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  1. DaddyJr

    Query about the Junior Open Water Diver Exam

    I suppose that I should let you guys know what happened. She attempted the theory exams late last year, she failed the first time round and was in tears. But she went back in a week later with some extra revision and passed. On both occasions she could have asked the instructors for...
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    Diving in Cyprus

    How are the water temperatures in Cyprus in July? Hot? Do people dive with just a skin suit?
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    Zenobia

    I'm heading to Cyprus next week and the dive centre I'm in contact with has offered 2 dives to Zenobia. I am not trained to penetrate closed spaces. Is it worth going there if I only stay outside of the ship?
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    Warm Clothes under the Dry Suit

    That was another issue that cropped up actually, having never used gloves as thick as 5mm before, I found it difficult to manipulate any equipment. The vast majority of the time, I couldn't tell what I was holding unless I was also looking at it.
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    Warm Clothes under the Dry Suit

    I used 5 finger 4th element wet suit gloves, which were what was recommended to me.
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    Warm Clothes under the Dry Suit

    Thank you everyone for your comments and suggestions! I suppose I owe it to you to let you know how things transpired. The dive instructor thought the the Sharkskin chillproof wet suit was good enough to replace the undergarments, but as a precaution, we also took the undergarments with us to...
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    Warm Clothes under the Dry Suit

    I contacted the dive centre and they said they would provide an undersuit, but that I should still bring in some base layer thermals and thick socks. They said that I could also use the Sharkskin wetsuit, but that they would prefer that I discuss that with my instructor.
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    Warm Clothes under the Dry Suit

    Hello all! Thanks for all of the comments, haven't been checking this site regularly. I'll be doing the PADI Dry Suit Specialty with the London School of Diving in mid-March and they said that we'll be going to Wraysbury Lake. They didn't say that they wouldn't provide any undergarments, they...
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    Warm Clothes under the Dry Suit

    Hello Everyone! I will be doing the PADI Dry Suit Specialty in the UK next month and I was advised to bring "warm clothes", to be worn under the dry suit (so going in naked under the suit is not recommended then?). Anyways, just want some recommendations/tips on what to wear. Can I just wear a...
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    Query about the Junior Open Water Diver Exam

    Thank you all for the input. I contacted a dive centre with which she has done a few bublemakers sessions with, and they said they would explain/clarify the questions. She will likely attempt the PADI OWD course sometime in November.
  11. DaddyJr

    Query about the Junior Open Water Diver Exam

    So my daughter has turned 10 and wants to do the PADI Open Water Diver Course. For the past few months we have been going over the manual and video. All is good except that when I let her attempt the questions in the manual, she often doesn't understand the "big" words and consequently, she...
  12. DaddyJr

    Favorite Log Book

    Going to give Subsurface a try. My sister had all of her info wiped out of Scubaearth.com after we did the PADI Rescue Diver Course with a dive centre who misspelled her name in the info they gave PADI. They associated the wrongly spelt name with my sister's scubaearth email address. It is as if...
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    Your thoughts wanted on getting a ten year old certified.

    Interesting thread and comments. My daughter is 9 and is counting the days to be able to do the OWD course. She has always loved the sea, sea animals and swimming and after I got back into diving earlier this year her interest in diving peaked. I've told her she can do it as soon as she is 10...
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    Solved: Instagram Entry on Profile

    Would be nice if we could provide our instagram usernames on the Profile/Personal Details page. Facebook, twitter and linkedin are already present (myspace too?). Sometimes you just want to see the dive pictures that other people post.
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    If you had time to go to only 1 Dive Shop in Singapore

    Hey Guys, thanks for your messages but I only just saw them now! In any event, I did manage to check out 4 dive shops whilst I was in Singapore, and in the end I bought some new gear from Waikiki, which seems very well stocked. Will definitely recommend Waikiki and will go there again next time...
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    If you had time to go to only 1 Dive Shop in Singapore

    I might be going to Singapore shortly but only for a few days but even then, I might only have a few hours to spare to get some dive gear. I'm looking into getting a wet suit, some underwater camera accessories (for my Sealife DC2000), maybe a dry bag and perhaps a dive computer. I saw the...
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    PADI - What have you done to ScubaEarth Dive Log locations?

    I just recently started logging my dives on scubaearth.com. If you could go with another online logbook, which one would you go for and why?
  18. DaddyJr

    Cons of Colour Screen Dive Computers?

    Hello everyone, thanks for all the comments. In the end I went for the colour screen option, so I just purchased the Suunto Eon Core. Perhaps due to a Canon camera of mine being destroyed by water seeping in, this played heavily on my mind against dive computers which allow occasional exposure...
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    Maldives vs Seychelles Diving?

    Since I dived only at the sites of 1 Maldives Resort, I can only comment on those sites (southern isles of Maldives near Dhaalu Atoll), the fish schools were not particularly large, maybe the largest school I saw had some 50 to 100 fish. But turtles were common, also reef sharks and eels. Didn't...
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    Cons of Colour Screen Dive Computers?

    So I'm going to pull the trigger on a dive computer and have narrowed down my choices to either the Suunto Eon Core or the Mares Matrix. I like the Eon Core's simple and configurable screen layout. I like the functionality and screen layout of the Matrix (one of the few smaller dive computers...
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