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I'm closer to the Oregon border than Monterey (and, sadly, inland, not on the coast) but I'm willing to consider diving just about anywhere that doesn't require a drysuit. I'm glad there's a forum for Northern California divers.

You & I are almost exactly the same size. I LOVE Henderson Hyperstretch. I have a 2-piece 7 mm suit and a 3 mm jumpsuit. Both are men's sizes - XXL for the 7 mm (I like the extra stretch for the 7 mm because it's just sooooo 7 mm, even if it does stretch and I wear a polar fleece diveskin under...

and an intermediate diver. I've been doing some altitude diving this summer, will be diving the Channel Islands in November and Honduras over new year's. I'm a middle-aged, overeducated, underpaid university administrator, a writer and editor. I swim 3/4 of a mile a day at the gym. I have 2 very...

I have a long, ugly history of ear infections -- many landed me in the hospital -- and when I was learning to dive, I thought I would literally die from water in my ears. After my OWDs, I knew I had to do something because I could not go through this. (I had my head hanging upside down draining...

I've had good experiences with Divers Discount.

I have a long, ugly history of ear infections from childhood on. Plus, the anatomy of my ears is such that they tend to hold water once it gets in there and it can take literally hours for them to drain. I've been to ENTs and had a long consult with an ENT who is also a diver, and he figured out...

This argument has never made any sense to me and here is why. When a person takes meds -- any meds, not just sinus meds -- the objective is to "stay on top" of the meds, which means to take a pill every X hours. Now, unless one is on a really long dive -- as in hours, which is pretty unlikely --...

You no doubt learned about how to determine if you are properly weighted during your dive instruction. If 10# is appropriate for you, then 10# is appropriate for YOU. The amount of weight one uses depends on a lot of variables -- everything from physiology of the diver to water temperature to...

It's not about how many women you've seen naked during your high school days in Germany, or whether your wife doesn't want to use a forum in her off-hours. It's about the fact that in this culture and in this sport, men have a great deal of power and privledge. It cannot be an accident that...