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I totally understand your rational, but since divers new to drysuits might come across this thread I just want to point out that a reason to keep seals in place is if one has plans to conduct multiple dives. If a glove is found to be compromised on the first dive, the glove can be replaced...

If you just want to splash and gain drysuit experience and don't want the hassle of cleaning salt water off all your gear, Heart Lake in the center of Fidalgo island has a nice beach to enter from...not much to see in the water but a good safe spot to get some time underwater in your drysuit. It...

Check for a tailor, shoe repair, or saddle repair shop in your area....explain to them they need to move the internal bladder away from the repair area if your DSS wing does not have a zipper that would enable the bladder to be removed (some models did and some did not). They should be able sew...

If upon inspection you find the o-ring is dirty, then clean and relube it with silicone grease....just a tiny amount so the o-ring is shiny, no excess glooping everything up. The o-ring on the blue retention ring is fairly well protected from contamination given how it is sandwiched in there so...

Unless you have a dive torch that is required to be filled with silicone grease (unlikely), then the silicone grease does not seal your torch, the o-rings do. The grease lubricates the o-rings so they suffer less wear and tear when opening/closing the o-ring sealed chamber. Could it be...

Are you eating/drinking a lot of mango while in Fiji? I know it is a common fruit there. Mango contains urushiol, the same oily substance that causes skin reaction with poison ivy/poison oak/poison sumac. The skin of the mango, sap from the tree, leaves, and even the fruit can cause a reaction...

Looks a bit like contact dermatitis or mild case of poison ivy (or similar plant). Perhaps sensitivity to detergent used to wash the bed sheets. Perhaps someone else made contact with urishiol oil (found in poison ivy type plants) and got it on a surface you subsequently made contact with...

As a "rule of thumb", if when you have your bootied feet in your fins, with your straps on your heels and you pick up a foot and shake/pivot it from side to side, if the fin moves around your foot then it is too big. Obviously with an unrestricted budget of time and money, one could order...

Just another thing that might be helpful if it applies: I earned my DM cert while living in Belgium. My instructor gave me a holographic sticker from the training package he purchased for me. He told me to safegaurd the sticker until we completed all training. When all requirements were met...

The boat operator is obligated to you and should reimburse you, and then since the other patron was the cause, the boat operator should seek reimbursement through them and/or their insurance if they so desire. It's kind of like a multi-vehicle collision where you are hit from behind and pushed...

Here is a cut and past from email correspondence between me and one of PADI headquarters' regional training consultants from a discussion we had about me thinking about letting my DM cert lapse: "A one to two year gap: no remediation required. 3-5 year gap: To activate Teaching status, you...

I think I have an email directly from PADI about this. I am currently traveling so I will see if I can dig it up if I have a spare moment later today. -Z

You would need to recertify to establish professional membership as a PADI Pro as even if you were officially certified you were inactive and did not pay membership dues for 10 years which means your cert is well lapsed and out of date. Reading between the lines, you never paid anual membership...

Dive computers with a standby/sleep mode, or divert to a time/date screen (wrist watch mode) will often "wake up" when they sense they are wet, but dive mode is typically not activated until submerged below a specific nominal depth...usually just a bit past 1 meter. -Z

I was going to see if I could make that shark eating a diver video, but it turns out that Flow is a subscription based google service. They are currently offering 1-month for free, but I had little desire to plug in my credit card or paypal info to play with it just to have to figure out how to...

I really do think that is the best choice...and digging them out was no problem as it gave me an excuse to go through our dive equipment and sort it into bins for each person in our family, which is something I had been meaning to do since we moved back to the US in 2021. My daughters are in...

Oh, come on now!?!?! :troll::wink: -Z

Just dug out the bin it has been residing in and saddly the boot for my daughter's Air2 and my VyperAir have both succombed to the ravages of time/age and are nothing but broken pieces. However, I do have 3 boots from regular Vyper computers that look like the picture below. As depicted, unlike...

Often due to insurance requirements, many dive shops/dive ops require AOW certification for divers to participate in dives that go deeper than the training limits established for OW courses of instruction (18M/60FT). Because of the above insurance imposed depth restriction, it is often...

Local libraries are a good source to check if they do 3d printing. The one in our town charges 7 cents per gram of filament, and usually takes only a couple of days to do the print after sending them the necessary file(s). -Z