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This is definitely true. The TSA checked our bags manually every time we flew and left their little flyers in there saying they had cleared the bag.

Guesstimate is about 15lbs. I match up pretty closely with your description of yourself and your gear, except my height is lower at 5'10" and I recently used 17lbs on a dive in the Bahamas. I was a little overweighted and probably needed to drop about 2lbs. I was in a full 3mm with an AL80 as...

I've done one dive trip so far, and it was on a cruise ship, so we had to carry our gear on and off the plane, on and off the ship (both at port and when we docked in the Bahamas). We carried everything with us except tanks and weights. We checked everything as we hate carry-on suitcases and...

We weren't trying to swim in different directions. I was just holding on to her so we wouldn't get separated. She was following me, but because I was holding on to her it was constantly turning us both. The rope idea is good, one that we can both hold on to so we don't get separated, but...

Sorry about the long story up front. I had an interesting dive this weekend with my fiance. We got certified together about 6 weeks ago, and this was our 9th dive. We went to ABWA in Pelham, Alabama. We started off from the dock with the intention of making an arc past a few things they have...

I'm new as well. Why wouldn't you bring Scubapro jetfins to Bonaire? My fiance has the Scubapro twin jet fins is why I ask.

The whole responsiveness issue in the scuba industry is a problem. It is absolutely ridiculous that it takes 6 to 8 weeks for a permanent card to come. I had to go back and get a second temp card because the first one expired and I still don't have my permanent card about 6 weeks after...

I have to agree with everyone that says this is a good introduction to SCUBA. My fiance and I did the SNUBA adventure at Atlantis in May of this year, and it is what got us to decide to become fully certified for SCUBA. The SNUBA adventure was exactly what you describe, a raft with a tank and...

Both myself and my fiance are 32, and newly certified divers.

I'll be using the exact same gear so the only difference should be the salt water vs fresh water. I'll start out with about 7lbs extra and see where I end up. It just seems like it will be hard to do a weight check in the water while everyone else is jumping in and starting their dives. I...

So, if I weigh about 300lbs with all my gear on, and only need 8lbs in fresh water with an AL80, I would need around 7 - 8lbs of additional weight (double what I had before) just going from fresh water to salt water?

We are definitely going towards our advanced diver certification, although SDI (the agency we trained under) doesn't require a night dive or a deep dive (unless you do the adventure diver program). They only require any four specialty classes (we are already signed up for buoyancy and will be...

I am a newly certified diver having completed OW certification about a month ago. Since becoming certified I have done two quarry dives with my buddy (my fiance who also just got certified). We did those dives on our own with no assistance or supervision from any dive master. We are going on...

Which is ridiculous given the huge number of three letter acronyms and other words used in diving.

I don't know about Vortex, but I have been to Pelham and you can rent steel tanks from them for like $8 (check their website to confirm). It is really easy when you get there to just rent from them, and based on your location and the fact that you are entering law school, I have a feeling that...

It would be interesting to see the percentage of people on this forum that believe strongly in personal responsibility that are liberals vs. conservatives (as opposed to democrats vs republicans which isn't the same thing). You would expect a very strong correlation between conservatives and...

That's crazy. That has to be $10k to $15k worth of gear.

Great article so far, but you have got to correct all those misuses of "loose" that should be "lose". I couldn't even get past the second or third paragraph as it was about to drive me crazy.

Only 6 times so far this year, but just got certified a month or so ago. I won't be able to go as much as others on here, but I'm hoping for 20 to 40 times a year.

I am one of the new divers just joining this sport, and I hope that I don't get "bored" with it, especially after I spent so much money on equipment, but I could see it happening. I think the biggest factor for me is the lack of places to dive that are convenient to where I live. The closest...