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Local shops, Germany and America. Im based near london and you can get it all over (edgeware road and so on) but anywhere big and public will rip you off, i found 2-3 local shops tiny little corner shops who sell nakhla havana and al fakher, if it advertises halal ive found they normally sell SOMETHING shisha related at least so go in and ask. For anything else such as tangiers and KM hookahs i order from john, he has the best shipping prices ive seen so far. There is a german site i have ordered form occasionally (mya hookahs and orient tobbaco) www.shisha-world.com. Goodluck, if you find anywhere good let me know. -Steve

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Yeah, there are no reputable online shops that sell anything other than herbal here in the UK anymore (at least none that i know of) bite the bullet and order from America or find a local shop (i found the key to knowing where sells shisha as a rule of thumb is if it has the word halal anywhere on the front of the shop there will be a hookah section somewhere even if you have to ask for it, with exceptions of course). -Steve

that isnt nour coal at least not a type ive seen i have 10 KG of it in front of me =/ i really have no clue who makes it but the low amount of surface area touching the foil at once would really suck, best bet is to go to the shop she bought it from and see

Egyptian bowls and phunnels i agree are EQUAL some brands smoke well in one and the rest in the other.

ive had mint, strawberry, mixed fruit, cherry and mandarin in a can several times, all very good, but they are good from a box too (mixed fruit was the exception but we all know how bad it is) 250g all of them

I havent read the whole thread im short on time but i read the OP I underwent major surgery infact an 8 hour operation to have a metal plate in my face, the surgery even went through my mouth (the roof was cut away) i gave it 48 hours and then smoked there were no issues and i currently work on the NHS so im pretty well informed (nhs is national health service) That said nicotine does slow the healing process but i wouldnt worry too much Steve

Never give up NEVER!

Being honest what i like from a vendor now is participation, i know any vendor who will spend time here is not usually going to screw me. This used to be MN hookah before tarik and ramsey got very busy and now it is john (about to pm you ) i like the personal touch much more than freebies Steve

Almost. im a uk diver we go much much deeper than in the US erm we can dive here down to 50 meters on our insurance qualifacation depenant. the depth you can go on a mix varies on the partial pressure you work to, 1.2 1.4 and 1.6 are the most common, 1.2 being uk standard 1.4 commercial diving and 1.6 being military in some countries (some go as high as 1.8 and 2.0) this is all based on oxygen becoming toxic at depth depening on the mix. working on a PP of 1.4 you take the % mix you are using (21% is standard, higher oxygen % is called nitrox and lower is called trimix or heliox which uses helium) here i assume 21% so take 1.4 and divide it by 0.21 which gives you 6.6 bar which we can convert to be depth in meters at around 56M meaning using a 1.4 PP and a 21% gas mix the maximum depth you can go without risking oxygen toxicity is 56M now doing the same but with a 36% oxygen mix of trimix we have 1.4 divided by 0.36 which gives us 3.8 bar which we convert to 28M only, so you see the higher % oxygen the shallower you can go. going deeper means the use of trimix or heliox which i wont go into here. also to take into account is nitrogen narcosis which we call being narced and is the same feeling as being drunk but underwater no long term damage, and decompression stops depending on the mix depth time blah blah blah to allow nitrogen bubbles to leave your blood stream and avoid DCI but that is even more complicated maths which ill only go into on request. Back to rebreathers, on cylinders you choose your mix or mixes with multiple cylinders however rebreathers adapt the mix to the PERFECT one for whichever depth you are at depending on what PP you set, so you can go just as deep on a rebreather as a cylinder however there is much more to go wrong and your buddy if you have one cannot breath from your equipment in a life or death situation as they can on a cylinder. Max depth on cylinders i beleive was around 318 meters by nuno gomez and this was using 6 clinders on the back 2 side slung and many on ropes on the way up, along with over 12 hours of decompression stops. max depth hit on a rebreather i beleive was on a cave dive by a man named dave shaw at 282m who actually died during the dive (google his name its an incredible but sad story and his last moments from his own camera are on youtube for divers education on what went wrong) so the depths between the two are not very different however clyinders take up more space but they offer backup for your buddy and redundency for you sorry to thread jack i really love my diving, if you want anymore information on nitrogen narcosis other gas mixtures decompression or decompression sickness and so on please feel free to pm me or start a general discussion topic and link me in pm i would love to answer your questions Steve

Haha im a qualified diver and ive looked at these things many times. There are 3 ways to get breathing gasses under the water: Cylinder (tank) which can come in 10 12 and 15 litre size with 5 and 7 litre "pony" cylinders which are often for backup or they can be used two at a time using an adapted backplate for your BCD as a twinset. They are usually 200 bar or 300 bar which multiplied by the litres tells you how much air is in it. Rebreathers i call these yellow boxes of death, they contain micro cylinders and many chemicals for scubbing CO2 and as you breath the air is "recycled" these things dont release many bubbles like cylinders do, they can change to the optimum mix for your depth and so on however they have many many many dangers BAD THINGS The third can be known as a hookah and is a device which often is on a boat or floats and provides air down to the divers (often multiple) these are only used in very shallow depths and often just for people to try diving . Probably more detail than people wanted but i love my sports Steve

Hope ya didnt take offense mate and focus on my opinion of you now and not then, but i do like to be honest

I have to agree with nights, when he was new here i really honestly did not like him but he took his ban, he read the rules and now i have to say mate your a good contributing member good on ya. would this of happened if he had no idea why he was banned? maybe not, the ban thread helped him realise a mistake and we all make mistakes, ill be damned if i dont make plenty

we dont get anything really special over here however nakhla packed correctly will totally knock you off your feet if you want buzz and get one from starbuzz my advise, order some tang from john in the states

i live IN kingston, my current place is just by fairfield park and my new place is a flat in norbiton hall opposite the asda