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Warning: long post - grab a coffee :-) I bought a Sherwood Wisdom dive computer last year, and never got to use it until last week when I vacationed in Florida. I read the manual and thought I understood it until I actually got into the water! The number one thing that I don't understand...

Ok.. watch out.. newbie question coming: "What is DIR?" Secondly, why are BCDs all made in black? I mean, the seem to make every other piece of scuba equipment is various colours, but all the BCDs I have ever seen are plain old black!

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Hi neighbour! The dive shop we use (Scuba2000) usually organizes a trip to Coz each January. We did not go last year because we were too new to the sport, but are thinking about it maybe this January. I hear there is only drift diving there, and we have had very little drift diving, so we...

Well, I have not been diving long, but last year we went to the Keys and the dive shop specifically asked to see our dive log to see what our experience level was. What do you do with your excel sheet? Is it acceptable by all dive shops? Do you not need to have a buddy or someone else verify...

$525 US is about $733 CDN at today's conversions rates. Add to that the taxes and brokerage fees we would need to pay to import it from the US and I am looking very close to $850 Cdn. ( if not more). My shop has offered to take in my current guages as a trade in for the new one, so that...

Thanks for the reply. Actually, I just got back from my dive shop, where they were hosting an open house with various dealers on site. I spoke to the shop owner about a computer, and without hesitation, he recommended the Sherwood Wisdom. Said it was by far one of the best on the market. He...

This has probably been asked a number of times, but there are so many posts here it would take me forever to read them all, so if you have been around a while and the asnwer is alread here, please point me to the appropriate post(s). I am a newbie diver, with about 20 dives to date, all in...

I haven't done a lot of diving.. yet, but what I have done has been in the Caribbean off a dive boat. We just got back from a weeks diving off Grand Bahama Island. Take a Triptone if you get seasick.. I take one everytime I get on the boat.. weak stomach! We had pretty heavy swells.. at...

Once again, I thank all that took the time to reply, although it did at times move off into meta discussions. I am going to go back to the dive shop that trained me and get their perspective. I am also going to pop over to the equipment forum on this board to get some suggestions on...

Takes me back to my old DOS days, when DIR was a command to list the Directory. What it means in diving, I have no idea! :wink:

Interesting article about lobster divers on the Moskito coast.. check out their no-decompression dives and the results! http://www.sonic.net/~rocky/Moskito%202003/Moskito2003Situation.htm

Would you consider adding a section somewhere on this site with a list of diving abbreviations and acronyms? As a newbie to the sport, and after reading a number of posts here on this board, I find I am really getting lost and confused with all the abbreviations and acronyms being thrown...

Thank you for the replies.. albeit, they are still a bit confusing. Once again, different people are giving me different definitions of bottom time. sigh. No, I do not have a computer.. that is why I was trying to figure out how to use the tables to log this dive. Yes, I probably should...

I am a new diver, and all of my dives to date have been off a dive boat in the Caribbean/Florida. For the most part, they have been with certified PADI instructors/divemasters. However, this last dive trip I went with a group that was SDI/TDI certified. We explained that we were newbies, with...

Keep getting a request to make my first post here, so here goes: My wife and I are relatively new divers.. we got our PADI OW certification about 2 years ago. We did our classroom and pool training at the local dive shop (Scuba 2000) just north of Toronto. They typically do their open water...