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We all know not to hold one's breath when ascending while diving, it's one of the most important rules in Scuba Diving taught right at the beginning of an Open Water course. We also know that due to Boyle's Law, the risk of Arterial Gas Embolism from air entering torn (pulmonary) capillaries...

Last minute trip just booked. Friday 21st-31st December, i.e. this Friday. Unfortunately I can't make it to Borneo which I know has fantastic diving, so I am just limited to the Peninsular. Where is the best diving to be found here? Any advice gratefully received. I have dived most of the...

Can anyone help me ascertain why I cannot access scubaboard from my home? Whenever I try and acces the board from my home address I continually get a "403 Forbidden. Request forbidden by administrative rules." message regardless of the computer or browser. If I use a public-proxy server however...

I am planning to go to Mexico sometime next year (so plenty of time), and am very interested in looking at the cenotes in the Yucatan. What kind of training/cert would I need to do a guided dive inside some of the cenotes there? I currently have only OW certs. Thanks.

This is rather late notice, but I am arriving in Manila tomorrow (Sunday April 24th) at around 1pm. This is too late to make the any of the daily flights to Legaszpi, but I would still like to try and get to Donsol tomorrow. (Whale shark watching). Are there any private vans or buses I could...

My girlfriend has found an instructor that she wants to take her PADI OW Advanced with. I ran his instructor number through PADI Pro Chek (PADI Pro Chek) and got the following result, see attached picture. I have only ever seen green check marks before, but what does this red stop sign...

Unfortunately a slight rant follows. But I feel it is very justified. (For the record I have lived in Japan for 6 years, speak good Japanese (日本語能力試験1級) and have experience dealing with the Japanese so I am not a fresh, clueless gaijin)...

Going diving next weekend for 2 dives and just realised that my Suunto D6 has a low battery warning. It seems to let me go into dive mode, but I am wondering if it is actually possible to use it on a dive even with low battery... Any ideas? :confused: Note that it does NOT say "Replace Battery"...

Hi, I will be in Mindoro from 25th October for about 12 days and I will be with a Japanese girl who wants to get her Open Water Licence. Anyone here know of a Japanese speaking instructor in Mindoro? She can speak some English, and I speak good Japanese so I could translate everything...

I just flew into Manila today and have 30 days here to travel around the whole islands. I have never been here before though and wonder if some vets here can give me a quick heads up on what would be the 3/4 top places for diving here. I am primarily here to dive. Naturally I am reading a...

So I am getting to the stage in my diving where I want to expand the range of my horizon. There are some wrecks that I want to visit deeper than or very close to the standard PADI Recreational limits so I am thinking of enrolling on a basic tech course that teaches advanced nitrox and diving on...

I am flying back to the UK in July from my current home in Japan and I have a choice of a 3 day stopover in Dubai, UAE or Doha, Qatar. Having been to neither I don't know which would be the better choice for a day of diving? Any one with experience in this region able to give me a head's up...

Can anyone comment who has had first hand experience of the reliability of the wireless transmitter on the D9? I would dearly love to get one but I have heard some reports that the AI is touchy. Any personal experiences positive or negative would be useful. Cherrs, AA

According to the PADI RDP, when diving in cold water you should plan your dives as if they were 4m deeper than actual, to account for differences in nitrogen uptake. I dive with a Suunto D6 wrist computer. Does anyone know if these products make the adjustment automatically or do you have to...