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Question for Suunto or DM5 users: - long time user of DM3: in that app I could change the .ini file and make DM3 look in a different file location for the data base file. - DM5 has a user.config file that has XML entries, one of which is the location of the DM5 database file. - I changed that...

Nice one! I moved down to Florida from NC 5 years back. While I love the cave diving in North Florida, I sure do miss my years of diving with Bobby and his dad George at Olympus.

"But prison made him tough," Chester Spivey said of his son. "It got to the point where he became a risk taker." No Chester...somewhere along the line your son became a stupendously poor judgment maker. He broke rules on all 5 of the primary ways people get killed in caves. Then he assumed...

Not too bad at all. You get more wave action on that side and more surge if you are on a shallow reef. I felt however that there was less current (drift diving) on that side of the island compared to the side facing the mainland. I think it because the currents come up from the south and...

I dove the 'wrong' side of Cozumel several times. Cross over on Carretera Transversal (runs across the island from San Miguel). When you get to the south side of the island (facing away from the mainland) you can make a right or a left (if the road is not blocked off). The left turn requires...

Great place to dive. Expect lots of life under and around the tower. Be ready for ripping currents (it is a big bump on the ocean floor and current picks up speed over it just like an airplane wing). Watch yourself getting off the anchor line and if you get on the surface away from the dive...

Tetris...funny!!!

I've been diving with contacts since the 90's. I now use the ones you can put in and out for about a month then toss. I always bring an extra set on dives trips since I have lost one (or both) over the years. That is the exception though. The biggest pain has been as I get older I am now...

My wife and I are both basic cave and we dive there frequently. We have about 60 cave dives under our belts rights now. It is close by our vacation place and we go there for some challenge (compared to P). Several weeks back after the big rains we were going to get some flow practice (rather...

I used to live on the NC coast and dove year around in my dry suit. During the summer months though I would just put on some woolies instead of full fleece. And no dry gloves needed!

I just put on my gear and stand under the shower for a few minutes when I need a logbook fix.

I am disappointed at all of this. I am more annoyed that there is nothing in the published minutes up to April 2012 about any of this; and no minutes published since April 2012. As a Board member of a non-profit, we certainly do a better job of documenting our meetings and decisions. I...

As a former Carolina Coast diver I can let you know that diving conditions vary greatly between the three sites and often even on the same site during a day. All three u-boats are equally exposed. The u-352 typically has great viz all the time with summer months being the best. If you charter...

Owie!! Looks like this shark got in the way of someone a little bit bigger during last feeding time.

Now that's the Quarry that I remember. Now days I live in Florida and dive in the springs near Branford. Thanks for the report and safe diving.

This is a great example of why discussing common hand signals before a dive is part of the pre-dive brief. Sad that a dive master would be so lax as to not do this.

I just read an article in Diving mag that said some manufacturer is starting to put some sort of vanilla extract in the reg hose so they don't have such a rubber taste. What wieners we have become...

You could same the same about a pilot's license (which I also have)...it is simply a license to continue to learn. We learn by doing and only continued diving (and flying) and additional training will enhance what you have been taught. Note also that your training only prepares you dive in...

Hi jstein. I am an SSI instructor and over the years I've had some folks that just did not fit well with SCUBA diving; never an entire class though. It is the instructor's prerogative to decide who can go to the open water portion of the training. I will tell you this though: None of my...

I'm certified in both. Here are some tidbits. With SSI you must be associated with a SSI shop (and thus no independent teaching as you can with PADI). As Skooter said above, talk to the shop owner as they wield significant leverage in deciding costs. Generally though you can work a deal of...