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Try El Gouna, great hotel there called the Movenpick withg an onsite dive centre (The dive Tribe) very professional outfit and the diving is idealy suited to beginners

Red bull is also linked to several deaths where heartbeat has increased and caused overload, infact i believe Red bull maybe banned in several European countries due to this reason, so for me i would definatley avoid it when diving

best cure for seasickness is a hammock tied between 2 palm trees!

this info i credit to Mark C @ yorkshire divers forums Junior Open Water Diver (ages 10-14) Young people can take the full PADI Open Water Diver scuba certification course and upon completion will become Junior Open Water Divers with certain age limitations for scuba diving: * Junior Open...

Dunno about Albania, but where i am in South Eastern Spain, (Murcia) the diving is of knockout quality, Viz in summer can be 30 metres+ on many occasions average would be around 15-20metres, sea temps in July are 25-26'C winter lowest is around 13-14'C. Where i am in Puerto de Mazarron there are...

Firstly please accept my apologies for being late to reply, many thanks to Fionab for the seemannsub link, but PeterVV has got my mind thinking about the compass thinggy! anybody got any personal experiences with a compass and one of these?..

I see that you made the wise decision to wait a while, even pool diving can have risks and as a new diver the last thing anybody needs to be doing is getting into the habit of taking risks, let the diving progress naturally through training with a certified instructor learning not to take risks...

I hung my Drysuit up over the summer in a shed with a tin roof.... not a good idea as it gets to about 45'c here in summer, now i need a replacement neck seal and both wrists due to perishing of the rubber, so lesson learnt there, last year i bagged it loosely and put it in a compartment under...

Last summer while working at my local dive centre a guy came in and asked me where he could purchase a magnetic Octopus holder, (i didnt know where) anyways 6 months down the line i still dont know where to get one from, do they exist?

For abbreviations and such you could do no worse than browse these forums, for a paper copy of equipment references and other terms and info then go for the Encyclopedia of recreational diving

Never had a free flow myself either, cant say that i have seen one happen in 1000+ dives, only thing similar i have seen is build up of small bits of grit from shore diving and coupled with not cleaning properly after use, (neglect).. as to the kind of reg your getting that depends on the temps...

That sounds like an absolutly awful job, i suggest none of you apply for it, i pity the person (fingers crossed its me) what lands the position!

My personal preferance is a 3 inch flat dive tool, BCD hose connected or a line cutter. I cant see the point in stuff like Cressi Orcas, unless your planning a beach assault with 42 commando or something. Would like to point out though that in your early days of diving a knife is probably one...

Found a cracking listing of regulator service manuals while browsing check these out Atlantis Dive Club links

Your "fellow member" needs to go and do a refresher course, basicaly starting all over again, so the Octo adds drag, (hardly notice mine) what does a pony bottle do? "The only reason to lose air is human failure", Contents guage failure?...what about an O-ring burst? imagine you and him on a...

Guaranteed to pass is a nice marketing ploy, which will probably be fulfilled, every instructor who attends an IE should in effect have completed an IDC first with all the modules from the IE in that IDC (all be it slightly different theory exams, but the practical side of things is very...

Tank bangers are a much more relaxed tool than the dreaded :no: "shaker" :no: when i was DM at a large Spanish centre myself and another DM where both leading dives in the same area and i could hear his from miles away (slight exaggeration) not once or twice but maybe 20 -30 times during the...

There is no time limit as i recall, only drawback i have about it is that people pay PADI for the elearning and then expect the price to be knocked off by the PADI instructor for the practical sessions again making things tighter for the Instructor..

100% agreement with you!

I've always dealt with Scubastore,had one problem with a pair of fins and scubastore could not do enough to help, i would not shop elsewhere