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Merry Christmas! My early Christmas gift from my dad (Aqualung Titan LX Regulator w/ octo) and from me (Suunto D4i) are sitting in my gear bag, waiting for either warmer climates or warmer weather to go diving Because gently caress diving Ontario lakes in the winter.
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Crunkjuice posted:Or drunks. Don't forget us drunks Yup. Saw some of that on Koh Tao. People that drank way too much the night before, got in the water and suddenly there's a nasty little cloud around them. Guess it's like getting the traveller's shits underwater.
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Dec 29, 2012 06:35
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Finch! posted:Don't dive with Simple Life because their boat captains are wankers and anchor where they know they shouldn't and ruin coral nurseries with anchors I heard about this! Why the gently caress did he drop anchor when there was a mooring line right there? Stupid son of a bitch.
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Jan 3, 2013 03:56
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Jesus Christ, what the gently caress do you have to do to get BANNED from THAILAND, of all places? Murder a convent full of elderly nuns?
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Jan 9, 2013 06:48
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eviljelly posted:I don't even wear a wetsuit. Boardshorts + rashguard 4 lyfe~ I dove shorts and rashguard on Koh Tao. 3mm shorty wetsuit in Kauai, everyone thought I was nuts and was using 6mm fulls in february, I was fine. I'm sure I'll be doing 6mm full once I start diving Tobermory this summer. But I prefer rashguard.
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Jan 11, 2013 07:15
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Oceanic Shadow fo lyfe.
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Jan 14, 2013 18:04
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Of course, try a shitload of masks and get the one that fits best. I have a very fat face and the Shadow fits it awesomely. Seems to fit narrow faces pretty well too.
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Jan 15, 2013 22:51
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Yeah I set my DC to scream at me if I come within 2m of my nitrox hard limit. gently caress oxygen toxicity.
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Jan 21, 2013 05:15
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Holy poo poo. That footage is loving amazing. I'm pretty sure I would poo poo myself in glee if I ever saw a pod of humpbacks just loving around while I was diving.
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Jan 26, 2013 17:28
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I will never dive without a computer again. Makes it SO much easier.
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Feb 1, 2013 14:50
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Barracuda are awesome. And delicious.
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Feb 15, 2013 17:09
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I did it in this order: Mask/Snorkel Fins/Boots(because full-foot rental fins give me the WORST blisters) Dive Computer Rashie (because I was diving in tropical water and didn't need anything else) BCD Regulator Still need a wetsuit, but I'm gonna wait until I lose more weight to pick that up.
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Feb 24, 2013 04:56
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Trivia posted:It's even better when you can get your face 10 inches from something and stare it down. Did that with a solitary clownfish one of my last dives. They're aggressive little things!
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Feb 27, 2013 16:19
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Hahahahaha diving in Korea. Lots of black rock and no fish and REALLY lovely Korean divers.
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Apr 14, 2013 14:41
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DreadLlama posted:I don't want to mention that because I'm trying to be POLITICALLY CORRECT. But they ate all their fish and they'll shoot you for diving past 7pm here. So Honduras sounds good by comparison. Otherwise I'm stuck teaching English to 12-year-olds forever. I quit doing that last August. Fun for a while but it got old (and all my friends left and Mokpo became a ghost town)
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Apr 14, 2013 17:07
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DreadLlama posted:Oh I know Koh Tao. It's awesome. But I can't go back to Thailand for reasons I don't care to go into. I'm more interested in the Caribbean now. It's weird that I look forward to the times in my future when I'll be laid off, because I know I'll be able to grab my gear bag, hop on a plane and go back to Koh Tao. My friend I was travelling with didn't like it because there wasn't enough party. I loved it for exactly that reason.
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Apr 16, 2013 02:14
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Finch! posted:Pretty good if you're not an idiot. There are tons of DM's there but not very many great DM's. It's not uncommon to have freelance DM's with gigs at five or so places. Bonus points if you're a competent videographer, too. That's what a friend of mine does, and she's an OUTSTANDING DM. I know she DMs with New Way and Big Blue.
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Apr 16, 2013 14:40
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Finch! posted:If you meet Shep - can't miss her, she looks like a pixie - please pass on something like "Finch's ears are still bigger!" It might blow her mind to hear that losing a bet has followed her across continents and hemispheres... Meghan. Little Aussie chick that I swear was born with a regulator.
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Apr 17, 2013 04:01
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Finch! posted:I've known Meghan for years. She's cool. A little quirky but you're right - she is a brilliant DM. Yup, quite quirky. But awesome too.
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Apr 17, 2013 13:01
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pupdive posted:What makes a brilliant DM? Extremely competent, very knowledgeable in regards to the dive sites and wildlife in the area. Willing and able to help the not-so-good divers become better divers and most importantly keeping their divers SAFE underwater. No taking risks, or diving beyond the limits of the divers.
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Apr 17, 2013 22:41
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There was a boat captain in Koh Tao that apparently dropped anchor right onto the reef. With a tie-off line right next to him. Nobody knows why he did it. And then he dragged anchor.
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Apr 23, 2013 16:19
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Leak as in a few bubbles? Or leak as in "oh poo poo I could breathe from that"
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Apr 27, 2013 16:48
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Tobermory! Ontario diving goon? I'm hoping to make my first trip up there in the next month or so.
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May 5, 2013 00:57
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SlicerDicer posted:Oxygen is toxic below 6m, I think you mean compressed air that has a partial pressure of .21 at sea level :P NO DUH HUMANS BREATHE OXYGEN EVERYONE KNOWS THAT
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May 7, 2013 04:00
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SlicerDicer posted:Hostility much? I am just explaining the gas mechanics.. oxygen breathed beyond deco purposes is likely lethal... You know the whole physics and physiology thing Oh slicer I was just kidding, we were mocking bad divers that know nothing, like ones that think we breathe oxygen at sea level.
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May 7, 2013 20:23
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Jeju has ok diving if you like black volcanic rock and no fish. Take this from another waygook; get on an air Asia flight to Thailand, Gulf of Andaman owns.
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May 17, 2013 01:11
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macado posted:Tell the Chinese or Japanese that they cure impotence or restore vitality and they'll be gone within a generation or two. I'm sorry I think you meant, a month or two. Just tell them it's "good for male stamina".
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Jul 2, 2013 20:33
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Hey, anyone ever done diving in Bermuda? A local dive shop is organizing a trip on a week-long liveaboard (Blackbeard's) and it seems like a hell of a deal. What's the diving like?
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Jan 22, 2014 07:15
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I have the Titan LX, it's a fine reg. Haven't dived on it in nearly 2 years though. Ugh I need to get to Tobermory this summer.
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Feb 6, 2014 01:46
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Any of you guys have recommendations for live-aboards or dive resorts in the Caribbean or Central America? I'm in desperate need of a dive vacation but I'll be going solo. Quality of diving is much more important than amenities for me.
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Feb 12, 2015 19:06
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Yeah probably should have given more detail. I'm not looking for 5 star anything, my last big diving foray was several years ago in Koh Tao. I have AOW/Nitrox/Wreck but I'm rather out of practice so I'd prefer not to go crazy advanced right away. Beautiful sea life, reefs or dolphins would be really cool. I'm ok with sharks (even after some loving rear end in a top hat bull sharks made me nearly poo poo my pants at Sail Rock) and my budget is...well, let's just say limited.
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Feb 13, 2015 02:02
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cowofwar posted:Why are you hiding out here and not asking me in the hamilton thread? Um because I had no idea you were a diver! How that never came up in drunken conversation is a surprise to me.
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Feb 13, 2015 12:29
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That's really cool. I'd love to have something like that just to practice and fool around in. And that mineral water sounds neat as hell, water temperature is thought to affect onset of nitrogen narcosis, right?
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Mar 13, 2015 15:32
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Gear question: I haven't been diving for a few years now and my gear (BCD, reg) have been collecting dust. They were only used for about a dozen dives and purchased new. Should I get maintenance done on the reg, change out o-rings and the such, or are they gonna be fine? (I know it's life-support equipment, I honestly don't know what the decay on those o-rings are like)
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