...

Wisconsin.....I remember seeing "a fish" and finding a sinker...other than than, just grass & sand/silt. And I loved it! Diving every day, you sometimes forget that feeling of excitement just to be underwater & breathing for the first time. Chris www.letsdiveguam.com

relaxed than you" friend (if I correctly remember your conversation over the cold :( eggplant parmesan the other night.) Hope to see you & your friends again down this way in the future....if you don't tell anybody about the ants in my house, I won't tell them about you raising a family of...

the customers to do anything with the rented weights short of flinging them at seagulls for fun..... It IS kind of a hassle to take apart a bunch of weight belts so someone can either put the weights on their own "pouched" weight belt, or use them as integrated weights...and then put them all...

won't see this. First, as with a lot of things in diving, whatever works for you, works for you. As an instructor with close to 5,000 dives now, I have to take off my mask/teach it all the time. What works best for ME, and most of my students, is to 1) have your face slightly down when you flood...

probably the same all over. Since it's so easy/cheap (maybe $35 for boat dives, only $5 or so if you do beach dives) a lot of the locals have quite a few dives (I'm at #4530 right now...) and don't really want to pay an extra $50~60 for a guide, lift to the boat, and lunch. Very understandable...

faster at depth, so you need to be very aware of that. But unless the dive is a "square profile" dive, you can still do very long dives by spending a SHORT time at depth, and the rest of the dive shallow...even if you're not (as you shouldn't be, as an OW diver) doing deco dives, taking plenty...

to book directly with either of the 2 shops mentioned. Tourists usually pay around $90~$100 for a 2-tank boat dive....which includes pickup, lunch, guide, and as much babysitting as is required. The lower prices mentioned before is just "get on the boat with 2 tanks" price....gear rental is...

they charge around $30 or so for a 2-tank trip for "walk on" divers who don't need hotel pickup or anything (+ tanks at around $5 each, I think). Tourists typically pay $80~$100 for 2 dives....but they get picked up, have a guide, etc. There are some real easy beach dives around...only...

a lot of times when I'm loading tanks into the trailer or on/off the boat, I'll carry 4 at a time if they're 67's or smaller....2 per hand, with 2 fingers each for the rubber knobs of 2 tanks....have to tilt the tanks towards each other just a bit in order to fit the width of my hand. Can't do...

about not using tables or a computer-- 1) if you're diving fairly shallow, it's unlikely that DCS would ever be a concern before you ran low on air (i.e., down to 16m/53', you have 72 minutes on the PADI table...don't have any other tables handy right now) and most divers would/should be...

I sometimes experience with Japanese divers here in Guam, many of them very inexperienced. We generally use "bar" (200 bar is full, around 50 it's time to think about ascending.) Usually it's pretty obvious how to signal air pressures between 50 & 200....for example, 120 is just one hand...

....then my boss forced me to take one. I find (echoing many previous posters) that they're a nice convenience...but I'd recommend doing enough diving with tables FIRST so that you really get a feel for them before you use the computer. Or, if you have money to burn, bring the computer along...

more out of convenience than any "choice." Back in the midwest where I did OW & AOW 20 years ago, the only dive shop in the area was PADI. After arriving in Guam 8 years ago, I was hired by a dive shop...at the time, still only AOW...mostly because I could speak Japanese, which is what most of...

I'm always using my lungs/breathing to make minor adjustments in bouyancy. This is NOT holding my breath, or taking a huge breath to compensate for being overweighted. Just breathing in a bit more if I want to go up, exhaling a bit more if I want to descend. All of this is done after neutral...

Kansai Airport...but it was ~12 years ago, before the airport existed...nuthin' but cabbage & onions as I tell my divers from Japan.) Anyhow, I taught English for a small school there. Regarding prices, I haven't lived in Japan in a while, as I said....the "name" hotels tend to be pretty...

MDA. There are some relatively cheap hotels....Hunter's Inn, ITC Hotel, Holiday Plaza come to mind. I think they're around $50 or so per night. I live in Guam, but I'm visiting family in Iowa until about the 30th...otherwise I could help out a bit more. I think you asked about transportation...

had a dive guide (instructor) drive his 15-passenger van, a dozen or so intro divers (aka Discover Scuba) to the beach, about 20 miles away. Arrived there &....ahem...."discovered" that he'd left the trailer...which contained ALL the tanks & gear....back at the dive shop. He is no longer in the...

I'm a pretty good swimmer...competed in college in swimming & springboard diving, now do long ocean races, etc. Most of the time this doesn't relate much to my ability as an instructor. Last year during a surface interval had a diver ask if he could jump in & swim (no current, flat ocean)...I...