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StevieD: I have answered your PM. I will help you and your husband in any way I can. There is nothing as far as a text, just my outline and pictures, but taken without the content they don't mean much. I will answer any questions that I can so have your husband send me a PM. The reason...

Don't mix the tables from one organization to another. All of the organizations have Nitrox tables that work well, but they are not the same.

Tonight is the night of the Pole Spear Seminar. Looks like a great turn out. I will have 8 or 9 different types of pole spears there, grouped into 3 different categories. We will also discuss ways to customize your pole spear and how to use pole spears for Blue Water Hunting. Hope to see you...

Tonight is the Pole Spear Seminar at ScubaWorks in Jupiter. It looks like a great turn out and I hope to see some of you there so we can share and compare information about hunting with pole spears.

Hank: Very sorry you are being put in this position. It makes it very tough on you in a number of ways we don't need to discuss here. I often wonder what I will do if they do the same thing in the Bahamas. Stephen

Sorry you won't be able to make it. I occasionally give lectures over then, but have none planned at the moment.

Here in Jupiter, Fl. we have a more challenging diving environment. When people let us know they are new to diving we can accomodate them on some of the boats by teaming them with the DM on the boat or offering them a private DM to dive with them. We also routinely set up some dives to shallower...

Tom: Nothing would please me more than offering a course where nothing is charged by any of the parties involved. However, I can not realistically think that PADI will waive their certification fee and the fee for the training materials or that the dive boat will let people go for free when...

Eric: We have a standard price for the Nitrox course if it taken by itself. If you are going to sign up for the AOW course I am sure we would give you the discounted price which is about 33% less when a student in an OW class takes Nitrox at the same time. If you need to rent equipment, it...

Hank: I am not surprised at all. I think you will see more and more of this in other countries going forward. I am waiting for the Bahamas to do the same thing. Most of the damage is done by the locals and foreign commercial interests, but they need a scapegoat so they will blame the...

I fold Nitrox into my Open Water courses and my students do the last dive on Nitrox. We dive almost exclusively with Nitrox here in Jupiter, Fla.. The only times I do not dive nitrox is: diving with an OW class on their first 3 OW dives or in the pool if it is shallower than about 50 ft. I...

I completely disagree with the last two posts. The AOW class will make you a better diver. If it is done correctly and the right electives are in the class then it will significantly help you to get a better foundation upon which you will practice your skills during all the dives you will be...

Great information guys. It will probably be a little confusing to people for a while now that all the materials are switched around. I do like the new system, though. I already have DM candidates who are takingg the theory part of the DM course online.

Tom: I am the instructor who will be teaching this free course so let me explain. We are not being obtuse and everything is laid out the way it will be. I am donating my time for FREE to teach this class, I will get no money at all. ScubaWorks is donating their facility for FREE so I will...

I have never really understood why people are so ambivolent about the patches. If you earned that level of diver training then why not? It should be a personal preference and not something so influenced by one side or another. I make sure all our instructors display all their instructor...

I am in the "buy one" camp. It completely changed the way you dive so you want to use one on every dive. You will pay for one pretty fast if you are diving on a regular basis and rent one. Also, don't get caught and by a really inexpensive one that might only let you dive on air. Make sure...

Superman: If the University has approved the course it is probably a good one. I have taught diving at universities and if you want to talk about it or ask any questions, send me a private message and I will help you with anything that I can.

Welcome to the board! It just gets better and better from here.

Congratulations on joining us in the diving world. As others have said here, you are in a great position because you seem to have a very good instructor. I encourage divers to use steel tanks because they are either going to have to have weight in their BC's or in their tanks or both. I love...

For the last 2 years I have given pole spear leactures at the Spearfishing Symposium in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. I wanted to get this current information out to as many people as possible so I have combined the two lectures and updated the information. I am going to give the lecutre, for FREE...