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More important than yor feeing comfortable at depths exceeding your dive qualification limit is your accident,life insurance cover.Many companies will not honour your accident cover if you dive beyond your qualification.Ask the british diver with a 40000,00 pound deco chamber bill. Some...

Hi there, The sad fact of diving is that it hightens the anxiety factor in most people ,At the end of day anxiety can be overcome by familiar training conditions,holding the instructors hand ect. the same anxiety can hit that person tenfold,sparked by unfamilliarity,conditions and...

The main diferernce is the thickness of the neoprene, as you dive deeper the neoprene compresses so you have to decide on the thickness of material. Surf suits often use a combenation 3-2-5 etc 2mm on flexing joins ,3 on arms and legs for movement and 5mm on the chest. Dive suits as a rule...

Enough already. If you drive a ford and only a ford and are perfectly happy with a ford the ford is for you what a mercedes is to others. If you've only driven a ford you can't crit other brands. If you've driven all the makes on the market you can express your personal opinion. Bearing in...

Training as a DM trough any organisation is once again subject to the particular instruction you want.Because at the end of the day do you want to Become a DM as fast as possible and to be able to board a dive boat and say I'M A DM?.Or do you want to become a good DM. The best meathod is to...

fishing line a couple of times that reguired cutting loose. And have calmed down a few divers who felt trapped in surface kelp. Howatrd.

And welcome to the INSTRUCTOR clan. Howard

If all the prospective divers aproached training as you do i can garentee a safer sport. I can predict a bright diving future for you and wodn't be surprised if you carry on to Dive Master and instructor. Howard

The price of lenses for your mask in this country outway the option. The replacement cost if lost of stollen,the prospect of leaving them at home by mistake and wear and tear. I can tell you 99% of South African divers use contacts Howard

why not? PADI and Naui are excepted world wide The french CMAS in some cases has the lowest industry standards They might make you do a checkout dive ,before you go out diving with them but this is a basic BOUANCY controll,mask and dv clear. More a money making rittual but it does have its...

The VARIOUS AGENCIES have course standards These cover time spent in classroom,pool and on sea dives. The more time spent on a course the more you will learn above the minimum agency standards. The instuctors attitude can also teach you volumes. After a pool session recentlly another...

A full time 9-5, 6 day course is certainlly the norm around here and a crash course would a 4 day course giving you 3 open water dives. I still believe in 6 openwater dives for the person who is new to the diving world. YET it is an indevidual experience and some people grasp the concept...

Another amazing occurence is that student who is petrefied throughout the course about his first sea dive and seeing a shark. As the Training dives are done in sheltered shallow heavelly dived areas it still amazes me when we actually do see a shark on their first dive. Do these indeviduals...

There is a strange phenomenen to diving and encountering sharks.I'm not talking the aquarium or the shark reef,but in general.I find Some people have it and and others are doomed never to see a shark. We have a dive site which hosts the Spotted seven gill cow shark It can grow about 16ft...

To my mind the most usfull inventions ever. Velcro fluffs and then its passed its prime Either replace the whole stap. Or simpler go to a tarp and tent dealer/manufacturer and get them to remove and renew the velcro. Or you can do it yourself my wifes domestic sewing machine has done some...

Most divers are kicking up enough of the bottem still to encorage them to touch things. Ive often lectured guys on disturbing the wildlife and they just move on and dive with a dive leader who likes to play frisbe with the abelone,feed the fish pick up every animal of interest. I sugest...

We often have seals join us on a dive and they tend to do what you do if you do a slow roll they will roll, stand on your head and they follow. They are terably curios and if you look and fiddle under a rock they will have a look to see if they are missing out. But they do bite so don't...

Snorkling out to the drop down point and looking at everything below me is half the fun Howard

If taking another piece of equipment relaxes you ,go for it Besides general fitness,body mass(gerally speaking) and state of mind.Equipment is the next factor in breathing rate. Besides fit and comfort,drag and unformilrisation of equipment will make you suck. Next is the standard of your...

There are very few instructors out here who can survive on just instruction.Most of us do it part time and have to work outside the diving industry to put bread on the table. Why do i sacrifise my weekends and evenings to train scuba? Because i love doing it. Howard.