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Hi Guys Ive been diving since 1988 and way back then computers wern't a household item. However for the past three years I've started logging them on the PC and I've actually transfered everything over to an Excel spreadsheet. Its easy and as I use the PC every day no hassel whatsoever. Hocky

Hi Bobcarr No not at all. You can basically do the course right after your open water cert. However the Advance course won't make you an advanced diver, only experience will do that, it will however advance the diving skills that you learned in O/W. You'll learn more about navigation...

Dear All I just wanted to thank everyone involved with "the board" who over the last year have enlightened, edcucated & entertained me. Its been a a great experience and one that I know will continue over the years ahead. Well done scubaboard and well done to all the members who constantly...

Hi Guys A big thankyou to everyone who has contacted me re sending their pictures. In short, the best way to get any photographs to me is to either send them via CD (any good developing shop will do that for you) or to send me the photographs or slides direct so that I can get them to the...

Yep, thats a sad letter all right. My heart goes out to them. Whats sad is that it takes events like this to make us sit up and unite...whats great is that we actually do sit and and unite. Imagine what would happen if we didn't! Thanks for posting the letter...I have since sent it to a few of...

Hi guys Just a quick thankyou to one and all for replying to my quest...I have answered all of you individually so hopefully I will be hearing from you soon. If for whatever reason you didn't get a reply please send me an email and I'll reply again. My system has been playing up lately and...

Hi Guys Thankyou for showing interest, its a really great project and I'd love to include as many of you as I can. I have to head out to dinner (wifes birthday) and I am just home from diving (she isn't happy as Ive been gone all day) so I'll re-read all your mail tomorrow and start the ball...

Hi Dee It really doesn't matter where the photographs come from as most of the warm water fish that I'll be using are generic world wide. For instance if you happen to have photographs of Dolphins...great I can use them. If you have photographs of barracuda I can use them. Most of the warm...

Hi Everyone I am contracted to Harper Collins, the publishing house, to write a guide book (Lonely Planet style) on the best dive sites in Australia. I know, its a tough job...not. The book is almost completed and I have probably half the photographs that I need but I am missing photographs...

We have one dive location here in Sydney, just 50m from a very popular surf beach, where there is a Grey Nurse Shark hangout. I've been diving there for two years and there has always been between 10 and 30 (depending on the time of year) sharks just hanging around. Its an awesome dive, and as...

Yep...I have to agree with ya. You have to laugh and people have to take note. And your're right people will be always be offended but you learn from it and you certainly don't do it yourself...so lighten up! Hocky

CaptDave... How do you do that? here in Australia O/W courses cost A$325....thats inclusive of all books and materials. Instructors here get paid A$100.00 per day. Thats USD50.00 per day.....you break that down into 40 hours Instructors here earn USD1.25 per hour for the whole course...

Hi Bob So...(smile) you really did open a can of worms. After reading all the replies what have you decided to do? Are you going to take him diving, and if so what are the plans after that, if he really like it. Lets face it who wouldn't. I'm interested to see what happens here so please...

Hi All Someone just asked what branch of the Army I was in...I said Army Intelligence.....and he said "thats an oxymoron". He may well be right, I have no idea what an oxymoron is, so I just smiled. Hocky Only kidding

Hi blacknet No not at all. I do find the Darwin awards offensive, I have to be honest, and I remember seeing that for the first time and thinking..this isn't right. All I am suggesting is an award for people doing stupid things....like the woman standing on the whale. No one was hurt but...

Ok ... I didn't realise that you actually have to die to be a Darwin winner. Maybe with that thought in mind we should have a "if they had died they he she would have won the Darwin award but they didn't and they are still stupid" contest? What do you think? There would have to be a...

Do any of you remember seeing the whale that was found floating dead off the coast of South Australia about a month ago? They ended up having 5 or so white pointers feeding off it and it really hit the headlines when some guy jumped on its back and was waving his arms around showing what a bloke...

Please don't take him diving without getting him certified! There are a number of reasons why you shouldn't and most of them have been answered in the responses that you didn't want to hear so I won't harp on and reiterate what other people have said. However.....if you find that you...