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Hi guys/girls, I'm moving to SF later this month from Australia! and will be bringing my equipment. So I hope to start diving again, it's been almost 2 years since I dived in Singapore. First question where is SF in relation to NorCa or SoCal? Cause I have no idea where Menterey County is...

I've moved to Australia and need to replace the battery in my Stinger, after checking the Suunto website and finding no luck with no service centres listed in Melbourne let alone in Australia. So I'm wondering if anyones had to replace a battery while in Oz? Pointers to where to go will be...

While watching the superbowl, we noticed that the quarterbacks had the plays written on their forearms on a slate-like device. I was wonder if our American friends had more details about what this might actually be. Is it something that can be bought and used for underwater like a slate? :54:

I'm very happy .. today my cards and certs arrived. Finally. It's been a while since I did the training and the open water dives and I have not really thought about the cards, and the training was more important. But they arrived today .. now I'll have to make room in my dive log for them .. two...

I'm thinking about what I should save up for next and was wondering what you thought might be the next important piece to add to my kit. I'm currently diving singles with a BP, I'm starting my deco course in a weeks time. I'm thinking about : Canister light Deco computer (Explorer) Reg...

I'm thinking of swapping the hoses on my first stage Apeks 200. So that I can plug the 1/2" port and use standard size hoses for all hoses. Doing this I figure that I will have to turn the first stage upside down when attaching to the tank. Any one done this before? Any issues I should be...

Hi there, I spent almost every Christmas on a house boat at Lake Eildon when I was growing up and only did sports ontop of the water, water skiing, knee boarding , bare footing and jet skiing. But now I've discovered SCUBA, it gets me to thinking what's under the water. Has anyone else had such...

I was ment to be going to Sipadian in a few weeks, but it seems that there are some problems that may stop the trip form going ahead. So now I'm looking for some where else to go (been to Manado) that I can do a weeks diving at where we can see a range of creatures / wrecks / cavens / depths...

Many divers use computers, but where do you have yours placed? Is it on the wrist - if so which wrist and is it becasue your right handed that you wear it on the left wrist? Or do you have an intergrated computer or maybe you attach it to you BC? Or something else? If you use only a...

I'm doing research on computers that will grow as my diving grows, and I've come across the term "oxygen cell input" and I'm not sure what this relates to? Is it only for rebreathers? Or is it for measuring the gas mix from a tank? Do I need it for OC diving on mixed gas?

Abyss, Aeris, DE-OX, DiveRite, OMS, ScubaPro, Suunto, Uwatec, VR3, Voyager etc. There are so many options to choose from when it comes to computers, they are become part of standard dive gear for the recreational diver, but for the technical dive are they standard? Are they used as...

Has anyone been to Sipadian and visited the Turtle Cavern? Did they allow you to dive it with out Cavern/Cave training? If not what sort of traiining do you have that allows you to dive it. Also where can I get that sort of training in Asia (Singapore prefered)? I have seen photos of this...

I see many people strugling or not with the range of diving style between DIR or not. Some people call non-DIR divers "Stroke", now this does sound derogatory but that's not the reason I write, but I can understand that when diving caves, if you are not geared right , thinking right then you...

Hi there, I just went to a briefing last night for a live aboard that I'm going on next week. The group leader suggested that we all buy a bottle of wine duty free as we enter the country, so that we can have a drink at night. He said half a glass with dinner will help with sea sickness...

I recently borowed a long hoses regulator set up and they show me how it worked, I kind of had an idea from the books and interent. I had now problems using it, even swapping to the backup reg and cliping off the long hose, then unclipping the long hose and using it to fill my SBM at our...

Hi there, recently my dives have started pushing the no-deco times on my computer, I have then been getting 4-13 minutes accent time, most of which I do at 4-5meters. Many people in our group went into decom when we did a double wreck dive, we all did our required stops. We are all diving...

I have an Apeks regulator and just purchased a Haycyon DIR Hose kit. The trouble with the Apeks reg is the main reg hose is larger than normal hoses it's 1/2" when the others are 3/8". How can I make this work? Is there a converter that will downsize the outlet on the 1st stage? Thanks