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It was a 13, and it is now SOLD. Sorry!

Keeping my regs, one set of fins, &c. Don’t worry! But I am simply not getting enough Tobermory time to justify owning my own dry suit, and if someone can buy it for cheap and get some dives in, the world will be a better place! When you come up here, I’ll rent a suit for the weekend...

Amazingly warm, one-piece garment, perfect for NE, PNW, Tobermory, NFLD, and other cold-water diving destinations. Fits under a Fusion or standard dry suit. Worn one trip only, in near-mint condition. MSRP $469, in stores for as little as $400, my SB price is just $200 + S&H. Location...

For dry suit inflation (obviously): VIP October 2008. Location: Toronto, Canada. I accept cash and PayPal. S&H approximately $25 anywhere in N.A.

One L/XL suit, I have a thin neck and thin wrists, so you may not need a new seal. I’m including the bag, a pair of XL gloves, and a pair of size 12 boots (sans laces for some weird reason). Fewer than twenty dives, alas, which is why I’m selling it. Location: Toronto, Canada. I accept cash and...

You have a backplate. You dive with a single tank. Even with the plate, you need more than twelve pounds of weight. You want to dive with nicer trim. You need this STA: It is filled with “heavy metal” and weighs a full twelve pounds, which means twelve fewer pounds on your belt without needing...

Well I don't dive back mounted doubles (so why the h--- am I replying to a question about back mounted doubles in the SM forum? :no:), but when I started working on valve access for my single I found the following trick incredibly useful. If it helps you, great. What I did was, I always left...

Try the 30/30/30 rule: Thirty minutes at thirty metres on 30% O2.

Shirley you jest? I was taught to take the octopus from where it is hidden inside my BCD's pocket, point the mouthpiece, and press the purge button. No need to remove the primary second stage from my mouth. I also baby goat.

I don't understand this reasoning. I am diving at 100'. I am checking my gauges, plural. I see that my redundant air supply is showing empty. How did that happen? Is the regulator leaking? Did water get into my paintball gauge and it is failing? I don't care, I thumb the dive and figure it out...

The LDS is full of the most buoyant fecal deposits! Buying ankle weights is a waste of money. What you want to do is come up to Ontario where the law prohibits the removal of artifacts from shipwrecks. Bring your East Coat Wrecker crowbars and help yourself to some souvenirs. Our local...

I doubt the sample sizes we have for RB and Deep Air fatalities are large enough to be statistically significant, even when they agree with my prejudices. Once you try to normalize for other factors, you are left with what amounts to anecdotal evidence. As noted above, you really should...

Sorry, my question was not clear. I wasn't asking why use a long hose for air sharing, I use one and love it for many, many reasons. I was actually asking why one plans for sharing air at all when each member of a team carries redundant air for themselves. When diving singles in open water, I...

Everything we carry has a cost. The long hose seems pretty low-impact, but there does seem to be some interaction with other choices, for example one discipline of diving holds that all bottles should be carried on the left to keep the long hose free. Today, I'm asking about the pros. I'm not...

I'm ok with agreeing that it's a stupid question, I was not joking when I said it was stupid. That being said, I don't have any particular difficulty asking stupid questions, as long as they are not inappropriate. For example, asking certain types of questions in the DIR forum is trolling and...

Wait, I know the answer to this one without looking it up. What are "The United States of America and Liberia?"

Ah yes, if he's a banker his heart would have atrophied and he would have avarice in his veins instead of hemoglobin. Got it.

So from my first stupid question, I gather that diving thirds or even more conservatively is all about unexpected things that delay a return to the exit in an overhead environment like silting out, getting lost, that kind of thing. Several people commented that the likelihood if a team member...

The new record in breath-holding recently went to a Swiss man who didn't breathe for nearly 20 minutes. Scientists explain how he did it.

Great post, thanks. The only thing I'd question is whether Ratio Deco ("RD") necessarily implies Deco On The Fly ("DOTF"). I'd say that Ratio Deco uses a number of simplifying principles such that DOTF becomes possible, and then there is some larger set of practices such as certain flavours of...