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    Compass preferences?

    Just a quick question. Do you guys prefer a compass that is wrist mounted or console mounted? Is there a difference? Pros and cons of slightly different techniques? Personally I've noticed more people have a little difficulty with tilting and alignment issues with the wrist models.
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    Finding friendship and love on Scuba Board!

    Now, being the sociable and romantic girl that I am, I am interested if anyone has ever met someone through the online Scuba Board community, who has then gone on to become their friend or indeed, lover, in real life? Also, how many people met their current partner through the scuba industry...
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    When you gotta go you gotta go...right? ;)

    I'd like to bring up the question of the whole 'when nature calls' issue ... Is it normal to pee in your wetsuit? What if it's not your wetsuit?! Why is it that you need to go more than usual? Is it something to do with expansion of pressure in the bladder upon ascent? I heard a couple...
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    What To Wear For The Young Female Traveller in Thailand

    I noticed a thread earlier along the same lines, but most of the responses seemed geared towards the male of the species, "ie, suggestions of long trousers and shirts" for evening wear. Question is, what do you wear if you're a twenty-something female like me! I will be staying in one...
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    Shark attack video *Warning, not for faint hearted!*

    Here is a link to one of the other attacks caught on camera, (there have only ever been 3 to my knowledge). You probably have seen this one on discovery a few times, it's the famous great white attack, it happened about 10 yrs ago, a few hundred miles off the coast of Chile. The girl was a...
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    A career as a dive instructor - realistic or idealistic?

    I am just starting out in my journey to train as an instructor, which involves me selling up everything in the UK, and moving out to Thailand with a one way ticket in just a couple of weeks to study at an IDC. I have this sort of wildly optimistic, blind faith in the idea that if I work hard I...
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    I've Dived & Gone To Heaven!

    Hi everyone!! I'm 26, a film graduate, and a budding diver-to be, currently living near Birmingham, UK. I certified and got my advanced within a 3 week period a few months ago, and it's changed my life...as I'm now selling everything and taking a one-way ticket to Thailand to become an...
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