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Dash, "Red" is right - go to a Vietnamese travel agency for the best deals. I recommend "Little Saigon Ticket Center", 7300 Bolsa Ave., Westminster, CA 92683; phone: 714-373-3888; ask for "Yvonne" and she'll take care of you. We got LAX-SGN-LAX round-trip tickets from them for late Dec '06 to...

Will the winning photos be posted for us to view?

Many OW students and new divers are told/taught to be back at the surface with 500 psi left in the tank. However, they are not taught how to determine that tank pressure at which point they need to start the ascent, at slow, controlled rate plus a safety stop (and deep stop[s], if needed) to...

Having the reading contact lens in the non-dominant eye makes total sense to me. I also completely agree with the non-surgical approach. Not only is it alot cheaper (contact lenses are so inexpensive now to compete with lasik), it's also easily reversable anytime you want by just taking out the...

Interesting concept, Catherine. Not that I need reading contact lenses yet :D , but just curious. Do you alternate using that one contact lens between eyes, i.e. in left eye some days, and in right eye on other days? Otherwise, wouldn't the chosen eye for the lens be affected more than the other...

Hmmm... Photobucket seems to get good reviews; think I'll give it a try. Gdog, you mention Shutterfly in your OP, so I'll say a few words. I've used Shutterfly and have shared a few photo albums with friends and family. It works okay, and I haven't hit a limit (don't know if they have one or...

I also think that fastmarc's rendition is nice. Unless it was at shallow depth and the environment exposed to lots of sunlight, however, then there would have been at least some green tint, and what the diver (and camera) actually saw probably was not that white. Anyway, not to take anything...

I'm new to PS2, but here's my attempt, including a bit of cropping and blurring of the background.

Correcting for the blue/green tone (another way of saying white balance adjusting) can be done before (setting/adj white balance) or after the shot (photoshop). Properly done before taking photos can save considerable time of post processing. Overexposure and backscatter are different and...

Debbie, you may want to read your Sony manual on "white balance" before using your camera underwater. Learn how to put it in underwater mode (factory preset white balance for UW photography, if it has one) or how to manually set the white balance underwater. Otherwise, your photos will probably...

Contaminated air/gas? Not likely. OP had 2 similar headache episodes on two different boats (and thus air sources). Also, contaminated air/gas should have resulted in other divers on each boat also experiencing similar headaches. Sinus headache from squeeze / reverse squeeze? Not likely. No...

From the varying responses to a thread on muck diving started a few weeks ago (here), it seems that there may not be a "unified theory" for muck diving. Interpretations range from poor viz to dirty water to barren bottoms to man-made discards. Allison's photos seem to suggest a barren...

Is this the accident referenced in the OP? Not clear to me if it's the same or different dive fatality. The article does say that the deceased is from Kona.

Through experience, we have found that, for us, using either the delta or echelon arrangement while in transit, especially at a good pace, is effective in minimizing buddy separation (by the way, we typically only have 10-15 foot viz) and ensuring quick seeing and responding to a buddy issue, if...

As others have pointed out, a leader should be clearly designated and a communications plan agreed upon prior to the dive(s), including who to do what if one of the divers develops an issue (OOA/low on air, buddy separation/missing, etc.) Regarding trio buddy formation/positioning, check out...

Thank you both, Don and Lynn, for your quick responses. I watched the lecture video, Don. Good presentation. I need to start equalizing while still on the surface and just before beginning the descent, and then keep pressurizing continuously until I reach the bottom. Thanks again.

I did a fairly routine and easy shore dive yesterday. Upon descent to a sandy bottom at 15 fsw, however, I couldn’t clear my left ear (first time ever that I couldn’t clear). There was a mild ache, but nothing sharp or unbearable. Rather, I would describe it as a discomfort. After holding my...

Congratulations are in order then. Welcome to the world of scuba diving!

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?p=2892118#post2892118 post #2, posted yesterday, May 2, 2007: First and foremost, you need a C-card before doing any scuba diving!

IceIce, thank you for taking time to write such an excellent post! Many dive sites where I live (the U.S.) have sandy bottom, but not the diversity of small, unusual critters that you describe. As you've seen on this thread, here in the West, muck diving is often used to describe diving in poor...