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I've been meaning to get around to writing up a dive report and was just thinking about it today for the first time in a while. Then I come how to a PM asking me kindly to write up my experiences to help a fellow diver who plans to go in January. Who am I to deny fate? :D Fair warning - it...

We'll be in Curacao next week (wait, REALLY??) and I'm trying to decide the best tank rental strategy. We already have our car and hotel, BCDs and fins. Now we only need weights and tanks (just air for us). I've read about many dive sites requiring you to rent tanks from them. Is this enough...

Edit: Never mind. Somehow I didn't find this thread until just now: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/lesser-antilles/433189-where-eat-dinner-curacao.html From only last year with a lot of great recs. I'm just going to revive it instead. Going to be in Curacao a couple of weeks from now and...

I'm looking at booking an apartment in the Royal Palm Resort in Piscadera for next month. Anyone have any experience with it they want to share? Keeping in mind that it's a big and varied place, with all sorts of different residences/apartments. From the price I'm looking at, I'm pretty sure...

We're going to be in Curacao in mid-August, staying at Westpunt. Looking forward to some good shore diving. We've been to Bonaire once before, but my wife wanted some place a little more upscale. I'm just wondering what people's current advice on rental car companies there are. We're staying...

I've been trying to figure this out and only have my guesses to go by. Wanted to find out for sure. From what I've read and figured out from looking at my PT-EP03 housing for the E-PL2, it's autofocus only. Is this true? I know there's a zoom ring and their are focus rings for other cameras...

I've been reading thread after thread here and am quite overwhelmed. I have an e-pl2 and a pt-ep03 housing on the way. I'm looking to get a tray/arm and a strobe. I'm just getting started in serious underwater photography (last trip was a disposable) but I can't afford to drain the bank...

I'm trying to identify the fish at the far right. As you can see, there's a female stoplight parrotfish and an orange-spotted filefish to give you a sense of scale. These were all in fairly shallow water (less than 30 feet) on a daytime Bonaire reef shore dive a couple weeks ago (can't...

Okay, I'm a newbie, so I'm still trying to learn some basic creature/coral identification. I love buying the plastic cards, but often the drawings don't match up to the reality. I'm in the process of buying the Reef Set books, but until then it's really bugging me not to put names to these...

I'm looking into buying the various reef set books by Paul Humann (Reef Fish, Reef Creatures and Reef Coral) for the Florida Caribbean Bahamas region. The problem is in all the different bindings. There appears to be a regular hardcover version, as well as a version that's more...

Greeting divers! I'm just a few days back from my honeymoon to Sydney and Cairns (and airports between). The Spirit of Freedom liveaboard was everything I'd hoped it would be. And since these were the first dives since either my wife or I were certified, they helped convince us that diving is...

We're about to take head off for our Australian GBR liveaboard and want to mark up some of our equipment to help keep it identified. Is a permanent marker like this one okay to use on apollo bio-fins? Just don't want something that will in any way damage the equipment. It seems like it would...

Well, the positive news is that I am now officially a certified OW diver! The bad news is that the OW checkout dives left me with a plugged right ear. Muffled hearing and crackling, but no pain. I went to the doctor who confirmed that it had fluid behind the eardrum, but it was not...

I'm done with my OW class, about to take the written test and then my checkout dives in the not too distant future. I'm getting my honeymoon planned out and have taken some fellow SBers advice and booked the Spirit of Freedom liveaboard and Queens Court hotel in Cairns. Now I'm wonder if...

Greetings! I've been lurking for a little bit and trying to soak up the valuable information on offer. Thanks to everyone for providing such a great resource. A quick introduction before getting to my question. I'm a 33 y/o living in Minnesota and will be getting hitched in June to my...