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Your statement is ambiguous. It can be interpreted to suggest that appearances always matter and matter to everyone. It can also be construed to mean that some appearances matter some of the time to some people. In this specific case, we are talking about whether dreadlocks matter to the OP when...

Now that we're hitting page twenty-eight it might be simpler to check into a padded room... :popcorn:

Well my first answer is probably well off-topic, but in my industry (software development), we hire the best people we can. One of my colleagues has dreadlocks. If we ever hired the second-best person because we didn't like the look of the best person, we would be sending a signal to everyone...

Well, the out-of-air swim was not part of OW or AOW, it was part of a course dealing with certain aspects of deep NDL diving offered by IANTD. IIRC, you have to demonstrate that you can swim underwater a certain distance to pass PADI OW, but I do not recall practicing swimming in full gear on...

My understanding is that buoyancy control is far more challenging with a rebreather because you can't use your lung volume to control your buoyancy. This may, of course, double underscore your point that you should not venture outside of a pool with a rebreather without the necessary skills...

First off, "I'm from Barcelona. I know nothing!" So I'm writing the following as a way of working out my own thoughts and hopefully getting corrected on anything I misunderstand. A "Closed Circuit Rebreather" or CCR has a bottle of pure oxygen, a bottle of diluent, and some sort of system for...

Great post, I wish I'd read this as part of my OW training. Amongst other things, it would have helped me to understand the 60' limit for OW divers. It appears that you are addressing a CESA as the only alternative to carrying redundant air. This makes a certain amount of sense when discussing...

Is this him? here's a better shot of his shirt:

Incredibly unhelpful pseudo-philosophical pretentious quote for reflection:

NVM. This thread has reached rock bottom and begun to dig. I'm plonking it.

I don't fully understand the case for handing off a pony. If either of you are on the pony, the dive is over. Why hand it off? From the smug vantage point of my arm chair, a long hose as you suggest seems like the simplest thing. Have a long hose on your back gas and necklace the pony regulator...

Let me see if I have this right. You are doing a dive that would normally be considered a no-deco dive. You are taking a very small tank of EAN50. It has two uses: First, you use it as emergency gas should you need it. Second, you use breathe it on your ascent to scrub off nitrogen. Is that...

I'm sorry, but you are quoting the author's advice out of context. The story concerns a diver who had a fully functioning first stage, a fully-functioning octopus, and could also have breathed off his second stage without the comfort of a mouthpiece had he determined the cause of the problem...

SPEAKING OF RELYING ON A HIGHER POWER... A new diver--I will call him Reg--goes on a vacation with some Scubaboarders. The first one he meets offers to give him a free refresher in PADI procedures like performing a CESA. "No thank you, I have faith that the Lord will protect me from harm," he...

A diver who thinks they're always going to get it right and therefore needs no redundancy in their gear is a victim of a logical fallacy, a false dichotomy. This is also true of a diver who thinks they won't always get it right and therefore needs redundancy in their gear. To make a long...

Boesmansgat

Do you really think that a diver who goes OOG because they do not plan the gas consumption of their dive AND does not watch their gauge AND who is on a dive without a buddy who is checking gas AND who is on a dive without a DM or guide who asks about gas is going to escape Darwin's Law forever...

My 2psi from the vantage point of my comfy and dry couch: The third second stage definitely complicates things: You need to have rock bottom in your back gas AND half of rock bottom in your pony. If you only reserve half of your rock bottom in your back gas, you run the risk of going OOG twice...

Is there a bounty for Crown of Thorns Starfish as well?

Are Lionfish somehow violating the natural ebb and flow of predator/prey cycles? Are we too impatient to wait for a parasite or top predator to figure out how to prey on Lionfish? Or is it perhaps that our new economic overlords are eating the fins of the Lionfish's natural predator? IOW, why...