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thank you. exactly what we wanted to hear. tired of reading umpteen web articles and FODORS/condenasty magazines.
have a pretty keen eye for quality dive shops. real no brainer actually, look at the equipment and if its in poor condition you have answer. same with boats. we always cruise docks early am day after landing and just check them out unbeknownst to the crews we may book a fishing charter or dive.
hopefully weather will be cool for dive days w/good viz.
best time to take pics w/or w/out strobe is 10am-2pm.
diving with (2) cameras is a pain, but even with constant anal care and unreal quality repairs at my friends shop, NIKONOSREPAIR.COM, one lousy speck of sea salt or sand can flood a housing or a camera. been there done that. and it sucks. lots of work to set up quality shot on land...........try it underwater! surge/currents/sea-life not being photogenic/goofball rookie divers coming into picture/goofball rookie divers kicking you with their fins etc.
nikonos V w/strobe is "old school" photography and each shot is never point and shoot. digital on other hand is point and shoot. pixelation sometimes in digital shots. none with 35mm. so btwn the (2) i always get shots. but if one floods...............many rums will be the order of the day.
my nikonos IV flooded off of the kona lava tubes. had some unreal natural sunlight pics of lava tubes you could drive a bus thru and some really cool fishlife. nikonos parts = porsche parts $$$$$
since we always bring our regulators and b.c.'s and basic mask snorky fins about the only fear i ever have diving is contaminated air from bad compressor. ie. oil leaks. oil in compressed air at depth becomes bad JU JU!
starting to get pumped for this. plane is booked. rooms booked. 95% already packed and just thinking about going some 3000plus miles away from home!
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