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Hey Guy, Those who are planning for a Vacation in India following are the dive destinations. Andamans / Dive with Vinnie at Dive India/ www.diveindia.com Dives for all levels, shallow coral reefs to deep wrecks Goa/ Dive Netrani/ Dive with Anindo at goaaquatics/ www.goaaquatics.com...

Hey guys, I became a OWSI yesterday in Phuket.

Blown O ring I did happen to me once at a depth of 6 m. The noise is awful and might scare some of the fellow divers. But there was nothing to worry much about I could breathe and came up safely. From 170 Bar the tank pressure came to 120 bar in one minute. A blown O ring at say 30 m and...

Sony HDR HC5E with Ikelite housing.

Regs are life sustaining equipment UW. So be careful. Regs like Scubapro MK2/R190 are very simple and reliable and can be eaqsily serviced personally but if you have something like Scuba pro MK25/S600 forget about servicing at home, too much effort is required and too many parts. Training...

In case of drowning victim, will not the blood O2 level be almost negligible. What will be the use of chest compressions without providing air. Exhaled air contains about 16% O2 which is good enough to provide Oxygen to the victim during rescue breaths. CCR can be good for cardiac patients but...

Have you people seen the movie "The Gaurdian" staring Kevin Kostner and Ashton Kutcher. A must see for those who are rescue divers or considering taking a rescue course. The US Coast Gaurd rescue swimmers are shown with mask on forehead. MOF is definitely not a sign of panicked diver and is...

Points discused here. 1. Low Viz - ( 0- 5 m) Advantages You look more closely and find interesting critters, fishes are less scared of you and are nearer, you swim slowly and observe more instead of a big game fish you saw on the blue horizon, you take more care of your depth and air supply...

Nice Point Scotty. Another thing is whether a person has the patience or has any teaching experience ( and love to teach) in other fields of life. A 20 year 100 D instructor and a 30 year 100 D previous schools teacher may be quite different. But experience does count. Just logging dive is not...

Can you specificaly post about the skills you had to perform in your wreck Penetration Class ? Keep on posting. We all learn a lot from your posts.

Thanks for all those excellent points. Mr. X you had a great point, we will try to adopt that. We never guide people who want to be left alone. We brief them about the dive site - features, species they would like to encounter (species chart) and they go on their own. We do not encourage solo...

Hey Terry, Those points were not actually meant for you. Anyway you never said what you would expect or what you would do then you become a dive con. Let me tell you something - one day I was diving with this DM from SoCal and a German MSDT . within 15 minutes into the dive the MSDT...

rhyz exactly my sentiments but we are in customer service business and like to see all our customers happy at the end of the dive bad viz, good viz, sunny day, rainy day choopy sea, calm sea . I know its difficult task but we try. But we really stop customers from disturbing these creatures. Few...

I love to dive with photographers and we preferably don't inlcude other customers with them. I just hang around and let them do their thing. Point out interesting stuff, remind them about depth time and air as necessary and ensure that they follow a path which leads them back near the boat...

Okay dive lover. Why don't you suggest what you would expect from your tour guide. 1. Watch you back and protect you from injuring yourself 2. Ensure that you remain with the group 3. Show you interesting stuff and explain what you saw while on boat 4. Provide data to fill your log Please...

This sunday while coming back from the dive we saw a bunch of dolphins acting very funny. A baby dolphin was frequently jumping out of the water and bigger ones were chasing the little one. There was lot of scuffle and squeaks from the little one. We could not see what was going under water as...

Whole last month I have been DMing with my LDS . I found that ( as tour guide) 60% of the divers like to swim fast during the dive and run all over the place instead of taking it slowly and enjoy the beautiful marine life. I can never find things when I'm literally runnning underwater like "the...