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  1. RJP

    How to Pick the Best Liveaboard for Your Next Dive Vacation

    It depends as much on your point of departure as your destination. I live within 1.5 hrs of four major international airports. (EWR, JFK, LGA, and PHL) and from there can pretty easily connect through the major hub of virtually every major airline in the world. I've made it from my bed in...
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    How to Pick the Best Liveaboard for Your Next Dive Vacation

    Taking a livevaboard trip is like having sex: when it's good... it great!. And when it's not great... it's still pretty good.
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    5 Tips For Choosing Your First BCD

    Tip #1: Save time, money, and hassle by buying your SECOND BCD first.
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    Yet another tipping thread...

    $10/tank for day boats. 10-15% on liveaboards. Never occurred to me to tip an instructor. Never expected one since I've been an instructor.
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    Doing your DM in a 5 star IDC, is it better than a regular dive shop ?

    FYI - a DM program is unlikely to "improve your diving skills."
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    Mask Clearing Anxiety

    My experience with students who struggle with this is that most are trying to "blow water out of the mask" when in reality you should be trying to "fill the mask with air" instead. Blowing air too forcefully/fast invariably blows most of the air coming out of your nose out of the mask, sloshing...
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    Wes Skiles' Widow Looking For 25 Million from Lamartek

    Recreational diving would have been covered. However, as a tech diver and instructor there was no way to get the significant amount of coverage I wanted at a premium that made sense. To cover the type of diving I do was nearly 3x the cost. That being said, my trusted dive buddy knows that if I...
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    Wes Skiles' Widow Looking For 25 Million from Lamartek

    A.) I have great life insurance... but it specifically excludes diving B.) If I die while diving, my wife has been told to check with my trusted dive buddy to see if it was likely my fault - or no one's fault - and proceed accordingly
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    Advertizing Budget?

    Objectives > Strategy > Audience > Tactics > Budget
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    Liveaboard in Komodo with a baby

    That's what grandparents are for!
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    Advertizing Budget?

    Determining/measuring marketing budget "as a percent of sales" is a dead concept in most circles. I've always hated it, if only because it's based on the tacit assumption that "sales causes marketing spend" which is obviously bass ackwards. Further it's a largely irrelevant comparator between...
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    $210 Million And All The Diving He Wants (in The Off-season)

    If I were signing him to that contract I'd prohibit him from doing anything but pitching and sleeping in a large vault.
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    Tank Valve On/Off Indicator

    Hmm... the National Eye Institute would seem to disagree: "Red-green color blindness is the most common... they generally have difficulty distinguishing between reds, greens, browns and oranges."
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    Curacao Trip With Teenagers In June

    Marriott's house reef is decent. I've stayed there three different times and always enjoy a few day dives and a night dive on it. When you say "dive restrictions" for teenagers, what are you referring to? There's plenty of shallow dives in Curacao.
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    Help Me Find A Post

    Whenever I try to find it I search on the word "waffles" and "posts by RJP" Very specific... :-)
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    Why aren't more people taking up scuba diving?

    It's nearly unreadable as it stands today
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    Why aren't more people taking up scuba diving?

    I figured that the original got so discombobulated with the software switch that I would clean it up and re-repost. Which, frankly, took almost as long as it took to craft the original. :D
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    Why aren't more people taking up scuba diving?

    Monty Python’s “The Dive Industry Sketch” CAST: LDS Owner: Michael Palin Potential Customer: John Cleese SCENE: [A bell rings as the door to a dive shop swings open. A potential new customer rushes in out of the rain, approaches the counter, and patiently waits a few moments for the LDS owner...
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    What's On Your 'hot Topic' List?

    It's actually a significant marketing a problem for the industry. But it's far beyond a "merchandise" problem, but rather it's a fundamental "messaging" problem. The industry loves to promote the whole "diving is a lifestyle" thing. This is done under the naive misconception that touting this...
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    What's On Your 'hot Topic' List?

    A desire to do so is really all that is needed. With the added incentive that the cost to "do it right" would be less than what is currently spent doing it wrong. Far less. The problem with the quarterly self-reported industry survey is not that it's self-reported, but rather that it not...
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