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Since I will have less time to dive in the next months/years I am selling my Aquatica Nikon D800 housing with Ikelite DS-160 substrobes, arms and a 9,25" Megadome glass dome. (all prices in $ US) Bought: April 2013 Number of dives: 10 Photos of the items here. 1x Aquatica D800 housing...

since there are so many ways to do underwater photography and everyone tries to do it right i just wrote an article about proper diving with a camera and what the most common challenges and issues are. let me know your feedback. thanks thom

Since with my last camera my shots were always a bit too bright (Nikon D90 with Ikelite housing and integrated TTL converter and 2x Ikelite DS-160 substrobes) I want to avoid these problems with the new setup. The new setup includes: - Nikon D800 - Aquatica AD800 housing - 2x Ikelite DS-160...

How many times have you experienced it yourself? You walk into a dive shop and you know you will be treated the way you want. But suddenly you realise that something changed. Staff isn't the same or something else feels weird. I tried to write it down in two articles I just published on the...

hey there! i just put some new articles on my website. one of them is about mental training by diving. feel free to comment, share, like and of course give feedback. thanks thom

since i just finished writing an article about mystery diving to find out the weak spots in a diving operation i am very much interested in your opinion if this could be a way to increase customer satisfaction and push quality standards of a dive shop/liveaboard operation. thanks in advance thom

Since I will switch from my D90 to a D800 this equipment is no longer needed. I bought it all in late 2010 and did about 40 dives with this setup. The housing comes with extra O-rings. All functionalities of the housing are perfectly fine. Find some shots of the housing here. To see the results...

all you shop owner and business men out there! what do you think about the real need for loosely defined processes in a diving operation such as a dive shop or a liveaboard operator? i just put together some thoughts about this topic. feel free to read and get back. thanks thom

hey guys since i have seen quite a few logbooks over the past few years and none of them really fit me i decided to do my own. check the latest article about this logbook template and find the link to the PDF download in there, too. please let me know what you think about the template and feel...

sice we just started a new website on quality-diving.com we are trying to build up a more complete overview of diving holiday destinations with recommendations. therefore i want to know: what are important factors for you when you choose your diving holiday destination. maybe you are only diving...

hi there lately i heard a few guys talking about "let's open a dive shop!". this made me think of what you have to arrange before this can actually a successful mission. since my friends will not have been the last people to have this thought i wrote an article about planning to launch a...

Hi everyone I imagine most of you already know what I am talking about. Still there might be some guys out there wondering how it feels to glide through the oceans with a closed circuit rebreather almost unnoticed by the animals surrounding you. The CCR training was again one step closer to...

Hey there May not be the right place to post this but since I am so excited about just having become a trimix diver I had to share this somewhere. I figured people in here could most likely understand what I am talking about. This is why I wrote a little article about my experience I had doing...

hello everyone! just got back from a trip to the Maldives and it was fantastic! a lot of reef sharks, some mantas, dolphins the whole day (on the surface or diving) and a lot of fun on an excellent boat! after one dive i apparently forgot to switch of one of my Ikelite DS-160 substrobes so the...

hello everyone after switching from my Canon G10 to my DSLR (Nikon D90) I figured it would be good to have a second substrobe (1x6" at the moment). at the moment i have an ikelite ds160 substrobe. - what would you recommend as arms and strobe if the goal would be wideangle photography and...

Since I will most likely focus on my DSLR underwater(with which I also do HD video) my Canon Vixia HF S100 HD camera is for sale. The camera is good for beginners/advanced beginners since you get to choose a lot of settings by yourself and the focus-adjustment-time is very fast and...

After buying a housingfor my DSLR and using it for underwater photography I don't need my equipment for the Canon G10 anymore. The camera is said to be an alternative to DSLR-photography underwater since you have a lot of settings you can change by yourself. You also have a specific...

hello everyone! since i'll be trying my camera next week the first time underwater i wanted to know what the recommendations for dslr are. when do you do the whitebalance? do you shoot all in manual mode or sometimes in auto? would it make sense to fix the apperture and the shutter speed...

hey divers out there! since i've been starting my new website about diving an photography since february i wanted to ask you for things you would like to read articles about in the style i did it with the rough conditions or how you choose your dive-trip destionation. since all the ideas i come...

Since this question has brought up quite a bit attention in the whole forum I decided to write an article on how I choose my diving destinations and which factors are important to me when I plan them. You can find the article on my website. It includes also a few spots I have personally already...