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FTA: "A Victoria pilot boat scooped up a scuba diver in distress off the Ogden Point breakwater Sunday afternoon and brought him to a waiting ambulance. Victoria Fire Capt. Dan Mollberg said two people were scuba diving off the end of the breakwater around 1 p.m. when one of the divers got...

Last weekend I went for a dive and during the equipment check my reg broke. (Second best time to have them break, I guess.) It is (was?) an excellent Poseidon Cyklon 5000. So, no diving until I get some new equipment. Unfortunately, nobody in town can service Poseidon equipment. It sucks...

This will be a long story, but it was expensive. Sometimes you don't get to hear what the story is,because not everybody lives to write about it. I'm a pretty intelligent guy. I am a Professional Engineer by trade. I dive conservatively and try pretty hard to stay on the safe side. I'm not...

Hi guys. After taking a look at the airfare, accommodation, and everything else, I think I'm going to take a trip to Belize this August. I've never managed to get anywhere tropical for diving, this will be a 40F+ jump in water temperature. It's about 13 hours of travel to get there (I've done...

What exactly is a rashguard? That may sound like a dumb question, but the problem is that we just don't have those up here. With 40F water in the summer, the lightest protection you can get is a 7mm john/jacket wetsuit, and even that's a little light. So I've only seen pictures of a...

Hi everyone. I am looking for two diving destinations. My wife and I had been planning to go to Hawaii for our 15th anniversary, which is coming up July 2013. In the years since we made that plan and now, she's been there 3 times so she's less interested in going. She doesn't dive, although...

The Saanich Inlet is incredibly popular; I dive there all the time. I wasn't diving yesterday because my suit's leaking and I've got a Miflex recall. Man dies after dive in Saanich Inlet BY CINDY E. HARNETT, TIMES COLONIST MAY 20, 2012 A man died Saturday after a scuba-diving accident in...

I could not for the life of me find a place to put this. I thought of the photography forum, but they seem to take that stuff pretty seriously. I got this for Father's Day, my kids wanted to treat me to a boat dive. They're 5 and 7, and it was the 5-year-old that sounded out "boat" and...

Hi everyone. Work is sending me to Halifax for a large portion of July. I've got one day free, and that's the 17th of July, the Sunday. Is anyone planning a dive, is there a dive group, or is there a shop with a drop-in dive for that Sunday? I've got the whole day free so I can squeeze in...

I want to get a relief valve installed in my drysuit. My current plan, which is "pee right before the dive and then once you get the suit off" is getting more outdated as my dives get longer. (What can I say? With the gym next door I've been going to spin and yoga. Oxygen's for suckers.) My...

I just got a brand-new custom-fit Sea-Tux. I took two days off work to get it, and I've been waiting for it for almost a year. (I was waiting for a certification to come through first, and this was my "hooray for me" present.) When I put on the SI-Tech dry gloves, they cut up the seals and...

I may be traveling to Halifax for work in the next week or so, and staying until mid-December. With no wife or kids in tow, I'll have all the time I could hope for to get in a bunch of dives. Almost all my dives are cold water shore dives. I have never traveled with any dive gear. 1. Is there...

I didn't know where to post this, so here we go. Yesterday I went for a drop-in dive at my friendly local dive shop. I hadn't been since mid-April, and we had a brief gap in the schedule so I had time to dive. When I got to the shop, I realized the last dive was #48 and I had two tanks with...

Hi, I have a request for guidance. I couldn't find any tips on the board or on google, so hopefully this is the right place to ask. I bought my drysuit when I weighed about 20 pounds more than I do now. The neck seal leaks since I don't fit it anymore. All seals are neoprene, as is the suit...

I'm 32 today, and yes, I am wearing a birthday hat all day today. I've recently been allowed to start diving again. I got some palpitations after a dive in September, and after 3 months of testing, I got the all-clear from my doctor. I had been wondering how much I'd get for all my gear and...

Hi everyone. Over the last 8 weeks, I've lost about 10 pounds. I'm now down to a reasonably fit 175. I've been biking to work and using a Wii Fit. I bought my drysuit when I was 190, and now I think the neoprene seals aren't fitting. There's a fair bit of water getting in, and from what I...

Hi everyone. A short bio: I'm a married Electrical Engineer with 2 kids, a van, and a mortgage. I've got AOW and 40 dives. I just did two nice night dives this week. There's a great story about how I got my primary light should anyone care. All my dives are local shore dives in BC; it...