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    Question 6 hours in jakarta

    Keep in mind: - (Assuming you arrive to Indonesia from abroad at 1pm) clearing immigration, picking up your luggage and clearing customs etc can easily take more than 1 hour. - commuting to and from the city center to the airport can easily take another 2 hours (or more) each way depending on...
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    My dive computer is too conservative, what can I do ?

    Welcome to ScubaBoard @Ben0102. If your target is longer NDL times, then I have the perfect solution for you: dive with NO dive computer and stay underwater as long as you can.... Problem solved (?) Now seriously. The road trying to get 1-2-3-5-10 minutes extra NDL is VERY slippery. We need...
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    Komodo LoB in August - why so low occupancy?

    Thanks for the input. Of course I know this (who doesn't?). But I also know the (limited) budget I have. As I said above, I am going to Indonesia (Jakarta to be more precise) almost every year - for few weeks at a time to visit family. During that time, I usually take about a week off for...
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    Why Surface with 500 PSI?

    @rsingler great reminder of this thread. It's been "only" 3 years and I've totally forgotten all these. Not the concept of rock bottom itself, but that you've developed this tool doing all the boring maths for us. Thanks to remind us...
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    Komodo LoB in August - why so low occupancy?

    Thanks for the info. Was it really that bad? I contacted liveaboard.com asking about canceled trip due to low occupancy and they said their policy is that if the LoB operator cancels a trip, it is the operator's responsibility to rebook the client(s) to a similar or better LoB and if that is...
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    Fly Into Jakarta Or Bali For Raja Ampat Trips?

    Last time I looked (January 2023) for a friend flying from Bali to Sorong was a pain as you had to transit through Makassar and timing was odd. I have no idea if connections have now improved, but Jakarta to Sorong non-stop (eg by Garuda) should still be preferable.
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    Komodo LoB in August - why so low occupancy?

    I will be going to Indonesia/Jakarta this summer (around 20th of July to ~20th of August) and I can get a week or so off for diving, probably towards the end of my stay (I have to be in Jakarta on the 4th of August and obviously I need to be back on time to catch my return flight home). I have...
  8. stepfen

    Scubapro C370 service manual?

    You are welcome @garywong007 . I didn't find the procedure itself difficult at all. What is difficult I think is how to describe it in words. Hence, I illustrated it with a video. Glad you fount it useful.
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    Moving to Crete, Greece…diving suggestions?

    That's another point. Usually there are so many things to do, see and eat topside here, that for people with limited time, diving becomes low priority (and to be honest rightfully so). I'll be happy to meet/dive with you in April. Let me know...
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    About to buy first regulator set - DIN or yoke?

    If @Dan with all his traveling can live with DIN, everybody can :) DIN for me (with no adapter) and I've been diving in 3 continents so far (Europe, Africa, Asia). Never had a problem. Only once while changing tanks in a busy dive boat (somewhere in Indonesia) the crew grabbed an odd tank...
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    Moving to Crete, Greece…diving suggestions?

    Welcome @VirgKipik The only open dive store I am aware of at the moment in the western part of the island is Chania Diving Center ( chaniadiving.gr ). All other stores are open for the tourist season only (from April to October more or less). Nikos (the owner of Chania Diving) is busy doing...
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    Does anyone know the proper way to clean/service the Fourth Element Drysuit Inflator hose

    Yeap. That's the difficult to get to o-ring I was talking about. It is so well hidden that most divers just ignore it... Unless you dive a lot, it might last for the life of the hose... For the divers who care and/or dive a lot, there are ways to remove and replace it as discussed eg here...
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    Does anyone know the proper way to clean/service the Fourth Element Drysuit Inflator hose

    In addition my Quick Disconnect (BCD and dry suit) love to get some lubrication now and then. I'm talking about the external/moving parts ( metal sleeve, balls, spring). I use general purpose silicon spray, being very careful NOT to spray any inside the hole as there is an o-ring deep inside...
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    Batik Air Reliability?

    On top of everything else, it is one thing to have your flight canceled/postponed and if lucky make it to your destination on time with alternatives and an entirely different thing to get your money back. Especially if/when the tickets were booked through an agent (tiket.com or similar). You...
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    Question Lube for dry gloves

    Yes. The lube that Si Tech includes with their dry gloves is actually Lip balm (with SPF of 15 !!!).
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    Scubapro C370 service manual?

    I opened another thread about this: https://scubaboard.com/community/threads/c370-housing-flow-deflector-assembly.643195/ and included a video showing how I did it: I hope this helps.
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    C370 housing / flow deflector assembly

    I have been reading that people find assembling the housing/poppet/flow deflector/lever etc for the C370 difficult to grasp (eg here Scubapro C370 service manual? ). That was one of the reasons deterring me from servicing my reg earlier (leading to some issues: Rusty C370 sleeve ). Once I did...
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    Rusty C370 sleeve

    As an update, I disassembled a friend's C370 yesterday. This was bought new about 3 years ago, but have had much less dives (around 50 maybe) since then. From the look of it, my friend didn't rinse his regs very well after diving as I fount quite a bit of salt deposit in the case. Also, he...
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    Rusty C370 sleeve

    Thanks Robert. Everything you say makes perfect sense. but also @axxel57 might have a point here. I did a LoB (with steel tanks) at the beginning of December 2023 and I suspect that the tanks were full of rust as just after the LoB I serviced my 1st stage (Mk11) and fount its' interiors...
  20. stepfen

    Scubapro C370 service manual?

    Maybe it was the luck of the noob :) I just stared another thread about an issue I encountered ( Rusty C370 sleeve ). I would appreciate your feedback there. Cheers
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