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And are the majority of those really caused by instructors and DMs losing track of students? Like I said, I'm just magnificantly lazy right now so I'm not going to actually look for any statistics, I'm just kind of curious if this is actually the case. It just really seems like there would be...

I once had to dive with a guy whose computer beeped incessantly for the duration of the dive. I have no idea have no idea why. I don't want to know why. All I know is by the end of that dive I was ready to kill or die to make it stop. The only thing that made it worse was that my every...

That doesn't seem like a hard record to break. I'm just going to log my next seven dives on stones 1.55" thick. World record here I come!

I'd venture to guess there are a whole lot more than twenty training accidents a year. I don't think we should only count the ones that result in death. I would like to find some actual stats. I'm sure there are a good percentage of training deaths in basic open water classes each year that...

True. I guess what I should have said is "If your instructor and/or DM isn't a totally brain dead moron who devoured paint chips as a child" and despite what some may say around here, there aren't that many brain dead instructors and DMs out there. :D

Honestly, if you're wearing that hat, I don't think anyone is even going to notice the strobe. :D

I think the only added value of diving nitrox is all the cool stickers you get to put on your tanks to make you look all tekkie. :D :popcorn:

I spend a decent amount of time on the topic. I make sure to describe and demonstrate several different ways to do it. My main point in my ramblings though is to emphasize the importance of equalizing early and often and that you shouldn't wait until you feel like you need to equalize to do...

I have a friend who was in a similar situation as you about two months after he got his license. Except it was a 70-some-odd year old lady who ran the stop sign and she did die in the accident. He was found not at fault since she ran the stop sign, but then in a civil suit he was found at...

I agree with NWGratefulDiver on this, you really need to support that statement. I've never heard any complaints at all about OMS. At the same time, I've heard nothing but complaints from guys I dive with who bought Halcyon when they realized they paid significantly more for gear that, yeah...

You won't catch me on a boat of any size at night without a light of some sort. Maybe I'm a bit paranoid, I don't know, but I've been that dude in the water at night, its probably one of the worst feelings in the world. At least with a light of some sort you have the small comfort of knowing...

As far as the instructor and the DM go, as long as you have a good instructor and a good DM there is always going to be a set of eyes on you. And a good DM can almost sense trouble about to happen. I'm an instructor and sometimes I play DM if a buddy needs some help. I can tell before we get...

Man overboard at night just means you have to do everything faster and better. It helps if everyone on board has a strobe or chemlight, anything they can use to signal if they go overboard. I've seen one man overboard and a couple birds full of men overboard at night. The guys, myself...

Yup, that there is your prime example of open water, recreational penetration.

Those are some good brands you mentioned, I would avoid a few of them because if you ask me they way overpriced, but trust me, the fact that a company makes gear "good enough" for the military doesn't mean its good gear or a good company. I'm not saying all military gear is bad, I'm just say a...

While it is frustrating to have something break like that, it isn't the end of the world. As has been pointed out, there is really no excuse at all for a broken power inflator being the reason you can't make it to the surface. You can manually inflate a BC pretty easily and even if for some...

Seriously people, I'm trying, but you have to help me out here.

Are you going to be making more posts about how it would be great to die while recreationally penetrating something?

I think this is the first time I've ever been 100% in agreement with Walter. Seriously I'm going to try really hard to be finished now.

Do you think if enough of us asked for it, we could get PADI to start a course so we could all become Recreational Penetration Intructors? I'm sorry, I think I'm done now.