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We are in the process of booking an RA liveaboard and want to extend our stay with a stay at Lembeh. For the experienced long-distance travelers, would it make more sense to do Lembeh before or after RA?

Are there any diveboats in the greater FLL area that are "green"?....as in NO spear guns.

WOW!!! No other way to describe it. I know there are two ways to do the Wild Side, Larry's and a shore dive. I went the shore dive route with Bart from Wannadive, others went with Larry. They say this is an "expert" dive. What they are really looking for is good air consumption so that...

Just got back from a great week in Bonaire. I was very concerned about the conditions after Omar did his dance on the island. The good news is things are just fine. Yes, there is some sanding, but for the most part the corals have cleaned themselves and the sponges are generally clean except...

Boy, I can't say enough about this great sub-$300 computer. My one gripe is that once you are in the log setting, it seems you have to go through all your dives (40 hours worth) before you have a chance to exit and get back to another screen...unless you do nothing and wait 1.5 minutes. I...

Billed as "swimming" with the whale sharks....don't kid yourself. It's more like sprinting with the whale sharks. The Mrs. and I had no big problems keeping up, but for those who weren't in the best of condition, or didn't have decent equipment (snorkeling only), they got one pass and were...

Okay, time for a better camera. But, I'm really not interested in pictures. I prefer taking video underwater. Don't want a big video camera. I liked my Sea and Sea 750 just fine, but it's time to upgrade. The S&S ran at 24 fps in video mode. The "cheaper" cameras I've researched seem to...

...might have crossed paths with a big (300+ lb) Goliath Grouper at a very popular dive site. This grouper is now in real trouble because some a-hole speared it. I know the locals would LOVE to get their hands on the jerk that did it. The spearing was first reported about 10 days ago...

Probably best known in diving for his cave diving exploits in Florida (Chris was a member of the Woodville Karst Plain Project (WKPP) team that explored, mapped and set a number of diving and distance records in the underwater caves of Florida), Chris passed away from brain cancer. He was just...

Certainly not the best video, for those who have not been to the graveyard at Lake Jocassee, this will give you a glimpse of what it is like down there. If you don't know the history, this is the graveyard in the scene in the beginning of the movie Deliverance. All bodies and most of the...

I know there is an older thread talking about this relatively new dive site. I just had the pleasure of doing some training dives there. I can't speak for the site as far a "fun" goes, but boy, what a GREAT training site. Anyone who hasn't visited there should give it some serious...

As I study my DM book and read over and over again the importance of using duty of care, I can't help think about an incident I witnessed not long ago when I was just a diver. A diver aboard a liveaboard had an air-integrated computer. All good except the transducer wasn't working so he...

My wife and I are heading back to Venice for a series of dives on April 8 and 9. We did out 5th and 6th dives after OW cert there and were pretty much overwhelmed with the dives. We didn't have corrective lens for our masks then, so we had a hard time seeing what was there. We did come back...

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A while back I posted a thread about my experience with Diveassure insurance, and in particular, AIG. http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=170339&highlight=del_mo This week I received two signed letters from AIG saying that they made a mistake in reimbursing me for our hurricane...

Ever hear a Goliath Grouper boom? Ever see what the grouper does to make the sound. At the 1:06 mark, the grouper booms. You'll need more than a laptop to hear it, but if you look closely, there is a large dark area of the body just behind pectoral fins that will compress with vigor! Kinda...

Back in August, my wife and I had our S/V Juliet liveaboard trip cut short due to some silly hurricane. We used 2 1/2 days of "trip" out of 6. Another way of figuring our damages is we had 1 1/2 days of diving out of 4 1/2. The trip cost $1300 per person (including departure taxes). I...

I do a lot of boat dives and I don't know when I last saw anyone else give the okay sign either when entering the water or after ascending back to the top. Am I the only one who does it?

I guess I missed the newbreak, but having just gone through airport security, they now allow liquids in carryon luggage. The bottles/tubes are limited in size to 3 oz, and MUST be packed in quart size or smaller clear ziplock baggie. No limit in quantity, just bag size. If you can fit 'em...