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Hi Can anyone recommend a insurance company that insures individuals for diving holidays (i.e. short term insurance), regardless of the divers country of origin? Specifically I'm looking for insurance for Turkish guests.

No, you're correct. Bugger! That was meant to be a reply to a previous reply.

e internet is full of people who say diving is a sport, not surprisingly they all seem to be divers and their reasons are varied and many but a very common reason given is that “you burn lots of calories”; that’s all well and good but burning calories is not a recognized criteria for defining a...

You be careful, telling people something diving related is fun! I teach people to Buddha hover, then horizontal, then vertical, then roly-poly (the idea being that the position doesn't matter, it's the lung control which is important). As for Buddha hovering on a "real dive", often do it on...

The regulations for Sharm are you must at least have a guide present, even if it is only in a surface supervision capacity (they have to provide briefings and be ready to enter the water). Obviously this is up to the discretion of the individual centres.

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Okay, now for the full s.p. I posted the following yesterday on my center's FB page: Pop Quiz - If you are correctly weighted at the start of your dive and you release all the air from your BCD, would you: i) Float at eye level ii) Sink slowly while exhaling iii) Sink I did plan today to...

Based on my understanding of weighting, and the general consensus of the replies, I'm going to disagree with you :) If you're weighted to compensate for the buoyancy shift, then you must be overweighted to begin with (don't confuse my use of over-weighting to mean you have too much weight for...

Thank you for all your answers. Appreciated.

If your properly weighted at the start of a dive (using ALU not steel cylinders) and 1-2 KG is to counter the air you're going to breathe during the dive, are you, in fact, over-weighted?

A Bum Deal (Queen’s Medical College (Q.M.C.), Nottingham, England, 1997) The news was good. Sort of. “We’ve had a look at your x-rays, Mr. Cooper, and there’s no breakage, just some heavy bruising”, a nurse intoned with cool professionalism. From where I was sitting, metaphorically speaking...

Thank you, Seahorse. Yeah, wasn't the best holiday I've had :) ---------- Post added May 5th, 2014 at 09:36 PM ---------- Yeah, unfortunately I do have more tales. Will put flesh to keyboard soon. ---------- Post added May 5th, 2014 at 09:36 PM ---------- My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed them.

Not really, they were (still are, thankfully, touch wood) working fine and squelch free about a week later.

It started with an itch. After Kuda Faru and returning to our island for lunch, Bill, Ben & I completed the Advanced Open Water course by fearlessly navigating a series of lines, squares & triangles in the islands lagoon under the tutelage of Antonio. I don’t remember much about the dive...

Crikey! Will not be getting quite as close to morays with the camera if they're going to do this. An amazing video (well I think so) and a happy ending for one of the combatants ...

I wish the former was true, and I especially wish the latter was true also, but thank you :) ---------- Post added April 27th, 2014 at 02:30 PM ---------- Ah, Kuda Faru! Almost sixteen years and two thousand, eight hundred and something logged dives later (approximately four thousand actual...

Your welcome.

It’s amazing how adrenaline, being thrown in to water and the worry of fish with big, sharp pointy teeth aid sobriety. One moment I’m having trouble making a coherent sentence, the next I’m as straight as a die. My options seemed straight forward - tread water, hope a bunch of drunks realized...

No, just dumb ;)

Yeah, a small tribute to the old Flash Gordon serials :)