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Sam's Tours was terrific. Tell spouse to go for massage or shopping. You'll be back for dinner.

On St John, we stayed at the Westin and went diving with Cruz Bay Watersports. www.divestjohn.com We also hired a private boat captain and DM that we dove with before for a more tailored experience. Given your level of experience, I'd call Cruz Bay. They also do training and run day trips...

I'm trying to plan a vacation with a nondiver, but I need to get some diving in before I turn to dust. I'm considering Turks & Caicos because some dive friends rave about it, but I'm unsure. I'm looking for a destination that is new to me and offers something for the nondiver to do at a decent...

Yes the large is available.

I agree that instructors should have solid knowledge, both depth and breadth of dive experience, good teaching skills (including time management and interpersonal relations), and be passionate about diving. I'm not sure I agree with what I think is the OP's suggestion that someone with 150...

You have to send in all the paperwork (I did it electronically) and wait to get through the first round of screening which takes a couple of weeks, then you schedule an interview at one of the locations (I did mine at the nearby international airport). The interview takes less than 30 min...

OP: I think you would have been crazy to follow, and I would have asked for another buddy who would surface with me on the next dive. To me the rules of insta buddy need a corollary - I will be a great buddy but I will not put myself in danger or do something stupid just to stick with my...

A lot of places have dive clubs you can join to meet new dive buddies, learn from them and have folks to talk diving with. I'd call a few local dive shops and ask if they know of any clubs, or check a social networking site like Facebook or Meetup for clubs in your area. Another thing that...

OP, thanks for the link. I posted my thoughts on their website.

I'll defer to TSandM or any other more experienced female diver, but in my limited experience I've heard one thing that makes sense on weight distribution for women divers (and possibly true for all divers): you might use the least amount of required weight if you match the location of your...

I have felt bad thumbing a dive when stuff starts going wrong and I get stressed about it, meaning I felt sorry that my dive buddy had to leave with me. But I've never felt so bad about it that I stopped calling dives when my gut tells me this isn't a good idea. I've also sat out some dives...

1. Shore diving ranges from not too hard to manage to fairly challenging to get to the reef. It helps to know which sites you are going to before you choose your gear configuration when you are trying new things (e.g., first dives in double AL80s). 2. All of the posts about leaving nothing...

Here's another option for you: two of my good dive buddies are both married to nondiving ladies, and they dive together while their wives shop for jewelry and clothes. So, sometimes the whole gang goes "on vacation" to great places with shopping, spas, and other stuff to do, and the divers get...

Congrats on your certification. The thing about diving deep is that it's not so much different from diving in shallower depths but it does take some time to ensure you are aware of how far away your buddy is, that you feel comfortable with what you are doing, and that you understand the surface...

Mistakes I have made... Well, I'm sure there are more, but here are the ones I can remember: - Taking off my fins too soon and starting to drift away (It happened once, I put them back on and swam back to the boat. Haven't repeated that one). - Losing an integrated weight pocket during a dive...

I had one shady dive operator outside the US tell me to hand up my fins and my bcd when we were unmoored with current (and no line was deployed nor were there rope loops along the boat to hang on to) while the 25 divers boarded. I nicely told him to get the heck out of my way, I was boarding...

I've mostly seen an LDS just put tape across the DIN valves on a set of tanks once they are filled rather than messing with dust caps. My regs came with the screw on caps (I bought a pair of Apeks Tek3s).

If your backplate is stainless steel, I think that's about 6 lbs. If you have a weighted single tank adapter, that's several more lbs. So, it's not all weight drop, so much as weight shift to a location closer to your tank. Pretty cool, huh? I am just now switching too, even though my...

I started with Twin Jet Max split fins. They have a much smaller foot pocket and are lighter than the Twin Jets, but still help me move through the water. Give them a try.

In response to the original question, no my instructor did not. I am not saying he was incapable, only that my OW class was in a pool so tiny that there was little room for him to do so. I'm sure it was larger than a bathtub, but I am not sure it was as big as the pool in my parents' back...