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Yeah, has the accidents and incidents thread been started yet?

I would like to see the source for that claim (other than this one Egyptian article). I have not been able to find any information corroborating it. To the best of my knowledge, the record that preceded Gabr's was that of Nuno Gomes. Pascal Bernabe claimed to have made a 330m dive not long...

In much the same way that Oya's full speed run, head first int a brick wall, will be a feat for the ages... if he survives it. I mean, what is the challenge here? To see who can go the deepest? Or to see who can go the deepest while hampered by certain handicaps? If he wants to be the deepest...

I would just like to weigh in at this point and say that this guy is a moron and I am unimpressed by his silly endeavour. I'm saying this now because on Mar 31st when he's dead, it will be "disrespectful" to say such things, so let me just get it out of the way now.

Dude, while Protea Banks certainly is an awesome diving locality with a variety of sharks on offer, you'd be extremely lucky to find a Great White Shark. To answer the OP's question, I am not aware of any dive operators that specifically target Great Whites (non cage diving). One would think...

Have you guys seen this video by Paul Nicklen, a National Geographic underwater photographer? Awesome stuff! Face-Off With a Deadly Predator - YouTube

Which reminds me of the ancient Chinese proverb: "He who makes only a single post to the forum, most likely has only spam to offer."

I'm just seeing a frog encapsulated in an ice cube.

This is an interesting one. I'm fortunate to do most of my diving in excellent viz. Even our local quarry has fairly decent viz. On occasion though, after a rain storm or a long weekend where the quarry had been churned into a silt soup by qualifying divers, the viz can be real bad and, weirdly...

I'm confused. This may seem like a good idea to you but to me it actually sounds counter productive. A diver has two fully functional regulators, one of which the mouthpiece has become detached. He also has plenty of air on his back. Still he nearly drowns. How on earth would he be any safer if...

HOLY SMOKES!!!! I would have more than just a heart to heart talk with such a tool. Jeepers, there must be a way of stripping someone of his dive cert...

Thanks so far, still keen on getting more opinions. I just want to clarify that I'm not referring to the skill of air sharing or buddy breathing. That is a skill that we practise regularly and I think we're fairly versed now. Going OOA is not a skill:D so I'm not really referring here to...

So I've been wondering about this one. I do try to manage my gas properly so that I will never run the risk of going OOA and so far I have never. But is it perhaps worth simulating an OOA experience by diving on a nearly empty cylinder but making sure you take the necessary safety precautions...

Brilliant! Thanks for that. P. ornatus certainly is known from the southern Indian ocean so it is very much a contender. I had considered it, and disregarded it, because the reference material I have shows it with a more orange body. However, some Googling now produced numerous hits of the...

Thanks for all the responses. So it seems that pressing the purge button on the inflator hose when the BC is empty will cause water to flow in? That makes sense and I'm pretty sure that explains the constant filling up of my wife's BC. We both try to weight ourselves such that we require no air...

I'm not sure I know how the mechanism of an air dump valve actually works. The reason I'm asking this is because my wife's BC is forever filled with water after a dive. We have very similar BCs. I have the TUSA Platina Evolution and she has the TUSA Selene. Apart from the bladder and the fit...

Thanks but I am pretty sure the second one is not P. brevicarpalis. Apart from the white patches being in all the wrong places on the body and the banding on the limbs being very different, the slender shape of the body is also very different from the more squat looking P. brevicarpalis. The...

Hi all, I'm hoping that someone might be able to help me identify these two commensal shrimps that I've photographed this past weekend at Sodwana Bay, South Africa. I assumed them both to be some species of Periclimenes but I understand that this genus has been split into a numebr of different...