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I have just come back from a diving holiday with a friend of mine, whose husband had asked her "to stay below 30 metres" on all her dives. When she informed me and the DM about it, we asked if he maybe wanted to get rid of her or something. She hadn't noticed the ambiguity, although she is the...

Don't know about Tanzania mainland, but the authorities in Zanzibar are quite strict on foreigners working there on tourist visas, so I don't think you will find any reputable shop that it willing to risk being heavily fined for employing you without work permit. The work permit is quite easy to...

I guess it's too late now, but in case you have postponed your trip for some reason, here are my recommendations: One Ocean in Stonetown and ScubaDo in Kendwa (north-west). They run trips to Mnemba Atoll, but with only a couple of days you would want to be lucky for one to coincide with your...

Which price range (hotels) are you looking for? Town or beach?

I would go for the Nesima for location as it is in town. I personally don't like those resorts in the middle of nowhere which - sadly - have begun to spread quite a bit north and south of Dahab.

June is not the best time for diving Znz or Pemba (currents, wind, visibility), but not the worst either. I have dived Zanzibar year round, and there have always been some excellent dives, some average dives and some rather boring dives, no matter which time of year. The best diving in Zanzibar...

I don't know tha prices for diving in Kenya, but in Zanzibar and Pemba it's more like $50 per dive (if you only do one or two, it gets a bit cheaper if you do more dives). Transport, especially flying, isn't cheap, either, but you should be able to get a flight from Mombasa to ZNZ for less than...

What I find more interesting is that he only donated it after checking the diver's SPG, whacking it and thus establishing that the diver really WAS out of air. I think if a diver gave me the OOA signal, even if they seemed very calm and we were at safety stop depth, I would make sure that they...

When I "practise" equalising on land, sometimes both ears stay "popped" until I move my jaw or swallow, sometimes only one does, sometimes both pop back without any help. So based on that and on the fact that I have no troubles equalising while diving, I think you'll be just fine. Regarding...

Sorry, I didn't mean to question that her migraine may have been the cause of her losing consciousness etc. It it is the sudden sinking (and the missing mask) that I find odd and would like to hear more about. This was at the surface, before the dive even started, and they had just done a weight...

So what did the "third-hand information and speculation" tell you about what actually happened? Ok, she wasn't feeling well, so she may have passed out on the swim back, but that doesn't normally cause someone who is positive at the surface to suddenly sink. And the calm manner in which she...

That's not quite right, you have forgotten the 5 speciality courses, each involving 2-4 (I think) dives, which is something different from the 5 "adventure dives" of the AOW course.

Abu Helal crowded? That's news. When I dived it a few years ago (2002 or 2003) hardly anyone ever went there.

Well, there must be something, or we wouldn't have been turned away at the checkpoint. When I first enquired about the possibility of doing the Canyon at night (as I also did it a couple of years ago and really liked it), our dive guide informed me that it wasn't allowed anymore, but that it was...

Apparently, night diving at the Canyon, Blue Hole or any of the southern sites (essentially all the Dahab sites north and south of the police check-points) is not allowed anymore. We got turned away just before 5 pm at the northern check point - I guess with all the gear and tanks on the pick-up...

I'm a she! So if I suddenly found myself in a tight blue speedo with anything dangling from it in any dream I would be even more worried.

Wet it certainly was. I think with that wetsuit I wouldn't have needed a glow stick even on the darkest of night dives.

Yeah, I know. I wasn't really looking for in depth analysis or anything, more like some funny interpretations. Just happened to wake up to that dream with my computer on, scubaboard open and nothing better to do ;)

Not really. I may have read from people having a fear of someone messing with their equipment on here a little too often, but I've never been worried by that. Nor am I worried about sinking, after all, that's what I want to do at the beginning of a dive :) In the dream I wasn't frightened at...

Just woke up from an afternoon nap after spending most of last night getting back from in Egypt and had the following little dream: I dropped off the boat (back-roll) with my gear on and sank like a stone. Was no big deal, it was shallow and I kicked myself up easily. Was very confused though...