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When we met I had never thought of trying diving (not exactly being a sporty type).... he was/is an instructor, and taught me after we had been together for a few months. It was tough going for a while, but 5 years later I love it. All our vacations are about diving, and last summer he proposed...

Yes, that correct, they're not. Thanks for the clarification!

FPPF.... who blocks the MAC? The folks who want the money or my ISP? I havent heard of this before...

Wow.. thanks for so many helpful responses. I certainly will have their email address blocked; that hadnt even occured to me. There are two websites involved here, and to be honest I'm not sure how they are connected. The Tongan site (not that I'd mention the name, but its www.kino.to) has the...

I've gotten myself into somewhat of a mess. I wanted to download a video player, which is advertised as Freeware, for a web site (turns out the site is based on the island of Tonga!) that plays current episodes of TV shows, etc. You are asked to register and agree to the terms of use (here's...

Cam, sorry to hear that you have been ill, it sounds really unpleasant. Have you taken time to allow your body to really heal? Stayed in bed, slept, etc? I wish you a speedy and complete recovery!

My BF blows his nose on every dive, sounds like a moose in heat is underwater.... I do my best not to be right next to him...

Sounds a bit like benign positional vertigo: there are little stones in your inner ear (help, I'm not a doctor) made of, I believe calcium, that can mess up your equilibrium. I had a pretty bad case, but was thankfully 100% sucessfully treated. In my case it had nothing to do with diving... It...

One more thing occured to me, reading the other posts: if you might be diving in a spot with a lot of others, its helpful to have an unusual marking on the bottom of your fins (like a strip of glow-in-the-dark tape), so that your buddy will know that that person in front of her is you. (I never...

I agree that it can be very disorinenting; one of my first night dives was in Egypt, and the complete blackness really did bother me : not to be able to see which way was up; no sun nor surface lights; this disorientation affected my buoyancy as well. But now i love night dives, as there is...

LeeAnn, I would have done what you did, for sure. We once ended up in Montenegro, had our own regs etc but of course no tanks. You've never seen such rusty old things in your life! I couldnt dive that day due to an ear problem, but my BF jumped in the water with a local dive guide who smoked in...

I dont know about the Underwater Channel, but there is indeed a way to save/"record" shows online to watch them offline. If you have a current Real Player you can use it....when I watch stuff on my PC, a little tab pops up at the beginning of the broadcast with the Real Player icon and asks if...

Hi all.... I have been doing some searching for a nice place to spend a week in May after our wedding. We'd like to go to Marsa Alam (have often been to Dahab), so I'm checking out the hotels that look nice and have on-property diving. The Coraya Beach sounds great, but so far I havent seen...

I also had a L4/L5 Laminectomy, well before I was into diving, so I cant comment on that aspect. I can only say that I am so glad that I did it; everyone has horror stories about "the cousin of the friend of a friend" who ended up in a wheelchair after a similar OP, but it made a world of...

I simply have to ask: do we WANT to keep divers who aren't dedicated to the sport? How many posts do we find on the Board DAILY, complaining about "Darwin candidates", careless, inconsiderate folks and just plain jerks wearing wet suits who overcrowd or even damage dive sites? I understand that...

Deefstes, I think you raise some very good points. It is indeed frustrating to think that so much hinges for so many people on us tipping "correctly" (whatever that is, afraid its an unsolvable dilemma).... It sure would be easier if the policy were clear and uniform, but that aint gonna happen...

RJP, just so that you know... that "nonsense" doesnt come from me, but seems to be the opinion of some posters here, who seem to be nice folks who have thought about this a lot, and not cheapskates looking to stiff somebody. I stated earlier it is my impression that I tend to overtip: I...

Another question. and please, nobody jump on me for this, it is indeed just a question. When diving in a place where the local wages are considerably lower than US/European standards, does it make a difference in tipping practices if the DM is local, or someone from , for example the US? It...

I am often involved in this discussion with my SO.... lets say you are in a place such as Egypt or the Phillipines, where the average wage (and cost of living) is signifigantly lower than in the US or Europe: my SO is of the opinion that a tip based on European standards is much too high; I feel...

I personally feel its better to wait til you have more dives under your belt. AOW is often very misleading, both to dive ops who insist on divers having this certification level to dive a particular site, as well as to other divers and even ourselves. The "A" is supposed to stand for "advanced"...