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AI - depends who you ask. We love AI resorts, including on Cozumel. The Cozumel Palace is our favorite 5-star resort on Cozumel. It's right downtown, if you decide to walk around and maybe eat somewhere else. We always dive with Aldora Divers, but there is an in house dive shop as well. The boat...

Let me clarify. I'm not saying this is the reality, I am saying this is a common perception. If you think otherwise, then I'd point you back to the OP, in which there is a clearly stated perception that DIR and Halcyon go hand-in-hand.

You mean, like the person who posted stating that they didn't know what DIR meant? I get it. There's no point in actually educating people, or using words correctly. May I mumble dogface to the banana patch?

DIR is a philosophy of minimalist equipment, streamlined, cooperative diving. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doing_It_Right_(scuba_diving)

Yes, I am serious. Halcyon gear is closely associated (some would imply mandatory) for GUE-trained divers. But DIR is a philosophy, and there's no brand specified. While I believe all GUE divers ascribe to the concept of DIR, not all DIR divers are GUE trained.

Logo? What do logos have to do with anything? I think perhaps you're confusing DIR (a philosophy of diving) with GUE or UTD, which sometimes go way beyond the simple philosophy of DIR.

I agree. If "all the straps and buckles on [your] BCD" are dangling 24" from your body, then you have other issues to worry about beyond the camera.

[Deleted - there was a quoting error] ---------- Post added October 28th, 2015 at 07:24 PM ---------- Piffle. Your brain is your life support. Gear is just a tool kit. If you've been properly trained, there is absolutely no reason to think of gear as life support. Assuming you're diving...

Cozumel. Our pattern is Cozumel, go someplace else. Go back to Cozumel. Go someplace else. Go back to Cozumel... We've been to Cozumel probably a dozen times so far and it's always wonderful. The only other place to which we return at all regularly is Cancun (which we mostly do when I want to...

What was asked was why a higher SAC rate does not equal a lower NDL.

So by your logic, the harness, backplate, wing, butt bag, crotch strap, weight pockets, STA, cam bands, DSMB, knife, backup lights, primary light, etc etc etc are all "integrated", since, like the weight pockets, they're things you purchase and put together. To my way of thinking, it has to be...

You can add pockets to any BP/W (I've got a couple Dive Rite pockets for mine). But they're not really integrated. The modular design of a BP/W makes "integrated" an oxymoron.

Shearwater Petrel 2 to replace a Nitek Q that died after getting a few drops of water through the USB port plug. When I bought the Nitek, I wondered how dry the socket would remain, since the plug has only 1/8 of a turn to secure it. Turns out it doesn't stay dry well at all.

Name one? As I said, I don't claim to be intimately familiar with all makes and models, but I have yet to find any modern weight integrated BCDs that don't have two non-ditchable pockets up by the shoulders and two ditchable by the waist. I wouldn't be shocked to hear they exist, but they...

Why would you be? All of the integrated weight BCDs I am familiar with have 4 pockets. Two on the shoulders, and two "ditch-able" at the waist. Do you need 2lbs? 1lb on either side. Losing one isn't going to be any big deal. Do you need 4lbs? Put 1lb in each pocket. Losing 1lb isn't going to...

What is your concern about buying a used BCD? First BCD I ever owned was a SeaQuest Balance that I bought from the marketplace here. I paired it with a set of ScubaPro regs that I bought new. About 250-300 dives later, I sold it to a friend. He's still using it nearly three years later. The only...

I certainly hope your GoPro never gets tangled in anything. Because you're sure not going to be able to cut that.

Sure it does. The tabs sticking out of the bottom of the case have a hole through them. Thread the line through there.

Make a lanyard out of cave line or bungee cord and loop it over your wrist. Problem solved. Cost: Maybe 3 cents?

So the problem was: 1 - A weak retention system (Velcro alone). 2 - Operator error (pulling the Velcro loose instead of/as well as the zipper). 3 - Over-weighting/weight distribution (Sue and Kim both have 4 weight pockets on their BCs; loosing 25% of their weight wouldn't cause them to have an...