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What do you have to offer a potential employer that makes you valuable enough that you deserve to be paid for providing it? Figure that out, figure out what dive op you want to work for and where, study the dive op to see how your employment will be beneficial to that business, create a resume...

Night dive. Black Rock, Grand Cayman. Octopuses.

I've dived with Captain Marvin, and had a great experience. That's been a bunch of years back. Don't know if they offer pick up service as I always rented a car while on island.

I have to differ with you divingpyrate. There is one cure for ageing... On a more serious note we rarely know when our time is at hand. The best I think we can do is try to maintain our physical, and mental, condition as best we can. And it sounds like you're working on that Bill. One thing to...

Always heard good things about Sunset House though I've never stayed there. I've dove with Captain Marvin, and Tortuga Divers. Wasn't traveling alone, but I was the only diver. Both dive operations rated very good in my opinion. I'd have to say that so far my favorite Cayman experience is a...

I've dove the north wall of Cayman as well as the East End. I prefer the East End because it isn't near as crowded. (Being you're visiting on a cruise I expect you wouldn't have time to dive East End though.) Sting Ray City is a fun snorkel. Just be careful you don't get your mask knocked off...

Did they have units that would've gotten you away from the noise of the birds? And did the birds create any racket at night? The cleaning part I could maybe deal with. That microwave situation certainly drops the ratings/appeal though. But since you say you cooked in how much of an...

Lots of good advice here. The length of your dive depends on a number of variants along with your emotional state. It depends a good bit on your physical makeup as well as your physical condition. Your inherited body isn't something you can change. In my experience bigger boned divers use air a...

I don't see anything about correcting for blur, and your video does look clear. My understanding is that the GoPro lens creates blur due to its construction. Did you use something to correct it? I stop overnight in Santa Rosa every Thanksgiving on my way back from Arizona, and keep wanting to...

Doesn't the GoPro store onto SD cards? Seems to me that carrying extra SDs along takes up less space (if that's a concern). Just figure out what size card you need for each taping effort. How much space do you use on a dive for instance. And get a number of cards that size. That way if one card...

Jim Rohn said that the word tip is an acronym meaning, "To insure promptness." If you want to insure promptness you take action at the beginning, not at the end. But if you're tipping in response to the service you get it's best to go with your heart. If you get great service, and you're...

Night diving is my favorite. And I really enjoy it when I hear of another diver getting converted into a night dive believer. Congratulations.

My ears often clear slowly. I've found that by pinching my nose, blowing, and thrusting my lower jaw forward works well. Also, when I feel the pressure start I stop descending, and clear before I continue descent. If my ears don't clear I ascend slightly to ease the pressure, clear, then resume...

Hmmm. If you think you breathe too fast why not just switch to doubles?

Keep your mind calm and relaxed. You breathe slower when you aren't stressed. Dive as much as you can. I live in the midwest, and don't dive much through the winter months (unless I get away to the sea). Those first couple dives each spring are always short because I empty my tank a bit...

I resemble that.

I've used peroxide for years, since before I started diving even. Maybe that has something to do with my ears not draining right away when I come out of the water. I started using it when I was young because my mother told me it healed a sore throat. I always found that true, but never...

I do know I'm not supposed to stick a swab in my ear, but when I come out of the water with no hearing because the ear didn't drain, I have a hard time helping the water get out of there. The only thing I could never resist is temptation. I recently read an article by a doctor/diver (don't...

Decisions like this for me have always boiled down to: Do I want to someday be sorry that I did that? Or do I want to someday wonder what would have happened for me if I did do that? Who was it that said, "Jump, and the net will appear?"

I once had a clogged ear passage after a dive. It didn't clear up over the next week so I visited an ear, nose, and throat specialist for treatment. He took a look with his exam tool, flushed my ear out, and told me to keep it dry. He said he seen some blockage, but that it should clear up in a...