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Thanks a lot for your advice and your good wishes. I'll keep the regulator in its bag far from the heating and sunlight. I am concerned about my inactivity, too. I wasn't too expert a diver when I was forced to stop, anyway, so what is clear to me is that I will have to take one of those...

Even though I thought I'd always rent all of my equipment (except for the mask and snorkel, which I've already got, and the computer I got some time ago), I've just got the regal present of an Apeks regulator. It's an Apeks ATX40/DS4 plus the matching octopus. And I've already bought a pressure...

Is that so? I had the impression that the PADI OWD certification allows to go up to a maximum depth of 18 metres (for example, look here). And, PADI being the most extended agency, many dive centres won't let OWDs go deeper than that, no matter the agency which certified them and how many dives...

Yes, it's no-deco diving. And all my dives are short (I don't think I've ever gone beyond 40 minutes), as I'm not good enough yet not to run out of air. My maximum depth is around 30, tough most times I stick to the 18m most diving centres assume an OWD should be doing (being an ACUC OWD, and...

I mean I cannot get another memory for myself, which is what I don't trust. My computer is new and works perfectly well, but I just wondered what would happen if I forget to turn it on. And for that problem, having two computers wouldn't be the solution. If I forget to turn one off, I'll sure...

Thanks! It's great to know it. Well, I forgot to mention that I always use air, no nitrox. So all I do with the computer is turn it on at the dive center to check the battery is still OK prior to the dive (so as to have time to replace the battery if it's low), and then I turn it off because it...

Thanks a lot! I didn't know that. I've seen that my computer (a Cressi Leonardo), according to the instruction manual, gets automatically into the dive program "DIVE AIR" when you reach a depth of 1.2 meters. But I don't know whether that means it'll turn itself on if it's turned off, or it...

I suppose it's a very basic question, but although I've searched for the answer on the forum, I haven't found any. The closest thing is having a computer which fails in the middle of a dive, but I don't know whether the situation would be exactly the same. It's never happened to me, but...

Hello guys, I thought I'd come and update. I immediately replaced the talcum powder with corn starch, and in a couple of days I noticed the itch was there, but much more bearable. Now, it's almost over, and there's none most of the time. The red has become pinkish. On top of that, I finally had...

Thanks a lot for your kind help! I have a friend whose son has so smelly feet that no one can stand being closer than three metres when he's barefoot, who I know has foot fungus powder. I hope that will fix it. And from now on, the moment I see I start sweating too much again I will use corn...

I'm sorry for asking about something that has nothing to do with diving (though this forum is supposed to be for non-diving topics related to women), but when I wondered whom I might ask, this is the first place that came to my mind. It sounds like a silly joke, but it's a real problem. Here in...

Something I've just remembered. Long before I even got the idea I might like diving, when I was a child, I remember being recommended the procedure of pinching my nose and swallowing as an experiment about I cannot remember what. When I did it, I felt as if my ears had been blocked and I...

Once again, thanks a lot! I'll talk with my ENT doctor first of all, depending on what she tells me I'll call DAN and, in any case, I'll take extra precautions when returning to the surface. I've never had tubes in my ears, whatever that is. Nor infections after swimming. The only thing that...

Thanks everyone! I've taken good note of all your advice. Unfortunately, I'm not a member of DAN, because as so far I've only dived in organised trips with my instructor, which don't happen often during the winter, and which not always suit my availability at the weeked (I live very far from the...

I usually carry on going upwards slowly. I haven't dived many times since I was certified, and it's always with my instructor (who organises short dive trips). Since he claims it's impossible that I may have equalising problems while going upwards, and I think he may feel impatient waiting for...

Sorry, I forgot to quote this. I'll look up information on reverse squeeze.

Thanks everybody for your answers! How should I do it? I remember hearing that doing the Valsava manoeuvre while ascending is not right. If I'm not wrong, it increases the pressure in your throat so as to open the Eustachian tubes, which are kept closed because of the increase in the pressure...

I've found a problem with my ears when I dive which I'd like to ask you about, since everybody (including my OWD instructor) says it cannot be as I describe it. Before being certified, my ENT specialist told me I had no problem compensating my ears after testing them with a device that sort of...

Thanks everybody! I'll discuss all of your suggestions with my cousin. I know that the most obvious one (taking pills as if she were on birth control) is not feasible, or at least not recommended, owing to something related to the operation she underwent and the condition which led to it. As to...

After some coaxing, I've finally persuaded my cousin and best friend to take up diving. She never thought she was going to like it, but after getting certified, she keeps on wanting more and more, which is great news. But we have a small problem, for which I cannot find a solution. My cousin is...