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First time I went, there'd been a bunch of storms and I was doing cenotes since you couldn't take dive boats out of the inner harbor at Puerto Morelos. It was sort of whipped up, but not too bad.

Yeah, definitely The Pit on a nice, sunny day. Not real stirred up, either. I'm nostalgically jealous - my emergency heat has been running the last couple of days.

I'm going to sound like a bit of a jerk here, but consider this: Once he graduates, his fellow team members are going to be risking their lives on his ability to perform regardless of any temporary physical ailments. If, within the context of his training regime, he cannot perform a basic...

Seavision products are outstanding and super durable. I have no problem with reading my Luna with the bifocal correction, and the distance prescription is perfect.

I feel like there is a story in this.

The irukandji (finally got the spelling right) don't necessarily want to kill you, but if you get stung and don't die, you'll wish you were dead... Funny note - even on Aussie recreational dives, always wear gloves. There are nasty little blue bottles that attach to every line, even the short...

Nothing matches 8 meter long salties in QLD for potential fun. Its a damned dinosaur that can bolt toward you at about 20-30 KPH. Even better, if you ever walk the beach at Cape Tribulation, on the sea side, you've got salties, great whites, box jellies and irikanji(sp?). On the land side...

Somewhere in my home, I have a memory stick with a 2017 GBR bleaching pdf report and a pile of raw data that I got from a RAN officer who was diving with us on the Mike Ball boat Spoilsport. She'd been collating environmental reef studies, and said it was bad all along the thing. On our trip...

Skip the weights. Its really unlikely that Kona doesn't supply weight, but even then, they're cheap.

Where was that? I always eyeballed the bottom there as being no more than 200-250.

Very nice - I was reminded of my first night dive on Bonaire - at Buddy Dive's house reef, I had a tarpon on each side of me using my light to hunt with. It was a little unnerving at first, but I got used to my new dive buddies....

Sounds exhausting, to be honest.

I like American, along with the Citi AA card. American has some great codeshares with QANTAS, JAL, Cathay Pacific (which includes Dragon Air); these will take care of most routes in and out of gateways like NAR, HKG, SYD. On the card, the black card carries a stiff annual fee, but you get...

Fantastic - some of my favorite sites!

I agree - every time I go somewhere like a Sandals and see the guys from the shop recruiting DSDs around the pool, I have to wince. All I can think about is the amount of liability and the difficulty posed in trying to control a panicky, untrained, novice diver at 30 feet, particularly if...

I'm a 30 year lawyer - this complaint looks like a load of crap. It accurately states negligence, but the negligence stated is in no way causative of the death.

I suck midrange sounds (got a newly minted divemaster/guide in Mexico to thank for that, along with me stupidly following along), but when I spring a leak, that whine pierces my soul.

In all seriousness, in well-lit situations, about 10-12 feet away seems fine. I've never timed it, but it feels like I'm checking positions every 30-45 seconds. My usual buddy is my wife, who looks for me about every 5 minutes as an afterthought and swims in whatever direction she feels like...

If you don't use all your gas, have you really gotten your money's worth out of the dive? :popcorn:

Falling Rock Park is a recreational use swimming quarry with some sunken things which are fun for recreational divers who don't generally get to go to good places. It was where I got my OWD card (there are a few sunken platforms for training), and I think that the local paramedic and police...