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That's hilarious. I've dived it five or six times and I keep saying I'd never noticed whether there were any fish there (not quite true but it drives home the point).

What, are you kidding? You can't throw a rock from the shore on either island without hitting a parrot fish. Angels are a little less common but I would say it's much more uncommon to not see angels than to see them. If you night dive, you'll almost surely see a parrot fish sleeping in its...

Regarding the post about cruise ship passengers enjoying Curacao, I'd say the simple fact that they're cruise ship passengers calls their judgment to question. morecowbells, that's a tough call. The diving on Bonaire is just simpler. So is the life. The attitude is more relaxed. Less...

The Dive Bus's rate for a 2-tanker includes picking you up at your doorstep, feeding you a light meal between dives (gotta do something for that surface interval) and carrying you home when all's done. Their business plan is based on smaller groups and a very personal level of service. It's...

You’re right, alashas, Sunset is set up almost exclusively for the benefit of the resort’s guests. And I don’t wonder. I’m guessing I’ve done maybe 40 2-tank boat dives with Sunset in the past eight months. In every single case, I was the only customer on the boat who wasn’t also a guest of...

The other shoe has dropped. I bailed. I was talking to one of the DMs at The Dive Bus (Curacao), who gave me the only positive reason I could come up with for sticking it out. He pointed out that the DM is sort of a de facto instructor on every dive. Most of the customers are going to be...

QK, Sunset Divers does Watamula every Tuesday afternoon. It’s the only dive location they schedule in advance (otherwise they “poll” the divers on the boat). On rare occasion and by popular demand, they’ll send a boat on another day, usually Sunday p.m. You don’t find many who’ve dived there...

According to all the long-time Curacao residents I’ve inquired to, it has been an odd winter. March was unusually cloudless but April has been abnormally cloudy. The clouds have not produced much rain (an observation verified by the water level in my cistern) but, IMO, it has hindered the...

We’ve been doing pool sessions intermittently since day one. The demo stuff is one of the things I’m finding stressful. I have little talent for it and I find my lack of progress frustrating. I figure it’s like dancing. Show some people a step one time and they know the dance. Some people...

The ‘collecting merit badges’ remark was a bit of tongue in cheek. If that were my motivation, it probably wouldn’t have been a quarter of a century since my last badge. I appreciate the even-handed opinions. Since this is admittedly pretty whiney, I’d expected more hostile responses. I...

I need advice from the instructors and divemasters of the forum. When I moved to Curacao last summer, I’d been sitting on the same OW cert since 1982 (actually, I’d been out of diving for quite a while following a financially disastrous divorce). I thought to take advantage of the locale so...

You haven’t mentioned navigation so I’ll offer this suggestion. As a noob, you might have concerns about being able to find your way underwater. Don’t. The topography of most Bonaire (and Curacao) reefs is very simple. It’s just a hillside that happens to extend down beneath the waterline...

That might be an option if I were living in the country where I bought it. The only Scubapro dealer on the island doesn't sell Uwatec.

I was mistooken. The error isn’t E7, it’s E8 (photo below). Not that it matters.

My original Uwatec SmartCom failed in late January after five months of use (thread here). The LDS sent it to Scubapro and they replaced it a brand-new unit and it only cost me $85USD, shipping and customs fees combined. The new unit failed today, the second time it’s been in the water. The...

My new, replacement SmartCom has failed after a total of two dives (the ol' error E7). I figure that's newsworthy in its own right so I'm starting a new thread, which I'll link back to this one.

I got 78°F today.

I was in the market for a new BCD anyway, and this seems an excellent opportunity to get into the whole “plates and wings” thing. Got a check ready to launch. Just need details. (Jeez, it took a long time to get through all ten pages of this thread!) :geek:

I considered that possibility (there is an admonition in the destructions that come with the hood not to put it on the console while it still is wet). If it was OE, I was awfully consistent at making it. That Scubapro replaced a near $1000USD computer outright is a clear indication of problems...

I suspect mine had a similar problem, too. I’d occasionally hear it beeping in my gear bag after I'd packed up my stuff. Sometimes it would be beeping even after I got home a couple of hours later. This happened more frequently as it aged. I was half expecting to learn mine had failed...