Off there next Thursday for a fortnight. Any experience, comments good
or bad about the dive centre that I believe is in Laganas?
tia
Derek

I was unfortunate enough to perforate my eardrum recently. Quite an
interesting experience as there wasn't much pain at the time and I
didn't force clearing, and it happened at about 30 metres (I thought
most problems happened in the first 10 metres or so). I never had had

We are booked on a Liveaboard, (Asmaa, from Marsa Alam - St. Johns), on
Thursday, and my other half is having problems equalizing. Looks like
congestion in the E. Tubes, and she has tried all kinds of things to
clear them, including steroids.

All,
Given Jason's post and other discussion, who fancies doing what diving with
the UKRS crew next year?
Jason already has boat bookings for next year out of Weymouth, I'm

Does anybody know what kind of fish is this?
The photo was taken in Chalkidiki, Greece at -12m.
http://www.theabyss.gr/gallery/displayimage.php?album=79&pos=9

We enjoyed diving in Bonaire last Christmas as we could dive on our own
and take time over photos, rather than having to keep with the group on
a guided dive.
We're both sports divers with 80 dives under our weight belts.

Does anyone know of a website that has a database of inland dive
locations within the UK?

I came across this story on the BBC website a few days ago (but this is the
first chance I've had to post)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4144366.stm
A 68 year old diver got bent in Marsa Alam having dived to 49.5m, but his

'cos I did!
For various reasons (some health related) I've not actually been diving
this year until today, and what a fantastic day I picked to get back
into the water again!

Yet another thing to beware of!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4192566.stm
Chris Q

Am looking at one of these hotels for a one week break in October.
Movenpick looks like a nicer hotel but diving more varied at Shams
Alam. Anyone had good/bad experiences of either hotel and the attached
diving centres? Thanks, T

I've been forced to replace my computer.  I bought a Nexus quite
a while ago, because at the time they seemed pretty cheap
compared with other Nitrox computers that were on offer in the
place I was shopping.  Since I bought it I've used its two mix

I look after the diving newsfeeds for ukdivers.net and just lately (i.
e. this season) there seems to be a awful lot more fatal diving
incidents. Are we getting too adventurous or too complacent, or is
this the norm?

I am happy to announce
LogVyper V 1.0
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/rch47/LogVyper
This Linux software reads out Suunto dive computers of the Vyper

Once again equipment failure question.
Background: On the weekend of the 19th -21st of August I did five
dives, these were the first dives in a month.
The first four were trial dives with inexperienced divers, the maximum