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As someone who is an officer in the fire service and is also marine firefighter qualified I can confidently say that most liveaboards I've seen have a lot of highly combustible furnishings etc in them. A liveaboard with a steel hull and superstructure is slightly better than some other construction types, but as a rough guess I would say that if a fire on a liveaboard isn't extinguished in the first 60 seconds then it will be beyond the capabilities of the crew and firefighting equipment onboard to extinguish.

You certainly live in a good location to obtain all sorts of underwater photography bits and pieces!

Back 30 years ago there wasn't a lot of doodads or doohickeys around! I remember how excited I was when Sea&Sea released the little bracket for MMII that you could mount extra lenses onto that attached to an arm!

Many thanks - will check them out!

If using an oddball wide angle lens that doesn't appear in the Nauticam tables, is there a method to work out where the dome port should sit in relation to the front of the lens? (to enable me to work out what extension rings I should fit?). Hopefully there is a method that gets at least close so as I don't have to do too much trial and error!

Many thanks for this great thread - it is very helpful, hopefully you will get the chance to update the tables sometime too.

Many thanks - I will check that thread out! The Weefine sounds like it will work fine!

I normally dive on a rebreather, and now that I am getting back into underwater photography I'm looking for a monitor that has a really long battery life to add to the Nauticam housing that I recently picked up secondhand so as the monitor will last as long as the rebreather. What are the options for monitors that last longer than 2 hours? And what else do I need to know about monitors when selecting one? Are there any articles or dummies guides to selecting a monitor?

Just starting to get back into U/W photo after a 30 year break - seems like everyone needs a lot more cables and doodads and doohickeys now!