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This was a good read. I am going through a similar course soon, I appreciate knowing what to expect. Thank you for taking the time to write up.

Weekend dives in Saipan. Every weekend. Vis changes some, but always a varying degree of "good". Temp varies from 84 to 81 but always 'warm'. Surface can be rough, but surge underneath is always manageable. Lucky to live here and have $5 fills.

I can reach mine pretty easily on my bottom cam band. Click n release, pull out, and ditch.

After a week of storms, got in yesterday afternoon in Lau Lau Bay off Saipan. Water was more murky than norm due to rain wash, but on the way back in, came upon a pair of octopus doing the mating dance, got some good footage of them, a few turtles. Always worth it just to get out in it.

I'm digging the thread, and the information it brought forth. Don't feel bad for others reactions, you can only control your reactions. I'm grateful for you bringing this info up, thanks!

This contained a ton of information to a novice diver and non ccr diver like myself. Thank you to the spouse for sharing this information and thank you to you divers for having a civil discussion and bringing up so many good points.

The tourist sub that goes through Saipan harbor is loud as hell. Clicks, whines, banging, you know it's there.

Family involved in this just came up as a rando for me via FB. Emotional to say the least. Lots of mixed feelings about being able to do what you love but then there is a family without this presence now. Be careful while you're out there, if not for you, for someone else.

1. There are several dive ops with boats on Saipan. Most are pointed toward Korean or Chinese tourists. I would recommend Axe Murderer Tours out of Saipan for a dive service. They can set up boats and do most anything that you want. Lots of experience. 2. There are several hotels on the island...

That seems exactly right! Thanks. I Googled for it, but not deep enough.

Exploring more of the sites around Saipan. In the harbor there is so much to see and explore. Between Eagle Rays, sharks, wrecks, and normal tropical kine stuff, it's been great. Been here about a 15 months now and started diving about a year ago. Two dives at least every weekend. As simple as...

Saipan is having growing pains with these same issues as well. Not to take away from the informative and thoughtful trip report.

This is so spot on! Great reply. I am brand new to diving. Less than a year and 50 dives in. I know nothing of what I should. But! I can read, I can educate myself, I can read these boards for opinions and I can analyze. Now I'm in Saipan, so it's somewhat different, but I tried to find gear...

These are great lessons. The candidness is much appreciated. Thank you for sharing.

I have the set up of the TG-5 with Olympus PT 58 housing. Inon tray with Single arm and an Inon S2000 strobe. I built it up here recently. Fits easily in my back-pack, feels robust, and easy to use. I do appreciate that I went out with just the camera snorkeling a few times for familiarity...

I had my first outing with camera this weekend. I have one arm, but compact housing similar to yours. I liked stringing in between both shoulder straps on the front my BP/W. That way I had some redundancy on straps and it kept it up out of the way better. I used a eyebolt on one side and then...

Thanks all, I went ahead and ordered the cable as well. Seemed like the proper way to go.

Didn't even see this thread when doing research for my 1st reg set, but just backs up that I made the right choice to go with Deep 6. Dove the regs a few times and admittedly, I have no depth of experience to speak on a good reg or a bad reg, but I'm fully happy with the product. The initial...

Thank you both. That's good insight about burning up the board. Thanks.

Sure, I read through them tonight. But, I just was looking for some practical experience with the two. I ordered the strobe set up, but not the optical cord. So, I was feeling out if I could make do w/o it for right now, or if I need up giddity up go and order a cord to go along with it.