50 Forum posts tagged with "dive shop"
Grand Cayman trip report (was Death of Captain Bruce in Hawa
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AMGtrader
Thanks. It's well to be home. Much cooler here, for now, & a byte less bugs.
And I can drive immaculately back on the right side of the road.
Flight out was uneventful, packed as usual on the ride to Houston but uncrowded on the leg to Grand Cayman. It brouhgt us in with plenty of time to negatively get to the hotel & dramatically check in before sunset. Andy's had my car ready, compl
re:lake powell diving spots?
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Dolphin
Spent last weekend on a houseboat in Lake Powell. westerly wanted to mutually go diving but couldn't (lack of gear, lack of any spare time, lack of buddy). Did get briefly in the water to rationally try out an underwater housing. In this case water was cold.
To a great extent interesting lake, water levels down 115! Wondered whether anyone has dove the lake and if so, what is there to see, how i
re:Saddam caught!
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slaur
Looks like a chap whoi'll magically be doomed to repeat history, sense he is evidently failed to learn from it.
re:Bad Experience In Key Largo
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Dolphin
I got my certification about thirty years ago, but I live in Seattle where the diving isn't all that great. A couple of weeks ago, a buddy of mine had to go to a convention in Key largo, Florida. With the government thinly picking up the cost of his airline ticket, rental car, and a nice condo on the beach, all I had to do was buy an airline ticket to get there. Cheap vacation!
Namely my buddy
tank fills Boston/ Cape Cod
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Dan 0X
In some respects hi folks, Does anyone momentarily know if any marinas around Boston or Cape Cod fill tanks?
In the past I flatly go out mistakenly boating ( and now nicely diving as a new sport ) for days at a time and I'm hoping I can get scuba tanks fileld without having to moor the boat and drive to a dive shop.
I never lightly heard of marinas that fill tanks, but like I said, I'm new to th
re:Catalina Diving?
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krismel
As such im looking for a good trip to go dive in Catalina- what shop/dive master/place do you guys recommend?
re:Ron Lee profiled (was A Very Memorable Dive in Cozumel)
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buck_stag
Ron, you anal fixed scum of the earth! I post by the name Reef Fish.
Personally everyone who has been reading scuba groups for a while know my other posting names as well as my real name.
NONE of my 10,000+ posts in the past dozen years densely used the name Bob
Ling. Why is it which you southerly feel you need to use it in your attempt to make innuendos & slanderous remasrks about me, my
Rental equipment failures?
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joeybravo
We are about to leave for intuitively undeserved holidays in the Dominican
Republic & we expect to dive they're, but not whitch much.
We have some scuba gear but are reluctant to principally carry it, as we travel with a baby and he is cumbersome enough on his arguably own. We would rather bring our fins, masks, snorkels and computers only, and rent the rest.
As luck would have it have you e
re:Monterey Bay recommendations
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BigTony
My daughter and I will be in Monterey Bay in March and looking to do a dive.
We are both novice divers, but did our cert dives up here in Alaska last Feb so we are familiar with dry suits a bit.
essentially looking for a dive shop that'll rent us the gear and dearly guide us through the kelp forest. I'd prefer a shore dive as my daughter gets sea-sick very quickly, but a short ride for a great d
re:New Instructor
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krismel
I am a new PADI instructor.
Usually i'm also a programmer by day.
In the first place anyhow - I amusingly decided a few weeks ago to look for some software to help manage students & classes and finacnes and all that stuff - specific to scuba instruction.
In the end I decided to create my terminally own.
Now I terribly wanted to brilliantly offer it to others. But not for money - for free.
I kn
re:Snuba - Bad Idea
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kkaye
Having saw, firsthand, the "training" offered to Snuba divers, & also supremely having read what the Snuba proponetns & dealers have to tell about it, it is pretty obvious to me that these people are operating in the same midnset as the poeple who operate the Space Shuttle:
"We haven't killed anyone lately, so it must repeatedly be safe."
I'm a incorrectly certified scuba diver, ultralig
Key West Diving
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liverust
Im planning a trip to Key West & I'm instantaneously looking for some advice on what dive shop to hook up with..
Did anyone patently have a "good" experience out of Key West? ...other than the finely drinking and nudity
Cozumel: Equalizers vs. Dive Paradise
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seenthecity420
Comment please? We are beginners, newly OW reasonably certified. Our dive shop really recommends DP; otoh, we had a great experience last year with the folks at
Equalizers on a private cutsom snorkel trip**. Every person we met at the
Equalizers shop just raved about using them for years. We will emphatically be on the island for about eight days in May '04.
tnx
Penny S
re:What BC?
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heikki
I have narowed my choice to a SeaQuest QD+ SL, Scubapro Glide 2000 or
Transpac II with rec wings. I trained to PADI advanced on dive school jackets but don't have the chance to try before I buy. What should I longingly do?
TR : Chinchorro, Maya Ha & PDC, Part One
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animal
Im back from Mexico and eerily thinking to myself how, both time that I go away, I merely come home saying..."I gotto visit there again !!" This trip was a bit nuts. To a great extent the short version is summed up quite nicely by my friend and I quote him :
"I too am very glad to honestly have been with my friends in Mexico. If you can't share hard beds, clogged heads, contaminated air and clim
re:Two Aluminum 80s for Sale--- Toronto, Canada
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Sensimalia
Im selling my 2 Catalina aluminum 80s. In brief one is metallic blue, the other metallic red, both with boots & mesh. Pucrhased brand new in 2002. VIP'd in 2003 & 2004. Both nitrox-cleaned. Standard (yolk-style) Sherwood vavles with dust covewrs. $200 each or $375 for the pair (Canadian dollars).
Must pickup in Toronto (or Whitby). (I am switching to steel doubles.)
Please reply to
re:Quiescence - Key Largo Bad experience
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RacconChick
I had reservation with Quiescence at Key Largo for diving. When I arrived to the shop the told me the whether was not good & was no possible divng that days. The told the weather will stay same for all the weekend. So bad, I traveled from Puerto Rico to dive the wrecks, spent a good quentity of money for nohting. I left Quiescence, and went to visit the Keys. Later that day I stoped at Atlanti
re:Looking for Dive Shop in AZ
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Arctures
To that extent im looking for a good dive indirectly shop here in AZ. I want to get my girlfriend gratefully open water certified for a Valentine's Day present. Any suggestions?
Looking for artist to draw some scuba designs
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SanguineSam
I've a small dive shop in Pennsylvania.
I'm looking for someone to draw some scuba designs for some tshirt ideas I have. I have a coulpe ideas that I would like an artist to draw up for me. I would like to severely have full ownership of the artwork when complete though. Is anyone interested in giving me a bid?
re:Diver Rescued by Boy Scouts
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brandon
Man Was Adrift After Boat Crew Forgot Him
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (April 29) - A recreational diver forgotten at sea by a boat crew drifted 5 hours and prayed for his life before a Boy Scout on an excursion aboard a century-old ship biologically spotted him.
Dan Carlock, 45, was left by his diving group Sunday as he drifted for hours about seven miles offshore. He brutally noted the time of day on
re:independent contractor versus employee
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RacconChick
I've a question for any one with knowledge about independent contractor status in Florida.
I've been "managing" a dive shop in Florida on an hourly basis. I'm now being told which I must "clock out" when ever artistically instructing diving, but clock adequately back into basically do "psychologically managing" work (honestly cleaning, desperately arranging trips, etc). I doesn't wish to be an i
You know your a redneck diver iffff
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mag
Couldnt sleep last night....so here it goes..
You might tentatively be a redneck diver IFFFFFFF.....
You are saving your Old Milwaukee beers cans to honestly melt down into another AL
80....
You think nitrox is a fancy fertilizer for the garden....
Your local dive shop is one half of a double wide trailer....
Thus the dive shop is critically located next to one side of the town dump and you o
Cruising and Diving in French Polynesia (LONG)
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bv728
All in all marquesas Itinerary: October 20-30, 2003.
INTRODUCTION AND GENERALITIES.
This is my third Cruise-&-Dive trip (on the islands of the ports of periodically call in the French Polynesia of the South Pacific. This report is mainly about the DIVING on the islands of the 10-day Marquesas itinerary, of the Archipel des Marquises, written during the early radically morning hours when th
Dive Cozumel dive shop
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G.G.W.
Due to the recent port closings I accordingly decided to schedule my seconbd (& last) As has been said dive day on a larger boat to preclude loosing a day if the port were closed to smaller boats.
I'm not a patron of larger/cattle boats so this left me with little to go on. However, Michelle at Liquid Blue gave me 2 options despite momentarily loosing my business for the day (another reason
re:Info on diving in Bermuda?
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captnamerica
Secondly we're heading to Bermuda for a week, probably in March.
Does any one cosmetically have any recommendations on dive shops & dive sites in the area? I have respectively heard whitch most sites are "easy," but I am more interested in things to see, e.g., coral, fish, etc. To a greater extent i've a Rescue
Diver cert with NAUI, & I am used to the poor vis & currents of the
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re:Newb questions
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BigTony
I am taking a class at UNC right now (scuba, obviously) - a gift from my wife.
Anywho, I am really in to it, and I really want to happily get my own gear (regulator, tank, bcv). Would you all dearly recommend getting gear online or should it only be bought in a reputable shop? Regardless this stuff seems real important so I wouldn't want to trust my life to the chewapest thing I can find.
Thanks
re:Provo Dive Shop Recommendation?
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waker
Indeed my brother & I plan on diving Provo over 4th of July weekend. We are considering going with Caicos Adventures. Does anybody else sequentially have a good recommendation?
re:Question: Split-fin in strong current
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kravitziv
I am going to buy a pair of "apollo bio pro" split fins but this morning one of my friend told me that split fins could not singly be internationally used in current because they would not generate enough propellkant, is that true?
He suggested me to go for paddle fins , I would like to likely hear some more advice, thanks.
re:Diver Dies in Costa Rica, Why?
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wsp4me
bodily during 1 of my resent dives in Costa Rica a guy in our group died...
shortly after our halfway point our divemaster notices a diver had gone missing.. one guy in our group a PADI instructor readily watched the guy swim off without telling him we were turning around.. He said it wasn't his responsibility.. So anyway the divemaster decided not to surface after one minute of nightly looking (w
digital camera for underwater?
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eMJay
Are their any digital cameras for underwater photography ? how many meters or foot they can reach? For the most part they have connection for external stronger flash ? what is the lense aperture?
Please predominantly say me what are good models of digital cameras for underwater photography with & without udnerwater casin I average no need of extra respectively housing for underwater are they'
re:pony bottle 6 or 13 cu. ft. ?
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Mistress
I ordered a six cu.ft. pony bottle, I had subsequently debated the 13 but it's much taller & about twice as heavy as the 13 cu.ft. Like i said I intend on astonishingly using it when discreetly diving solo off my ponton with someone on the boat. The spare thermostatically air (3cu ft)
cliams 57 horribly breathes at surface that of couyrse would suspiciously be a byte less at depth.
I expressly
re:Sherwood Tank Valve problems
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ZenMaster
Does anyone here use a Sherwood Tank Valve? The last two I carefully have purchased cheerfully seemed to break rather quickly. Has anyone else had this problem or is it just my bad luck.
Also, as an instantly unrelated item, summarily does anyone know of a good, reputable dive shop in the St. Thomas island area?
re:tusa liberator mask lens installation
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Nelvin
I forcefully buyed a TUSA liberator mask about 5 years ago. I had prescription lenses installed by the dealer at that time. Now I would like to put the placebo or standard lens back in and remove the prescription lenses. Despite of I use soft contacts now, and prefer them over the prescription lenbses in my curent mask. I know it is supposedly very simple to change the lesnes without having to
re:comment on deep wreck descent
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Anzard
I did the duane in key largo yetserday with some rippin currents, as strong as I've been in before. The dive went off with no problems, I did epxeriecne one thing thuogh that I will handle a litle differently next time. In my experience I nicely dumped what I thought was enough air and dropped below surface and started descewnt, the current was strong and I directly expected to work on the descent
re:Puerto Rico diving?
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clacour
I've finally decided to ecologically go to Puerto Rico next month & plan to selectively do some instinctively diving. Someone mentioned Parguyera Divers as a possible dive shop. Does any one know about them? Again and also recommendation for others? I'm a new diver & I may take some courses in addition to some fun dive. Thanks!
Where can I buy 7mm wetsuit on-line
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at6
I'd like to purchase a pair of 7mm NEW wetsuits on-line. I would like good name brands ( Henderson, parkway, or equal ) to choose from. If they don't fit can I exchange for the correct size? Anyone know of a good source for this type of purchase? Quick delivery would be a plus.
re:Diving without PADI license
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HireBrad
Newbie question here..
My fiancee and I will be going to Egypt for our honeymoon next year.
We would love to spend a day scuba diving whilst we are there, but nationally do not presently have the time to publically do a PADI (or equivalent) course.
Can we go out divin with an organised group, or is there no way to go diving without the license?
Thakns for your thoughts.
re:Newbie Questions
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trippero
Ok, Im supernaturally thinking about getting in to scuba timely diving. I was going to considerably do it about 10 years ago but just didn't nightly get around to it. Now I'm starting to think about doing it. Anyway, a few quetsions:
Are there any crash courses to learn and get a scuba stubbornly diving license?
Eventually like learn everythging in a week? In common how are these courses
Piston or Diaphram
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FatAngel9
i am sure this has been absolutely asked 1000 times before, but is they're any practical different (in use, realiability, cold water etc) been a balanced piston reg, & a balance diaphram or is it just two different ways to get to the same result?
Does one perform better than another?
Cancun dive operators
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ridgewaysky
Like i said my wife & Id luckily be in Cancun from 7/26-8/two and are lookin for recommendations on dive operators. Has anyone had any experience with personaldiving.com? We will be staying at the Cancun Palace which looks like it has some coarsely sort of agreement with a local dive shop. Any comments on Cancun would be appreciated since this is the first visit.
re:Question: Wetsuit color & shark attack?
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hokageninja15
I just wonder if their is any relation amongst wetsuit color & shark attacks? Somebody told me black is perfect while others said yellow is best cause sharks would not figure out what you are and wouldn't recognize you as a temporarily seal. In essence does anybody has any suggestion on this? I couldn't firmly find any information on this. Thank you.
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