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    a standard dive table

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    And they say PADI is a joke

    Chiara, were do you go diving in belgium?
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    Spear Fishing the Good and Bad

    Spearfishing should be on lung power only. Nothing you ever do will beat that experience. If you shoot it, you eat it. Otherwise you don't shoot it . Most freediving spearfishermen are staunch conservationists, but we do love fresh fish. yummm
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    any new mexico spearfishermen out there

    Go spearfishing without tanks and you'll have a challenging and exhilirating experience. You 'll feel like saying "tanks? no thanks"
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    PADI Wreck Specialty

    I do wish you can actually have the course with an instructor who has done more than one wreck, and that you can actualy go into a wreck. The one i took was a waste of money, I won't mention the agency.
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    Too easy to become a DM??

    60 dives? Oh come on, let's get real. Not even close to enough. I started many years ago on the road to become an Instructor. After assistng on a couple of classes, I found out that I hated teaching, and I quit. Like someone mentioned before, there are a lot of paper tigers that think that more...
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    Careers in the Scuba Industry

    The government, DOD, Corp of Enginneers, are hiring bilogist to help them out with water permits. Depending on where you are, divng is there for you. For a pure challenge in diving, go for a comercial license. You'll learn more in a comercial diving school than you will ever with any of the...
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    Tips for underwater metal detecting???

    Fisher makes several types, pulse induction and VLF? VlFs are difficult, they produc a variety of sounds on anything and it's difficult topinpoint with them. The biger the head the more area you need to fan. use criscross patterns once youhave heard the ping of a target. Bring a sall shvel or...
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    Solo Diving

    I think he just forgot to take the caps off, I really do not think he meant it as yelling. Anyway , I agree with what he said, there are times that you are better of solo.
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    a standard dive table

    Doc, I don't mean to put you on the spot, but i am,lol. Which 2 dive tables do you like the most for recreational diving? :boom:
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    a standard dive table

    Dr Deco thanks for the info, love an objective discussion. However, don't forget the combat diver, and that the majority of educational institutions use NOAAs dive protocols and most of them do not do decompression diving. For the uninformed, there are a whole series of Navy diving activities...
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    Emergency First Response

    as has been said repeatedly, what is taught at dive classes is very little at best poor. Leave medical work to the pros. there is a real danger that after any of those diving classes, they might think they're certified EMTS.:doctor:
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    a standard dive table

    Does anyone have any idea why the different scuba agencies do not us the US Navy tables? or why none of them are equal to each other? My theory is that they just want more money from the students. Any answers?
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