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I was thinking the same thing, except it was on the Peter Hughes Belize liveaboard (Sun Dancer). I don't remember a safety drill, but I do recall attention to detail and the crew doing their weekly or monthly fire-fighting drill while we were underway.

Thanks Mike- Just on the flight back from our trip and wanted to thank you for responding. I am glad to hear that you weren't happy with the pouches as well, and I'll e-mail you to take you up on your offer to replace them with better ones, I appreciate you taking care of this issue. I also...

We (my Girlfriend and I) received two Nautilus Lifelines a bit over a week ago- they actually were brought down by our LDS to meet us in LAX for our flight out to Fiji, where we are diving for another week. I successfully registered both of them using a Mac running Lion. I found the Boat USA...

So, I was considering the Explorer Ventures Saba/St Kitts in late December or early January, but I'm wanting to learn more about the reef/critters that might be seen. For reference, I thoroughly enjoyed the Peter Hughes Belize boat, thought Roatan was nice but not awesome, and enjoyed...

I recently got the newest issue of Diver magazine, and there was an interesting article about diving in the Cook Islands. I was intrigued, and there was mention of a liveaboard, the Bounty Bay opperating there. A little searching has turned up Pacific Expeditions Ltd - R/V Bounty Bay which...

I've been told the ST1 is environmentally sealed, but I've also been told that there is an cold-water environmental kit. I'm a bit confused- is their an environmental kit for this, is it sealed, or not? Atomics website says the M1 first stage is sealed and cold-water ready, but doesn't say...

Well, I've only used my Inon Z240 so far, which uses a fiber optic sync cord. When I get a chance I'll try and borrow my buddies Ike strobe for a dive. When I plugged the ikelite cable into the hotshoe of my G9, I saw similar behavior. I'm not sure what your asking about when it comes to...

I shoot almost entirely in Aperture priority mode. By the end of the week I had figured out to set the custom settings- C1 for Macro and C2 for larger field of view. For C1/Macro, I used auto white balance, ISO 100, aperture pri, spot metering and focus, force flash and a few other settings...

Just got back yesterday from the Turks and Caicos Explorer II liveaboard with my G9, Ikelite housing, ULCS arm, Ikelite W20 wideangle adapter and Inon Z240 strobe. Delta lost my luggage, so I didn't get the housing until the night of the 2nd day. It was my first time diving this system, or any...

I'm planning on ordering the Ikelite housing here soon, and I'm trying to decide on strobe arms. Do any G7 users with the Ikelite housing have suggestions on whether to get positive buoyancy arms or not? Right now I am leaning towards a single DS-125 with a mount for a can light.

I've spent a bit of time playing with my G9 and have been quite happy as well. I really like a few features- being able to assign a button to set whitebalance, easily getting it to auto-set exposure while in manual (so I can tweak from there), etc. Ikelite tells me the housing will be...

Just an update, the group I was with was lucky enough to see a Manta at (I believe) El Bajo right before we swam off looking for hammerheads (we didn't see them) when we dove their last summer ('06). The second dive on the site, a huge whaleshark (about as long as the boat) hung out with folks...

The rinse tanks, photo tables and general photo support on the Peter Hughes boat were very nice, and the Captain for the trip I was on is an avid photographer who had lots of good ideas of where to get great shots and what to look for at upcoming sites. For example, he gave people lots of...

This May, I did a week trip at CocoView in Roatan followed by a week on the Peter Hughes liveaboard in Belize. Now, I really loved the liveaboard in general, but I also have to say that I thought the diving in Belize was very good, easy, and moderate profiles (except the Blue Hole which I...

Sounds like May 5th is a popular week. I'll be at CCV with my local dive shop trip, then off to Belize on the 11th. I'm looking forward to seeing the same spots at different times of the day. Maybe it's worth putting together a SB shore dive to the PA one night?

A few things I've picked up on that might be of interest. 1) Roatan is definitely a place you can get Malaria. There have been recent reports (in the last few weeks) of several people picking it up. 2) Chloroquine is the CDC recomended prophylaxis. 3) Most places won't let you donate blood for...

Thanks for the info! Looks like we will be doing the Peter Hughes liveaboard. She decided 25+ dives and luxury made it interesting enough. Since she is staying another week (lucky girl) she will probably head to Isla Marisol for a few days since the liveaboard won't likely make it down to...

So, in May, two of us will be spending a week in Belize, right after having spent a week at Coco View in Roatan. We're pretty darn excited about the trip. We're trying to figure out what to do/where to stay in Belize. We're both avid divers, and reasonably experienced. We seem to have...

Heh, I was just getting ready to run by Silent World to pick up my cylinders and try and find Curty. Maybe that explains why they weren't answering the phone.

Quite a bit of the Seattle/Tacoma area is without power- right now, around Seattle at least, it looks like just Downtown Seattle and Bellevue have power. Cell service has been iffy in at least a few spots- not sure if Alki or Edmonds have coverage right now. I would not dive today, we got a...