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It looks like I will be on a work trip to India Aug 3 - Aug 17 next year. I could come early or stay late and pop down to Maldives. I would like to do the tiger shark thing in Fuvahmulah but know the timing puts me in the middle of the monsoon. Anyone been to Fuvahmulah in July or August...

This trip was a covid delayed trip that was supposed to happen in 2020. I apologise for how long the report is, it was such a great trip that I didn’t know what to leave out! Komodo I had originally booked for five nights on the Busy Girl liveaboard, which was originally operating under the...

I booked the Busy Girl with Scuba Republic a year ago (well actually it was rebooking a Covid delayed trip having left my deposit with them). I am supposed to depart on Oct 16 and get off on Oct 21 and then fly out to Bali in the morning on the 22nd. Apparently there has been a management...

I'm going to be on the Gold Coast in January and have discovered that the operators seems to be all diving the new Wonder Reef artificial reef much more than other local sites. I will head down to Julian Rocks at Byron for one day, but will do another locally. Has anyone actually done the...

I'm planning a (covid delayed) trip to Komodo in October next year. On the way home through Bali I'm planning on diving a couple of days and tossing up between Tulamben and Nusa Lembongan. I have dived both before, some years ago. Seeking 'the wisdom of the tribe' on a few of questions: If...

My wife and I are going to Fiji in May and staying at the Shangri-La Fijian. This is not a dive trip, but I have been given dispensation to dive a couple of days. Three questions: I want to do one of the shark dives in Beqa Lagoon. Has anyone done that from the Coral Coast and what is the...

I swapped out the battery on my wife's Puck Pro but when the new battery goes in, after it does the count down it just starts continually beeping and displaying depth of 576 and av depth of 56.5 on the top row. I thought I might be doing something wrong in screwing the back on, but it does it...

We're doing some long range planning and considering a post-Covid-19 lockdown trip to the Maldives. I'm the guy who will dive every dive offered on the boat, my wife will do the ones that don't require getting up early and don't require too much work and we have two teenage daughters who don't...

I have an old Olympus TG-4 with the Olympus housing that I enjoy using on holiday dives. I am not a serious photographer and am happy to let the automatic settings do the work. But I was thinking of getting some strobes to bring out more colour in my shots. I was originally just going to buy...

So my Komodo trip on October is off (insert sad face here). It looks like it will be Australian diving for a while. Can someone tell me what water temp is like in South West Rocks in Oct? Is that a good time on terms of grey nurse shark numbers or not? If you could visit there there at any...

I just got off Voyager of the Seas that sailed from Sydney yo Noumea, Port Vila, Lifou and Mare. I had arranged diving in Port Vila and Lifou. In Port Vila I dived with Nautilus Watersports. They were great. It was just me with a dive guide and boat guy and we dived the Konanda wreck and...

Where do those on a budget of $US100 or less per night stay in Labuan Bajo before and after a liveaboard (one night either side)? Looking for quiet, reliable shower, decent wifi and either walking distance to restaurants or free shuttle to and from downtown.

I just want to double check something. I have an aluminium Light Monkey backplate. I am eyeing a good deal on a Halcyon Eclipse 30 wing that comes with a bonus Halcyon Single Tank Adaptor. The spacing on screw holes is standard across brands right; I can use the Halcyon wing & STA with the...

I going on a cruise later in the year and I'm trying to find out if there is a functioning (and safe) dive shop on Lifou. Searching the web isn't turning up much except for this. Has anyone got recent experience diving with them, or someone else in Lifou? They seem to have had a change of...

I'm going to Misool Resort in Nov, via Jakarta, Garuda all the way. We have a 8hr layover in Jakarta. Is Sorong so small that I will do immigration and customs in Jakarta, or will our bags get checked all the way through and we do it in Sorong? Does anyone know?

There hasn’t been heaps on here recently about Dahab, so I decided to jot down some things from my recent visit (Jun 23 – 29). I had been in Jerusalem for a conference, so flew down to Eilat on Arkia (23kg luggage limit for tourists) and caught a taxi from the airport to the Taba border...

It looks like I will be at a conference in Jerusalem in mid June and have up to a week free afterwards before I head home. I am thinking of heading across the border down to Dahab. There seem to be a lot of dive centres to choose from, but not many recent recommendation threads here on...

My beloved wife is mostly a holiday diver (60 something dives over 5 years or so). Since OW she has dived Oceanic v8 split fins. Struggling in a little bit of current and desiring to learn to frog kick, she has decided she wants a set of paddle fins. Her idea of diving is to do it in the most...

I'm doing some long range planning and interested in Komodo. I've come across Current Junkies and really like the idea of their approach; small group and make the most of the current, rather than avoid it. The website suggests they do some training at the beginning of the trip, but all the...

I like the bungee straps on my Mares Avanti Quattro + fins but they are starting to crack after only three or so years and I'm not keen on having to replace them regularly. Thinking of putting spring straps on (like my Jets) but looking for recent and definitive advice on which spring straps...