Scuba anyone?

[Giles]

It's a diver..........In fact, the first modern diver......

Unfortunately, I just found this......

Luckily it is well out of reach.......

[Giles]

Getting ready to jump.

Gull (a Japanese scuba and snorkelling brand) Emden floating fins. I use these when I am on top reefs looking for small critters, they help me keep a more horizontal aspect in the water, and thus cause less damage to the reef.....

[Giles]

You would not believe the planning and preparaion that went into this ultra-crap photo.....Paula and I are in there somewhere......

[Karol]

@Giles the visibility sucks big hairy balls but the banner is professionally held

[Giles]

Yeah, 50 or so divers, sandy bottom, bad call........:-)

And some of them did not got the memo about not breathing when the photo was being taken.....

[Alex]

@Giles said in Scuba anyone?:

Yeah, 50 or so divers, sandy bottom, bad call........:-)

And some of them did not got the memo about not breathing when the photo was being taken.....

but youre never supposed to hold your breath when diving...

[Giles]

Decided that I needed some shorties.......(Not for the UK in winter, I may add )

[JDelage]

Planning a scuba trip in Puerto Galera, Philippines this April. Was looking at Raja Ampat in Indonesia or Tubbataha in the Philippines but decided to do that another time. Puerto Galera is a 20h flight, plus drive, plus ferry, plus trike, but it's still much easier than those other two locations...

[Sir_Cuffs-a-Lot]

Some of my favourite dives were in the Philippines, @JDelage. Saw thresher sharks off Malapascua and this blue-ringed octopus in Dauin…. Have fun!

[JDelage]

Yes, I'm pretty excited about this...

[T4920]

Such amazing times completing my PADI Open Water course on Koh Lanta, Thailand.

The caves and swim-throughs were a highlight, and everything I thought was going to scare me on land was just so serene and beautiful underwater...

[prpx]

@T4920 - wonderful! enjoy it man

[T4920]

@prpx thank you! Already planning two more dive trips

[Giles]

That'll do nicely

[JDelage]

@T4920 - Those are top quality pictures.

[T4920]

@JDelage I know right, couldn't believe it when I saw them... I mean, his camera rig was the size of a small person so the clues were there

[JDelage]

Yeah, I have a rig with a point-and-shoot and it's already quite big. UW photo, I've decided, is really for pros or people who have a lot more time & money than me. I'm taking a GoPro rig with me to Puerto Galera.

[Giles]

Two things happened to me last trip:

1. My Suunto computer crapped out on me mid-dive. That meant I had no idea what depth I was at (as I did not have redundancy), and also locked itself for 48 hours, once I had un-crapped it out.
2. My pressure gauge crapped out on me (we think that the spring broke).

Both incidents were a little unsettling.

Paula fixed both issues for me at Xmas:

1. Goodbye Suunto and your ridiculously conservative algorithms, and hello Peregrine....
   

2. And hello new pressure gauge. All sortes of additional info including depth, so I have redundancy on that .....
   

[Giles]

@JDelage said in Scuba anyone?:

UW photo, I've decided, is really for pros or people who have a lot more time & money than me. I'm taking a GoPro rig with me to Puerto Galera.

100% agree.

We're in an unnatural and inherently dangerous environment. Live in the moment. Do not risk something nasty happening because you are concentrating on taking a crap shot that no one else will be interested in any way....

[T4920]

@Giles said in Scuba anyone?:

1. Goodbye Suunto and your ridiculously conservative algorithms, and hello Peregrine....

My instructor had a good rant to us about conservative dive computers earlier today. It was a little outside my level of understanding, but the fact you can be locked out for acting in a way you know to be totally safe must be insanely frustrating..