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I don't know about cheap, but the local distributors are: Marvid International 67 Ubi Crescent, #01-06 +65 68424332 sales@marvid.com.sg www.marvid.com.sg And a known parallel importer is: SngArms 5 Terengganu St +65 62233966 enquiry@sngarms.com.sg You can also try some dive gear...

Hi Lonely Boy, Fortunately, I've never yet had a need to claim on DEPP insurance, and I'm absolutely hoping I never have to. I'm sure others on this board have though, perhaps you could try the archives? Most reports that I've read have been very positive, although having said that they're...

I'd hazard a guess that after you've made your changes, instead of writing over the .jpg, you're saving it to a file format called .psd, or "Photoshop Document". I'll bet if you checked the directory your pics are in you'll find "filename.psd" there. This is the file type that is used by the...

I'm based in Singapore and have had absolutely no problems getting insured by DEPP (don't know about H20). Did you manage to talk to them about it, or were you basing that on what was said on their website? If you need to, call them at the number listed on their website or email them at...

DiverBuoy, Allow me just to make some comments on this debate. It seems that the charge being levelled here is not so much about whether standards are being followed as whether these standards are at all sensible, practiceable, realistic, or adequate. Just because PADI says so doesn't mean...

Umm about the dive mag, I'll reply in private, keep the spam off the boards :) As far as printers go, any one that advertises itself as a photo-quality printer is probably good enough for our purposes; you don't really need actual photo printers. This is normally at the mid to high end of the...

Alrighty, working with a dive magazine, I can tell you that 4 megapixels and up is good enough for us to publish and at this resolution it's hard to discern between slide scans and digital pics. This doesn't apply to full-page or cover pics, of course, when you'll start to note the slight...

You're right, the Olympus C-7x0 series doesn't have OEM housings available for them. You have to consider what you're looking for in a camera - for me, I looked at which ones had cheap(ish) housings in the market and I chose from amongst that shortened list. It makes no sense to get a housing...

Just worth noting that it's smack in the middle of the monsoon season in Koh Tao and Koh Samui in January. Even though it's in the same body of water as Pattaya, the later is sheltered from this monsoon by the eastern land mass, whereas the others face the open seas... and when it rains there...

PSI stands for pressure (per) square inch. Similarly, BAR is a measure for the pressure of your air working against the walls of your tank and your first stage, hence the reading on your SPG - standardised pressure gauge. The point I'm getting to here is that it measures relative pressure...

This always confuses new Suunto users, for good reason. I used to wonder if they were trying to make comments about my gas mixes or telling me that I was so close to the deco limit that I needed O2 fast. Eventually smarter people told me that it was the year indicator - ie, the dive in the log...

Just let it all out, man... Have fun, man I love the rush that comes with getting new gear, the new-stuff smell, getting all the straps and knick-knacks adjusted, figgering out what works best... hmm, time to go out and buy something meself! ;)

Thanks for the suggestions guys... Actually that's interesting, I would've thunk that seatbelt material would be really sturdy, given that they're meant to hold in place in a high-speed car accident. If as suggested they're not really abrasion resistant and fray easily then it really won't be...

Was in Tulamben at the start of December, got there in the middle of the flooding. There is a lot of silt on the sandy portions at the rivermouth, but is not really a factor at the dropoff. However as Erwin said vis was terrible. The worst hit site would be the drop-off, which was barely...

My AL b/p is corroding so I'm getting a new b/p in, hence I'm probably going to be rigging up a new harness for it soon. But although I've had no problems with the chafing and blistered armpits (?!) that some people on this board have when using a b/p setup, I was just wondering about the...

Cheers you two, just got done packing based on your advice. Unfortunately I'm going to both Tulamben and Nusa Penida so I've had to get both a shorty and a 4mm in. Now hope I don't overshoot the airline weight limit. Right... safe diving y'all :)

Hi, I was wondering if anyone out there would happen to know the water temps in Bali right now. Headed out to dive in a couple of days and not too sure how much exposure protection to pack - I've been advised the whole range from 22 to 30 degrees celsius. Anyone have a more precise, definite...

Hi MikeF: as a warm water, no-wetsuit-needed diver, I rarely need to wear any weights, and rarely do we have to put more than 6-10 pounds even on students. So we rarely need to be creative with where we throw the weight on them. However, I'm very curious, should the need arise, where should we...

I'm not in the gear retail aspect of diving so I'm not sure what the mark-up is, but it may be neither the buyer's nor the seller's fault - but rather, the manufacturer. We can safely assume that LDSes sell at much lower bulk than on-line retailers (not just because of pricing but also...