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    Terrible santi service

    I ordered the suit March 21 through custom diving services. I received the suit June 26th and it did not fit i returned the suit to be recut on June 29th and I'm still waiting. I contacted head office and they have NO record of receiving the suit for alterations. The only response I get from...
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    Terrible santi service

    I ordered a custom set of undies from santi in March and waited 3 months for them to be delivered. The cut was terrible and I sent them back to be recut. It's now been an additional three months waiting for the recut and I've received absolutely no response from dealers or distributors. Is...
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    Advice for 36 yo looking to start commercial diving / DMT

    Helium thief and muddiver are spot on. I think you would have more chance working overseas with a IMCA ticket. Get the cheapest and quickest ticket possible. You don't learn anything in school other then how to put on a hat and sometimes guys don't even learn that. 36 is getting up there to...
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    Grand Opening of Aquasub new location

    Congrats on the new store Norbert. Better exposure with the new place?
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    UWS Commercial Diving Program Seneca

    Check out CWDI. you can get your ticket in 3 months. The key here is to get an HSE recognized ticket. Something that is good internationally. The only american school is the one in Seattle that will issue a DCBC ticket but these courses at the dedicated colleges are CRAZY expensive. The good...
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    UWS Commercial Diving Program Seneca

    Don't listen to roast beef, obviously a clueless retard. I did UWS in 2001, been in the trade for 12 years, regular rotations home, have a family with 2 kids, very good money, see the world. You will work HARD for your money and its a difficult in the first 5-6 years but if you like the idea of...
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    How comprehensive is "Full car insurance" in Bonaire?

    My son ran a truck through a concrete fence and EXTENSIVELY damaged the vehicle. It was fully covered :) Cam
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    Contemplating trip to St. Lawrence River

    These are totally doable as novice divers. I taught my son to dive when he was 13 and we dived in bonaire a fair bit. He had no problem making the switch to diving in the st lawrence. If your diving the brockville area, I would highly recommend Dive Tech and 1000 island pleasure diving on the...
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    Hamilton and Scourge survey

    Come on... Who's got co-ordinates! Cam
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    Civils work at Class II - 50 metre Surface Supply & Wet Bell Offshore Diver

    There are many different accreditation schemes in various countries but you NEED an IMCA approved school that will give you an HSE part 1 or equivalent so that you can work offshore. Find the cheapest school possible that will give you these certs so you can save money for a offshore survival...
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    Probability Primer (for Scuba Divers)

    Who ever said diving attracts nerds was onto something. Cam
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    LionFish in Bonaire

    I was there 2 years ago and did a whole bunch of 150-220' dives over a 2 month period and there were TONNES of them. I was doing 2 hour scooters along the whole west coast and EVERY coral head had em. You can hunt them in the rec range but their numbers are prolific in the tec range. Cam
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    Thinking of going Commercial

    Im not going to compare resumes on here. Ive been diving 12 years and dived in most parts of the world save the north sea and australia. I can see for myself how ruthless this industry is. If you were a global hand then you can see what happened with the Saudi Job. That summed up Global. Who...
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    Thinking of going Commercial

    650 to 750 a day for 7 months a year, 6 28 day sats a year at 35 an hour... do the math. Guys are making what your making on their day rate alone! All I can say about the gulf, No HRC 12 hour lock outs two man teams 4 guys in the bin 300 foot gas dives deep air diving .... on and on and on and...
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    New Dive Hat?

    You need to run a cold bailout with a Gorski. That rules it out right there.
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    Thinking of going Commercial

    Actually thats US dollars, but we take a hit on the exchange now that canadian is pretty much par with the US. Your economy has gone down the ****ter sorry to say. Anyone working in the US offshore is a chump. They have the biggest attitude, the least safe work environment and get paid the...
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    Thinking of going Commercial

    Not uncommon for our guys to make between 250 and 300K a year... no bull**** Cam
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    Thinking of going Commercial

    Get an IMCA ticket do some I shore work go offshore asia Skip the welding cause no one will hire you for welding alone and you can save the money for an offshore survival course. Its really hard, and the pay is **** in the beginning. But once your established, the money is awesome and the...
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    Big Bay Point

    It is a crappy dive, but it's a good training location. Innisfil has the horse racing track and slots, the cookstown outlet mall, the 400 antique bizarre and Innisfil beach park that is PACKED during the summer. Not to mention the comming BBP marina development. So they are doing ok for...
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    Big Bay Point

    You guys really don't get it! In the hay day of three shops at a time at BBP you brought nothing to the community and had pissed of residents. Now that acces is restricted, you are still not bringing anything to the community and the residents are happy!!...LOL...get it? ;) Just think about...
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