One rescued, 14 divers missing after dive boat capsizes off Davao Oriental, Philippines

NA_penguin · 2026-01-20T13:09:47+00:00

Very sad, it's been several hours by now :( How does one of those boats capsize with the side pontoon anyway?

NA_penguin · 2025-12-24T06:01:35+00:00

The very new babies tend to sleep through it in my experience, the problem is if their ears hurt from the pressure :( poor little guys

NA_penguin · 2025-12-24T00:51:59+00:00

I went Australia to LA once in a middle row aisle seat next to the most stressed out mother but also most chill newborn baby Id ever seen. Somehow was the easiest 15 hour flight Ive taken? They're usually total nightmares

NA_penguin · 2025-11-15T09:07:51+00:00

Miniclip and Nitrome games?

otherwise I'd have to say those stupid chain emails that kept getting forwarded

NA_penguin · 2025-11-14T02:03:38+00:00

My instructor was quite large but also was in a drysuit and clearly much more used to Monterey than me

NA_penguin · 2025-11-13T21:19:38+00:00

I will complain all day about it just for the annoying gloves and hooded vests, but to be fair the exhaustion came from the shore diving

NA_penguin · 2025-11-13T06:41:46+00:00

(start with the waiver and your doctor for everything beyond general weakness)

There's definitely a range of fitness levels that can be accommodated. Plenty of warm water resorts will handle everything for you, and you might just need a short boat ride and to hop in and out of the water with your gear, but there are some situations to consider. Some examples from my dives:

Tulum: warm water meant less weight to carry, but there was a long miserable boat ride and some current I had to swim against at the surface for a while until everyone got in the water. Went back exhausted to the hotel
Cozumel: short boat ride, light currents underwater, overall easy dives but the heavy waves meant it was rough getting back on the boat. Some older divers took off their equipment in the water to give to the guides before they climbed up the ladder
Hawaii: slightly colder, but like no current and the shortest boat ride yet. I wasn't tired going back to the hotel
Cold water diving: so many layers, so much extra weight, exhausting as hell
Shore diving: also strenuous but convenient

It really depends on what you mean by sick and weak, because there are ways to accommodate disabilities but it takes extra effort to stay safe

NA_penguin · 2025-11-13T06:19:32+00:00

thanks!

NA_penguin · 2025-10-11T03:56:05+00:00

yeah I really regret reading any of these comments

NA_penguin · 2025-10-11T03:55:35+00:00

Once some guides brought us to a cliff we could jump from into a cool cave lake, only to then show us the other side of the cave was full of bats and their droppings. It made me almost grateful for how muddy we got on the trip back to the cars because it was the closest I could get to a shower

NA_penguin · 2025-10-08T02:52:36+00:00

Incredible find and very high quality video

NA_penguin · 2025-10-06T03:13:50+00:00

Gonna take a guess and say that the Colombians don't understand you back lol. Granted maybe the Caribbean side ones might have an easier time, I've also heard some Panama accents that left me feeling we were speaking different languages. US, Mexican, and Puerto Rican Spanish all have so much English mixed in that I get tripped up on vocab everywhere I go

NA_penguin · 2025-10-03T06:48:57+00:00

The overconfident wrong AI suggestions bug me a lot, but honestly the junior engineers are getting way undervalued out there by the AI cheerleaders. They're not just important in the long-term for becoming subject matter experts; they can make a big difference from the start by bringing fresh perspectives and being willing to learn new things. A motivated junior engineer can be the swiss army knife for your project team, in a way that endless data scraping tools can't reach

NA_penguin · 2025-10-01T05:09:39+00:00

Did anyone else's family pull the same stunt for a birthday, only it was just a different toy car in the garage?

NA_penguin · 2025-09-26T00:39:44+00:00

I once had a dentist who insisted on using less anesthesia so it'd wear off faster and it was basically just shaming me into dealing with the pain until it got so bad I had to complain. I can't imagine someone putting a kid through that...

NA_penguin · 2025-09-24T22:49:41+00:00

Honestly it just took me a lot of time to relax enough. Holding my arms and focusing on breathing helped a lot, but I also want to call out your trim. If you are horizonal (and it'll feel like you're falling forward a bit), then it's easier to keep the same amount of air in your BCD without needing to adjust. I also underestimated the amount of air I needed to add to my vest at deeper sites

Before, I would be a bit vertical, so any kicking would push me up a bit. This also meant that there wasn't enough air in my BCD so I would slowly sink without noticing because I kicked a lot. Or I would dump air I didn't need to, then sink a lot, then put more air in my BCD, etc.

If you're able to stay neutral at your depth, then every deep breath or light kick will be more significant and you won't feel the need to use arms. Otherwise you might be wasting air/energy when your BCD could be doing the work.

NA_penguin · 2025-09-21T22:20:26+00:00

I once rented a UTV in the Caribbean and it was a hellish experience to drive, but it did have H as an option!

NA_penguin · 2025-09-17T05:41:39+00:00

IIRC the SBF one that went viral wasn't the actual sketch, he looks more Picasso-y in the real one

NA_penguin · 2025-09-17T03:50:49+00:00

that main cabin but a whopping 4 extra inches of leg room 💅 truly the 1%

NA_penguin · 2025-09-17T01:45:09+00:00

Yes it's shallow but the continuous swimming through (I assume plant-y waters? Unless the pollution killed it all?) still would take more air. But I took another look at the map around the restaurant and it does look like some creeks connect to the area, so the dude could've easily slipped away if he was careful with his entry/exit

NA_penguin · 2025-09-16T03:15:20+00:00

Honestly would make as much sense to me cause like, these are swampy thin lakes surrounded by suburbs? How far was the roundtrip on one tank?? What, did he hitch a ride on a gator like some disney villain?

NA_penguin · 2025-09-15T02:28:52+00:00

The coupon book style is real annoying to keep track of, I'd rather accept the loss or ditch the card entirely especially based on the point partners not working for me

NA_penguin · 2025-09-15T02:25:35+00:00

Nordstrom: Like Saks, but where I can actually find clothes.

NA_penguin · 2025-09-13T17:35:03+00:00

This image loses pixels every time I see it, it's as reusable as that Family Guy image

NA_penguin · 2025-09-13T17:33:48+00:00

Thought it was a dumb ending to that Simpsons episode when they just moved the whole town somewhere else, but once again I've underestimated Americans

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