Esox, when you are with me you don't have to worry about your English.
It's as easy for me to speak German as English.
Speaking about beer ?? You're welcome

. prosit und Gesundheit !
If you learned Russian on school you likely are/were living in the east part of Germany.
PM me when you're here and we have a beer and maybe as well some dives.
Some people here talk about diving as of being an experienced diver but don't show to have real knowledge about it.
It's for them probably only to give others the opinion that they are quite macho people who even dive (sometimes ).
I find it so curious to read everytime again that people don't really answer to questions.
I ask myself WHY ? (no, I do lie now: I have a good idea why they do so

)
I still did not read where and how often Mr. TB (or is it indeed Yabs ?) did dive in the Philippines (I asked him for it) to figure out that maybe he only dived in 1 or 2 places which were (during those 3 dives he made there) like "dirty bath tubs"

dive 30 years, of which 25 years as being a 2* CMAS instructor.
I'm not telling this to boost, but purely to say that people
may believe that
maybe I know a little bit of diving and
maybe I did dive around the world a little bit in those many years.
If other people don't come up (if asked) with their knowledge and experience of diving but only give evidence by their reactions to be 'not-yet-that experienced' than it's better not to react at all to them.
On another thread we had this discussion earlier (indeed Rhoody).
The most experienced divers are surely not divers who have a preference for only a few dive locations in the world.
I guess that that has MAYBE something to do with the differences of the many places: Ice diving is great (I tell you), wreck diving is even thrilling in bath tub dirty water like the North Sea, cave dives are unique, night dives are so special, drift dives are not only for lasy

divers ............shall I go on ?
Would like to know how much experience some have, since they talk a lot (like me now

) but give more impresssion to be novices.