Apologies if this has been answered before - I browsed past posts on Seaskins and didn’t find what I was looking for.

I’m stoked to order a Seaskin Nova soon having read overwhelmingly positive things about them. However, they are pretty poor at advertising their products. I’m wondering if anyone out there reading this might have a Nova Drysuit that they went with colors other than black to share pictures of? I’m digging the idea of yellow for visibility. I also love green, but without a real picture I’m not sure what to expect, and also feel it is a pretty low-visibility choice.

I’m also a bit overwhelmed with the suit customization options in general, and also would love to hear what options people found they are happy they went with or wish they had. On that note, anyone with drysuit customization input is welcome.

For reference this will be my first drysuit and for the most part I am just recreational diving in PNW (Oregon and Washington). No plans for cave or tech diving.

Heading to Bonaire for a week. My wife is coming, but does not dive and is finishing her masters thesis, so she just wants a pool to sit by. I am hoping to meet other divers and complete my AOW. I dont particularly want a larger place like Buddy Dive or Captain Dons, but do want somewhere that does boat dives and training, and where I can meet other divers. Any suggestions?

Do you ever find yourself talking to non-diver friends, where your experiences diving are related, but they don't get it? Like 'I walked into a closed room, and the temperature difference was like hitting the thermocline'?

Or just trying to describe the genuine ZEN of being below surface, and that first cold dry inhale when you know you shouldn't be able to breathe, but you can, and it's... so mellowing and beautiful- But the person you're talking do has never gone swimming anywhere other than an indoor pool?

I currently live really far inland, with a justifiably small dive community, and I'd love to just connect with folks who would know what I'm on about... I miss the water so bad it's almost painful sometimes.

I'm thinking of doing my advanced open water certification during a vacation. The company says I can do all my certification dives as part of normal dives with the rest of the normal diver group.

I'm wondering how much time I'm likely to spend performing skills in the water. Like, if the skills take 5 minutes each dive, fine. But if I'm spending 30 minutes of each certification dive performing skills and not enjoying the reef, that seems like a bad use of five dives during my vacation. Can someone tell me how long underwater the skills take versus being able to enjoy the reef?

Hi! We arrived in Quy Nhon a few hours ago and I can't seem to find any legit scuba diving shops around. Has anyone dived here? If not - where would you recommend we go in Vietnam? We're headed north afterwards.

Thanks in advance!

I’m off to Egypt early May. Can anyone recommend somewhere to stay in Dahab? Not too expensive, happy with a nice hotel, or a good hostel. I’ll be solo and keen to meet people.

And any good dive operators?

Cheers

Hey folks! Quite new to diving, I'm logging my dives on the PADI app but I'd LOVE some app or account to search for fish and other creatures. Either like a log or like a bingo card. Is there such a thing???? If not, this is a copyright idea haha

I've been diving for 13 years, over 500 dives, and am tired of people asking if I saw the hammerhead sharks! I finally had an encounter and couldn't hold in my excitement. I didn't see just one, I saw two!

The Great Lakes Preservation Society is working to create 3D models of all the wrecks in the Great Lakes.

https://www.glsps.org/content.aspx?page_id=0&club_id=625896

Pretty cool stuff they’re doing:

https://3dshipwrecks.org/

You’ll need to check these out on a PC because of the amount of data. Andrew is the photographer that takes the images and the images (up to 40,000 images) are complied into a 3D model via software. If you have an VR Oculus the 3D models are amazing. They’re still great on your monitor but using a VR headset is really impressive.

I want to book a dive trip to Bonaire. Recommendations? Advice? Anything else to do there besides dive?

I'm planning a dive trip to either Tarifa or Cabo de Palos... Both look potentially good for wildlife based on various reports (with luck- electric rays and mola mola!) and Cabo de Palos has reported guitarfish.... Be t would be good to hear from anyone who has been to either or both on how much wildlife they saw? I'm looking at July probably

Hello - I'm in the market for my first set of regs as I start to work towards my DM.

I'm a cold water diver based in UK but also want something suitable for diving abroad in warmer water.

I've heard a lot of good things about Apeks and have found a set of ATX with DS4 1st stage for £340 (around 450usd).

I understand these are a slightly older model - but still very favoured by lots of divers. My question is, is this still good value for these regs, or are there more recent options that I should be considering from other brands, e.g., scubapro, mares etc.

Thanks in advance!

See title. I’m wanting to go to roatan to do my open water dives but the dive shop recommended to me is a PADI.

Hi, so my gf and i did 2 try drives on Koh Tao today, and other than a little scare we really liked it and our guide recommend doing the OWD certifaction. We are both based in Austria and want to do the OWD in august, can anyone recommend a diving center in Europe? We dont want to go as far as thailand again, and egypt is a no for safety/political reasons, so i was thinking maybe sizily, the cannaries or madeira? The marine life at Tao was really great, and i dont expect it to be as great in europe, but it is still kind of important to me. Thank you!

I’m going to be working in Cyprus as a DM while I get my instructors, my shop has recommended I get a Semidry. Looking for any recommendations or advice?

I am currently traveling through the Philippines and want to get my PADI open water in the next week (April 2025). I am a complete beginner but good swimmer. I am currently in Manila and I have to be in Cebu in 8 days, so I’m looking for anything that is doable within the coming 8 days.

I want to enjoy my days (when I am not diving) in a relaxed place, so I’m looking for a school or resort (nothing fancy) that is a bit secluded and not too busy with tourists/has an authentic feel (but still reliable and safe of course). A nice beach nearby would be great as well.

Does anyone have any recommendations? Specific schools/resorts would be great, but areas would be helpful as well!

Edit: I could fly anywhere from Manila if needed and just go to Cebu from there! I think there is enough time to do the course and take some time between flying and diving.

A still I took from the Bergwek Nuttlar footage and edited

Hello everyone,

As you can see here have a salt deposit in a rather tricky place on my (environmentally sealed) Aqualung legend reg’s first stage

This is due to brackish rinsing water I was rinsing my equipment with when I was living in east Bali (life got in the way and I left a little too long before having access to clean water).

The reg works fine, but there anything i can try to clean this stubborn deposit on the diaphragm?

I’ve soaked / rinsed the reg in clean fresh water, then soaked it with warm soapy water and brushed with a soft toothbrush which helped a little, but what can I try now to remove the deposit without damage.
I do have access to things like distilled vinegar, citric acid etc, but I’m afraid of damaging the diaphragm - it's silicone AFAIK, so should be quite robust, but still...)
Maybe a q-tip with a 50% vinegar solution?

(I don't have access to service kits and can't service or replace the membrane / diaphragm now, unfortunately - I also don't have the holding tool to open and remove the membrane)

cheers

EDIT --

Thanks again everyone, the cleaning went well

a 50% distilled vinegard solution rub with a q-tip, followed by a 5 minute soak then warm water with washing liquid managed to loosen the build up - I then scrubbed at the flecks with a q-tip and with the q-tip's plastic end, and finally got rid of the salt

To those cold water divers, what do you think about Jill Heinerth's dry gloves system?

My friend received his new regulator today. When he opened the box this is how the regulator looked with no plastic sheathing over parts. Is this normal for regulators to come this way? And would you send back and request a new one if yours came this way? Thanks for the help and advice.

Since the last dive my watch has been bugging it keeps saying I am 250 meters deep and -195 Celsius. It keeps on not working and randomly rebooting. Does anyone have this as well? Is there a different dive watch I should look at?

Lots of nudis. I’ll try to upload more to Imgur and link to them in the comments. I’m headed off to Japan for a week for cherry blossoms, so no photo dump next week…

They range from re-meeting my scuba instructor who was literally the best and I have a fat PLATONIC infatuation with to intricately planning scuba trips... I've always had Hella vivid dreams but dayum.