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I have a small knife....and i´ve never used it....so i am hing=king off let it at home...

Diesel, have I offended you? I am sharing opinions and I am sure I am not a jerk!! In my last trip to Coz, I dove a fully week with the same dive shop. I dove 10 times and I did´t tip. The guys gave me the same service from the very beginning till the end. I guess it is because they expect a...

That is right, but I am not confronting you, only the idea, so forgive me. Ok, let me ask you...do you tip the guy renting a perfect car for you? do you tip the guy who sold the airplane ticket for your trip? The answer is no, because you believe you have already paid for that service and...

I guess I just answered partially...I've explained that I prefer to pay only one time to the whole services and pay for those is charging me and not for who want a bonus from me. The other part is "express your opinion to the crew before you do your first dive." I use to do that, not on...

I got it. I would pay more for the services if necessary. Diving is a expensive activity and I think you have to choose if you can or can't pay for that. Many people will never dive because they spent their rare money on things they need or prefer.I love diving and I would pay for that. My...

Sorry to say that.I coudn´t see all posts, but basically there are 2 questions. 1- Are DMs working for tip? 2 - What is their role as DM? I will not address this, because you have said everething.:D I know a little the "north american" mentality as I have 2 sister living there, but I...

It's easy to understand why they followed the DM, most of new dives just feels comfortable following DM, speacially at complete unknow sites. Besides that, usually in these paradises, DM never looks backwards to see if you are ok, they are act like guides, not as DM should act. Many dives at...

DA, I agree with everything you said, but the last statement, well, I don't know if it's because I am not a native english speaker, but sounds to me like fatalist... In my "portuguese" version of that, I would say " ...without the right equipment and training you maybe not survive to ...."...

This was my deepest dive and I just went there because there was something to see, and the conditions at Noronha are the best ones. I wouldn't go so deep with 10m visibility or real strong current nor a line to follow. I agree with you I haven't a stage with me, but we dove as a compact group...

Well, I guess it was because in our group was Daniel (instructor and friend of the Aguas Claras instructor Beto). So going to Corveta was 2 instructors and 3 of us already known by Daniel. Cordilheiras, the dive we did before, was not so deep, but with a strong current, so I guess we have...

It's a way of life;.....better a bad day diving than a wonderfull day working!!!

I couldn't post before, but it 's nice to see how people with a poor base info start to imagine profiles and criticizing what they didn't see. I expected to hear more statements like DA Aquamaster has done and not coments like, take a course before doing that. So, in order to give you what...

LavaSurfer, maybe I can explain better what I want to say. Sorry but I don`t want cheat the system, but understand why I need do some things and not just believe the tables and/or computers are strictly right. The point is the following : when your are diving a entire week, twice a day...

May I change a little bit the focus of this discussion to ask other thing about Nitrox... Here in Brazil we have a paradise called "Fernando de Noronha". It is a island an our flight far from the shore. There is a war ship sunk at 63m, but usually we go to maximum 53m. Sometimes has...

Walter, DA got the general idea, and sorry about my bad english. The point above is the folowing: Imagine that we could prove that Oceanics algorithm is wrong and people who use Oceanics computer are starting to be bent. As we do against cigarretes, we could take Oceanics to the court and...

Cavediver, you told me what I wanted at the end....actually, I needed to put some ideas in a way to provoque discussion, but I guess the right thing to do is to do what you suggest in the middle of a dive sequence. For instance, to dive the 3 first dives with air and the 4th with 32 ean, than...

Scubajcf, I enjoyed this discussion because most of the people contributed to my better understanding of this situation. I could go directly to the books and decide what is better to me, but this forum concentrates experiences I've never had. I read Tec Deep manual of PADI and almost gave up...

Walter, as I don't know how to split answer likw you, please let me give a estensive explanation.... I am sure tables are safer than computers, but tell me if you do square profiles 100% of the time, I would be surprise if you follow your plan more than 20% of the cases. So I believe tables...

Thanks by your answer, but one point botters me... Let say that I buy another computer, don`t you think that I am doing exactly the same, which means, changing the algorithm in order to get extra bottom time? Well, changing this in the same computer or in other one to me sounds equal! Don`t...