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How much you learn in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course (AOW) depends on you and your intructor. Here are some scenarios - both assuming your're doing 3 dives on the first day, 2 on the 2nd day. P.S. deep and navigation are required dives, others can be chosen. 1ST SCENARIO...

That Suunto computer is ok, nice features, but not built for rugged use. You can change the battery yourself. The Uwatec computer your friend is selling you, it's solid, many features are available only if you can connect it to a PC, and when the battery runs low, you have to send it to the...

Try Boracay... :)

Complaints like that... send an email to the Philippine Department of Tourism.

If you can do all that has been suggested, then you don't have to be conscious of being the diver to go low on air first in a group. Hey, you could be diving with some very experienced divers, or those with smaller bodies/lung volume. Can't compete with them assuming skill levels are just the...

Don't be like me. Log your dives. I got lazy... that plus losing several hundreds of dives when my hard drive failed on me and yeah, no back-up. I can always claim that I have over 1000 dives but I cannot prove it. Last year, it was more than 300 dives. And oh, a log book is a nice way to...

I don't normally carry a snorkel during a dive unless doing a course. I do admit though that sometimes having one could have made things easier for me in certain situations. For instance, I did a night dive about 3 years ago. At the end of the dive, the motor engine chose not to start. So, I...

As of February 19, 2003, I have logged 60 dives... :)

Not sure if this is the right forum, so please moderators, please move if posted in the wrong forum. Sorry. Anyway, where can I find information or does anyone know if there is an adaptor for DAN or ANDI O2 Regulator that allows it to connect to a CGA-540 valve and/or the standard scuba tank...

Hi hk_diver and all others... Your experience is an example of what we want to avoid. Experiences like yours also affects our business in some ways as some people who inquire about our services online are skeptical. To be safe, here are some things you can do next time you correspond with...

Not only novice or beginners, but I've seen experienced divers do stupid things like wanting to go deep just for the heck of going deep... but most sickening is witnessing instructors who should not have been dive instructors at all.

True. I used to have an Uwatec dive computer and sending it in for battery replacement from the Philippines takes a long time. People who buy non-user replaceable computers should first check the remaining battery life. I would say that it should have at least 90% at the miminum. If less...

Most likely, you're planning or have done decompression dives using a computer. Before buying a backup table, visit your LDS and ask about courses that allows you to do decompression dives. :)

In most cases, a student would look up to a dive professional for advice on buying equipment. Most likely, distributors think of the alledged lost 10% as additional cost of advertising - although the term most of them used is "incentive". Nothing wrong in making money off selling equipment...

I drive my motorcycle everyday to go to the dive shop where I work. :)

It's a good lesson to everyone to have the batteries of a computer replaced especially if there is absolutely no way of knowing exactly how much battery time there is left on the computer. The Mosquito, having user replaceable batteries (and cheap too) should be replaced after purchasing...

sydney_diver I agree 100%... :)

Very interesting question. Most of the time, our divers keep their valuables in their hotel/resort. Some who bring their valuables, we keep them in our cabinets. The more important valuables, we can keep them in our resort's safety depost box. That question you asked is really very...

Girl and whimp... hehehe. :) Does that mean boys cannot afford to be whimps too???