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Hello, Time for my regulator to be checked out after year one and about 50 dives. Is it important to have a basic working knowledge of what goes on during a tune up? I'm not sure what I'd be hoping to learn or what I should look for, but it also seems like I'm trusting the dude to not forget...

Yes the wreck was great. We had it to ourselves. We also hit a pocket of eagle rays, about 20..maybe 30 that hung out the whole dive about 10 or 20 feet above us. They seemed to handle the current just fine..:) And yes the safety stop was interesting. Without the line we might have made it...

I was there last April. Cabo Pulmo and Gordo Banks were the destinations of choice....but it's the off season for that area and they didn't run those trips that time of year. So we dove the dozen or so sites near Cabo. The good news is almost no boat trip. The bad new is no reef to speak...

I warm up with Lowry before I even hit the water...then it's Toynbee. Valsalva has never worked for me. The downside of Toynbee is it can trap gas for me and make me queezy....usually burping it off upon surfacing. I'm getting better with frenzel it works some times. My ears seem to be...

Nope...but I had to tighten up my mask a notch....and my snorkel was a pain twisting everywhere ---------- Post added March 9th, 2015 at 08:34 PM ---------- Thanks everyone. Good stuff for next time. Gotta get me some gloves. Being a warm water diver never had much use for them. I was...

Hello...just got back from Isla Mujeres. I can say the diving wasn't great, but it allowed time to get wet and practice. However, I did get the chance to do a wreck dive off Cancun. The current was very strong compared to what I am used to. I've dove a bunch in Cozumel, but most of that is...

Travel like a local, use the collectivos. Taxis are reliable too....just much more expensive

I'm with you Mike. Did the Barbie line and another at Dos Ojos last year. At least I can check it off my list cause I won't do it again. To dark and enclosed for me with no visual payback. Once I've seen one stalactite, you've seen them all. I really didn't get the attraction...a bunch of...

We stay in that area often, including Puerto Aventuras. We have never needed a car. The collectivo system that runs up and down the hwy is efficient and cheap. We've had no issues traveling back and forth from Playa to Tulum and everywhere in between. The exception to that is if we were out...

Can anyone speak to the complications or considerations that being on medication can have with dive ops, insurance, waivers, etc. My doc has now put me on blood pressure meds. He says it won't impact my diving...at least physically. When signing the dive shop waivers I've never had to check...

Here's a budget deal.... Casa Mexicana, February 20 thru Mar 10.....air and 9 nights $896. Not AI, but in town and close to everything. Free breakfast buffet everyday. Then "Dive with Martin" 5 days x2 tanks, $305. Now you're only into it for $1200... 800 bucks under budget for food, beer...

Hello, not sure about utila, but I can speak to Coz. Great diving as I'm sure you know. Package prices from Seattle are running about $1200 for 10 days all inclusive, or 850 flight and hotel non inclusive. Dive ops have multi day packages...check around. We love Coz and spend about a month...

I think they call it both "5 caves" and "5 graves" right next to McKenna landing . Super easy dive..usually. Lots of turtles and one time a bunch of mana rays, and some neat little caves to crawl around in.

I post this in the hopes it helps someone new. This happened a while ago and I am still embarrassed by it today. We were shore diving in Hawaii. A site I had dove multiple times before with a DM. My buddy had not dove there before, and he was a less experienced diver than me. I think I...

This is a problem I have had to manage since I began diving. I can not clear my ears in the normal pinch and blow method. Other technics are only partly effective. One of the only ways I was able to always get cleared was to swallow. Course with that comes the trapped air, sometimes...

Thank you everybody....lots of good experience talking. I haven't been anywhere that has turned me away....yet. But from what I'm reading here, some will eventually, so I guess I'll spend the 3 or 4 hunny and get it done. I know I'll pick up some nugget of info or technic that will help me get...

Hello all, Been diving since about 2009 but have gotten more serious the last couple of years logging about 30+ dives a year for 2013/14 and closing in on the 100 dive total. All my diving is done on vacations and at this point don't see that changing anytime soon or at all. So far I've been...

New to the site. Did my first discover dive around 2009. Took the discover class every time I went to Cozumel...no too smart I guess. Never thought I'd dive enough to warrant getting certified, but i just kept going so I took the next step. I had 20 or so dives and 3 discover pool sessions...

It was a shore dive off Maui...the 5 graves site. Nothing spectacular about the site itself, shallow, maybe 30-40 feet, small reef growth, but tons of big turtles and great visibility. About 15 minutes in we were treated to a mana ray show. 5 rays buzzed the 3 of us for half an hour. They...