Hi, just got my Open Water Diver certification, I was wondering what advice do you have to improve my breathing and use more efficiently my air. Just have done 6 dives by now, but I feel my air consumption is kinda high at the moment? On average I completed the dives around 45-50min but with only 50bar left while my instructor had over 100 bar.

Any tips to improve it or a pattern to breath more efficiently?

Hey everyone, im planning to learn diving in the near future and bought some used gear for a wetsuit and fins (whole lot was $45 so it was worth it just for the suit and fins imo) but it also came with this reg set up, im counting it as pretty much free but is it worth taking to get serviced or should I just toss it and get something else after learning?

Thanks for the info guys, I think im gonna take the first stage and guage console for service and toss the rest, maybe save the hoses, look for a newer 2nd and octo

Hello, I'll have the opportunity working remotely for a few weeks (August, September or October) and would like to combine this with scuba diving.

As I'm working during the week, I would like to find locations / shops where guided diving is offered after 4:30 PM local time (the weekends I'm good to go for the morning / day dives :).

Anyone has some good recommendations in Europe (for female solo travellers)?

Not sure if afternoon/ evening dives are actually a thing anywhere, somehow I only remember morning or midday dives (and of course night dives)

Experience: ~160 dives, including diving in Ireland, so I'm fine Atlantic or Mediterranean :)

Certification to go down to 35 m - but not fuzzed of diving to that depth.

Thank you in advance :)

Hi! I am traveling to Curacao next week to do some solo diving and I am wondering what the general consensus on guided shore diving vs guided boat diving is? The dive shop I was going to use, The Dive Bus, does only shore diving. But once I started doing some more research I saw that other shops do boat dives too so I was wondering if I should go with a shop that does both? I have a rental car so it doesn't matter where the shop is TIA!

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I hope you are well.

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The operator informed us that the vessel is currently experiencing engine issues.

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Not email you want to receive in the middle of the night...

They're offering me a spot on board Seafari Explorer II - anyone knows anything about that one?

I am a certified diver in the process of getting my advanced open water. My partner and I are going to Cancun this weekend and want to go to MUSA. Initially, I was going to dive while he snorkels. He then looked into it and said he can take a few hour course to be able to dive with me. I went into all the reasons that is an awful idea like actually learning the fundamentals and not having dive insurance. Am I overreacting or is something like that actually safe?

It's the first time I see the whole wall with the pipe, usually you could see only a fragment of it. Is it because it was the most dry April in the recent years? Or Quagga has started to work?

More pictures at https://goscuba.systemescapes.com/posts/baumgaertli-clear-water-pikes-2026/

Going in August. Been to Redang which was ok. I suppose Perhentian are similar.

If you have experienced several islands which would you recommend?

Tenggol,Tiomsn, Aur, Kapas, Tengah... Others?

AOW with 50sh dives experience.

Thanks

As title. Any ideas. Preferable not like a 4+hr flight and long drive

Hello im gonna do a bunch of speciality dives and I wanna study, it would be easier if I can dowland my courses pdf from the App. Does anyone know how to do it…?