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I use Firefox, Ad Blocker, on Win 10 and occasionally SB will crash on me. But it never did it before "upgrading" from Win 8 to Win 10 (thank you MS for the automatic, no-questions asked update that I declined for months and months) so I can rule out FF & AB as being a problem. Win 10 on a...

If you've never lost a GoPro chances are you've never owned one. I've lost mine, found it, flooded it, dried it, lost a filter, and someone else found it for me. I think I just answered my question about why my wife won't let me get the new 5.

Why yes. I was about 12 living in Germany. The swim club had a 10m platform. Olympic class divers have to practice somewhere I guess. Anyhow at 10m the large pool looks more like a postage stamp which you swear you're going to miss. I dove off it a few times. After a bad entry (painful!) I...

Cage diving with white sharks is a relative term. I'd like to be in a cage and share the water with the shark. I do not wish to share the cage with the shark. Call me selfish. But wow! What awesome footage.

I've used those folks 4 or 5 times for various dive trips. Nice group of people. I haven't taken dive training classes from them but they do have a good reputation.

My family stayed at the Punta Cana Tropical-Caribe 2 years ago. When we got there we upped ourselves (negotiated) to The Level (told them my son was 18, he was close enough for the adults-only section, lol). Really awesome experience. Very relaxed environment. I will say that Bavaro Beach is...

Since they cost next to nothing ($2-7), weigh less than a chicklet (the gum), and readily snap anywhere a caribiner ring fits I prefer to have one. If I never think about using it, well great, things must have gone off well or really, really poorly. I also do a lot of kayaking and keep...

Yep, gotta stay away from the raisin bran on dive days. But you gotta admit that it's one really weird feeling to have a fart trickle up your back and past your neck during a dive.

Some manufacturers make sizing for "regular", whatever that is, "short", and "tall". I'd look for one that makes "short". Henderson for one makes short sizes for folks that aren't as tall as the scales imply they might be. I love their Thermaxx suits. They're really stretchy which makes them...

Isn't that half the 'fun' of these opinion/personal preference questions? You get pages upon pages of responses about what each different person would do which of course isn't necessarily relevant to what the OP will do. It'd be more efficient for an OP to setup a poll rather than an...

Lake Jocassee in early May is about 52F at 80-90ft so I'll forgive you for not wanting to go deep in January. Blue Grotto in Williston, FL (literally on the other side of the highway from Devils Den) might work. It has a 100ft bottom but it's not a direct-up ascent to the surface. It's...

Your rednecks are more wasteful than mine, lol. Another boat/dive club found a pool-side lounge chair which would have completed your set nicely. Funny thing for someone to put on a boat - a 6-ft long, non-folding lounge chair and then lose it overboard. Maybe Bud needs to change their label...

I found mostly redneck paraphernalia. A bunch of cans -mostly formerly filled with Budweiser variants (those Bud-Wei-Ser frogs would be ashamed!), yards and yards of fishing line, a wife-beater tee-shirt, jumbo sized cigarette lighter, a small rubber duckie, and a small stainless steel...

Now that's funny! Not mentioned though is that it's your spit, your pee, your buggers, etc. so it's not that bad, lol. If the DM goes around and spitting in everybody's mask and you swapped wetsuits with the diver on your left and regs with the diver on your right during the SI then hell yeah...

If you want some easy confidence building dives head up north a bit to visit Ginnie Springs, Blue Grotto, Devil's Den, and the Rainbow River. All fun and easy. On weekends it's easy enough to pick up a buddy at the first three. Rainbow River needs a boat of some sort to take you up river a...

That perfectly describes my wish list and current dive plans.

That is a more direct way of saying it. I always look at it of trying to be the person I tell my kids they need to be.

No problem at all. On rare occasion things actually are as simple as they're supposed to be :) Aqua Lung also says it's paired for life so you shouldn't need to re-pair them.

I'll admit it doesn't feel like 5mm thickness and if I could find my micrometer I'd measure to satisfy curiosity. I guess the question would be is a wetsuit rated to approximately the equivalent of x-mm thickness of standard neoprene? My daughters 5mm (happened to be closest) is approximately...

Isn't it just the simple "coin slot" cover with an o-ring?