Hi,

Yes, 3D2N is not enough,even if its 4D3N you will need to sacrificed your midnight for studying/quiz . Normally you have to do 5 Confined Water Dives & 4 Open Water Dives and also 5 Sessions of Knowledge Development (which you need to study)...

And of course, you can do your course at pool, but you still have to go for 4 open water certification dive trip. By doing your course at a confined pool, you can save a lot of times and worries...So during your open water dive, you can already get used to it...


P/S : Most of the dive master would recommend that you take your license in confined pool. So that before you go for your open water trip, they would already analyst your problem/mistaken and could correct you before trip, and also save your time doing everything in 4 days... My advise is, the same

Depends on what dive institution and where are you getting it from. Mostly is about the same, just that one u learn here, and do your certification trip there, and another one is you do everything in the island, which is pretty tight.

If you would like to know roughly where and how much does it cost for you to take the course, can PM me directly.

I agree with you, most important is must be comfortable in the water. But like what munkeyflo said, her's instructor might know that she can swim so she just "pretend" to ask her to swim for a distance, A instructor basically know who can swim and who are struggling in the water. That doesn't mean that instructor to be very easy going

Personal thinking, i think most of them would like easy going instructor more than the strict/serious one, like what my instructor always scold + knocked my head. "THIS IS CLOWN FISH, not NEMO" . But for more of them, they don't know what is clown fish, but everyone know what is nemo. So what's wrong with calling them nemo ?..But i was thinking...just a name, no need so serious right?...


A divemaster's duty is to assist the instructor in conducting the course, what type of DM you mean? I always would like the DM to go far far away than to be a major distraction to all the students. no offend to all fellow DMss..

just my 2 cents...

open heel fin can adjust wan ma right? make sure you dont buy those that you need to adjust maximum for you leg to go in... my 2 cents...

regarding the swimming, no time limit, you can take whole day until your instructor fed up.

wetsuit, you can or dont need to prepare yourself... cause normally the course included every equipment, but its best if you could prepare your own personal stuff like mask, snorkel, fin and wetsuit.

If you guys are interested in u/w photography, You might want to check this website out.
http://prestigescuba.com

You might find some 3rd parties canon g11/12 housing around RM 600.
http://www.prestigescuba.com/products.html...product_id=1700

same pygmy seahorse but from different camera

i heard crystal bay claims another life yesterday.

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This post has been edited by juniorkirk: Aug 28 2012, 11:24 PM

I'm using canon 5D with ikelite housing plus 2 inon z240 strobe with i-das arm. One of the problem with DSLR is either you take macro, or you take wide angle, there's no kill 2 birds with 1 stone story anymore... btw, my camera gear itself is around 10kg, so if you don't mind another 10kg with your dive gear, you can consider it too... and you can dive without weight.


This is a good regulator, some people refer it to old skool reg, try to fight trigger fish with that 2nd stage, you will know what i mean...
btw, i think its better you could buy some repair kit and keep, in case you want to keep this regulator for some time, some local dealer find it hard to get the parts. Good buy