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I'm having problems with this; don't Certifying Agencies compete for Dive Shop alliance? I remember SSI turned my old dive shop from PADI about 12 years ago (before they went out of business). Doesn't that mean that both SSI and PADI have to implicitly help the LDS? From the course material in...

Well in my mind it's about credibility. Don't you get a little nervous when a PADI or SSI class becomes vaguely like hearing a pitch to buy a timeshare? Can't we separate them?

Celiacs disease is a disease that your body thinks it can digest gluten and fails, slowly destroying your upper intestine. This is an easily solved disease, just don't eat anything with gluten, or that made with gluten, or that fried in the same oil as something with gluten. Oh boy, it's not...

I'm really not saying the LDS is evil, it's that certification agencies are based on TRUST and training. I PAY for the certification not a sales pitch. I have no issue with LDS selling equipment, but maybe it should be done NOT in class. Isn't it a conflict of interest? In my area dive shops...

From all my SSI and PADI training, I was struck by the 'Sell in' connection between the certification agencies and the Local Dive Shop. Inevitably, we'd get around to required equipment, and within the constructs of the course would be heavy marketing of the local dive shops equipment and the...

Is there a difference between PADI and NAUI for rescue diver, and which one is better at training? ---------- Post added August 6th, 2013 at 10:20 AM ---------- pete, I'd really like to get TRAINING, but doing it in a crappy environment can be problematic. My AOW was done by a resort...

Hi! I'd like to take a rescue diver course, but I'm in Northern California and pacific ocean water temps are too cold for me. I'd like to go to a place that's inexpensive to dive, is in the open ocean, and is a dive operation with a reputable course. I made the mistake of taking an AOW course...

I've brought my non-diving wife on a liveaboard, she did fine and was bored. Mostly it's a difficult environment when 20 people are asking her, so why don't you support your husband and dive?' My oldest daughter doesn't dive and my younger two kids dive with me. We just spent a week at the...

I guess my concern in writing this thread is not to whine about my lost investment, but I feel that I want to put this on ebay, but I don't want a new diver to buy it. I feel like these BCD's will be available on the used market and I would not like to see a novice diver use one of these...

Doc, This was a guided dive, but the DM was out of sight, I had my hand on my tank banger when the diver in question stopped his turtle petting. I talked with the two DM's and they were upset, but as the customer I wonder what else I can do. In the new age of gopro we have 3-4 videos of these...

When I was a new diver in 2007, my research, my instructor and a few dives experience, convinced me that intgerated weights were better, i valuely remember, unclipping my BC instead of my weigh belt when practicing dropping weights. The gear we mostly learned on was scubapro integrated, we...

I wonder how many BCD manufacturers created Velcro only BCD's with no clip other than TUSA?

yup wore a weight belt all last week diving, not much use owning and traveling with a really heavy BC if it's function is no longer useful. :( ---------- Post added July 22nd, 2013 at 12:53 PM ---------- Why is it not TUSA's fault? The marketing concept of integrated BC's was eaiser to...

I am the "proud" owner of a TUSA Platina 5500 which has 110 dives on it puchased new in 2007. As it ages, the velcro holding the integrated weights is weakening and about every 4th dive I can feel the weight drop. I've gotten to be pro at retrieving the pouch but this is no way to dive. I...

Can you recommend any of these books? thanks

So two issues got me thinking about this, on a dive yesterday I saw two divers petting a turtle, the second issue was thinking about popular dive sites like the north side of little cayman with popular sites having probably 30 divers in a 24 hour period (morning afternoon and night dives) and...

Wow, so if I regularly go on intense diving trips this would mean 6 computers to avoid having to dry out?

While organizations like Global Underwater Explorers and Do-it-right exist to dispense philosophies of dive equipment, is there an organization devoted to teaching divers how to minimize their impact on the reef? I have some specific questions like 1) what’s the impact of non-reef safe...

My 2 children who dive and I are all around 100 total dives each. On our recent dive trip to little cayman, My daughters integrated air Oceanic Pro Plus 2 flooded on her first dive, this unit had about 8 dives on it and was recently serviced. I had my recently serviced TUSA reg First stage...