Wandering,

Great pictures!! Our pictures from our August B2B are our new screen saver (including more than a few of Dominic's pictures.)

We too did our certification on the PG with Fred as our instructor. Wonderful experience.

Thanks for sharing.

HRPROF,

The ship uses Sherwood and Mares BCDs, I'm afraid I was too new to diving to take notice of the model types. As you would expect, they are all jacket models as opposed to back=inflate models. All of the regulators I saw were also Sherwood. The wet suits are all shorties (I expect they were 3mm) and are either Mares or Atlan (The Atlan fit me best). The weight belts were the standard nylon belt with weights. They just got aluminum tanks in and started diving with them instead of their steel tanks during our second week.

All the equipment seemed to be well maintained. Although we did have one BCD which had a leaking low pressure valve which kept slowing inflating my BCD at depth.

The also have console computers (which model I'm not sure). Gauges and computers are a mix of imperial and metric. Although you will not have this problem, any new(er) divers should be sure to check out prior to descending which scale their computer is in...20meters is NOT 20feet!!! We had our first "deep dive" at dive #5.

I hope this helps,

Jan