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North East Coastal diving from Virginia to New York is generally all low vis diving. Most divers who dive up here are very experienced and very comfortable in low vis. A Typical day is less than 10 feet, a good day maybe 20 and once in a blue moon maybe 30-40 feet. Most days are less than 10...

My Philosophy... Every dollar in rent is a dollar wasted. You'll never get them back. If you buy your gear, you can always sell your gear and recoup a good bit of the money... especially if you buy quality... and the gear you mention is definately quality. Scubapro gear and a few other...

Apparently you're not familiar with the use of english language. Many things can be grabbed. Your attention is one of them. A headline reading something is Grabbed is not false when in alludes to ones attention. Haven't you ever said or heard anyone else say that something "grabbed them?" and...

Alligator Grabs Diver! It would have won me awards from the National Enquirer... here it gets edited by liberals. What's odd is that the people at the National Enquirer and the Scubaboard Staff are exactly the same in their ideals... but they would completely disagree on content... I find...

Do I edit your posts?

For those who like diving the Cooper River for Sharks Teeth in South Carolina, here is a note for you... BEWARE OF ALLIGATORS. On a recent trip one of our divers became seperated from the main group. We all returned to the boat when we realized one was missing. We were not immediately...

Are you kidding? Because the shop owners have told the Instructors to SELL SELL SELL classes. They don't need Dive Masters... they need your dollars. They may even be getting commissions on the classes they sell you. You may very well be ready to be a dive master in their opinion... but...

Your responsbility is to make sure they return safely to the exit point. If they happen to break the dive plan (on purpose or not), your responsibility is still to get them back to the exit point. The only difference is that if they are grown adults and it is proven that they chose to violate...

If you're Open Water Certified... your limit is 130 feet. The 60 foot nonsense they teach you is just so they can sell you advanced classes... Everything you learned in class will let you dive to 130 feet. Do you understand the tables? Do you understand the computer (if you bought one?) If the...

Tip? I've been teaching for years... the only tips I've ever gotten were a cheese cracker and a bottled water. Since I've never had any complaints against me either, I just figured Instructors weren't supposed to get tips. Hmmm... I guess I'll start sitting a tip jar on the side of the pool...

For the most part, diving with asthma is OK, so long as it is controlled. The only real asthmatic contraindication for diving anymore is if it is excersize induced. Even that should not necessarily rule you out if you're medicated and relaxed. There are still some places in the world where they...

String... I've absolutely seen one... that's how I know they fail. The most common failure is caused by the gyrations in the screw threads getting worn down or damaged. The most recent event I saw was a guy who came into the shop with an adapter where the threads somehow had a gash (almost like...

My god... I'll be diving Crystal River soon

Larry, are you the netdoc?

As both an SSI AOWI and Scuba Rangers Instructor, I believe I am qualified to address this subject. You are correct, there are no laws when it comes to certifications... only recommended limits. Rangers range between 8 - 12 Years old and Junior Open Water Divers rare from 10 - 15, so there is...

Yoke all the way... I've seen too many adapters cause problems. Kind of like anything else in life. Things with adapters have more problems than things that are one solid unit.

1. DO NOT use Sudafed or any other drug. 2. See an ENT familiar with diving 3. If an ENT can find no medical reason for your problem, then you simply aren't doing it right. Medical reasons can be many things, simple to fix ones include blockage from ear wax, colds, ear infections, allergies...

I couldn't resist... There is never a reason to remove floatation in the water... unless it becomes a hinrance when attempting to lift someone from the water... It is much easier as you are towing someone to the exit point to release weights, inflate their BC (keeping them afloat), purge...

My take on this diver was that he is a new diver working his way through every class in the book before ever doing any real (or minimal) diving. He probably isn't all that familiar with exactly what he needs for the type of diving he will be doing. My point was for him to slow down... and the...