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This is not really a problem because it didn't cause an incident. Sure it costs them more money than if they'd just taken it to the shop to begin with, but its no reason not to try service your own gear. This is what I'm interested in. I wonder how many of these would have been resolved...

Interesting. Do you know what was wrong and why it wasn't apparent until you were at 60ft? What tests could have been done post service to catch it?

I was servicing my regulators the other day and at the bottom of every page in the service manual is a full paragraph repeating the same lecture about how untrained divers should never attempt to service their equipment, its a great way to die, your an idiot if you try etc etc. Is there any...

Fair enough

The air diluent thing has been banded around a lot despite no evidence to support it. They never state what gas they were on in the video.

Well, good on DAN for looking into this incident, accepting the mistakes that they made and making the necessary adjustments to improve. Also, good on Dive Talk for raising the issues in a manner that gets them sorted quickly. I doubt that DAN would have resolved their SOPs so quickly if it was...

Maybe completely eliminate the Mouthpiece by removing it entirely and going for a dive without one. I'm pretty sure Vance Harlow has a test for wet breathing where you rotate the reg upside down and see what happens. Can't remember exactly what that tell you though. I'll try look it up.

The $18K "admission" sounds like a classic Gringo stitch up to me. Here's a desperate rich white American. Let's milk him for all we can

For all you witch hunting folks focusing on the restriction, you understand that the incident didn't actually occur IN the restriction right? The restriction potentially had absolutely nothing to do with it.

This is a dive incident that has the potential for the community to learn from so I disagree that the video was too long. Woody didn't go out and decide to get bent that day, nor did he decide that he wanted to make an incident worse. As Gareth Lock teaches, we need to understand why the...

Where was it in the video that they said they were using air dill?

Can we keep this thread about the accident itself and have the DAN discussion on the other thread? There is a talk available online somewhere from Dr Doolette. He suggests the dehydration is much less of a factor in DCS than we originally thought.

I tried to reproduce his dive as best I could on Subsurface. Using the picture of his dive log, him saying that he has about 70 minutes deco, that his stops were at 40,30,20ft and that he stayed at 1.2bars PO2. ( I don't dive CC so this is the first time trying to plan a CC dive though...) I...

I would like to see a bit of a round table discussion with a few experts (Doug Ebersole, Simon mitchell, David Doolette) on the pros and cons of in water recompression treatment immediately post dive. Would also like to know if Woodie has been check for a PFO. I note he uses GF 40/70 which is...

I'd be happy teaching and diving to nitrox AOW level. It'd take more than 5 dives for each "level" I would teach the skills for cave and DP but wouldn't do the dives until qualified.

This coming weekend a friend and I will be diving off a small 3.2m (10ft) aluminum dingy. There's some "small boat" threads already but most of the discussion is about inflatables. Looking to see if any specific advice out there for entry and exit techniques etc. I figure we'll be going over...

Do it now. You'll learn lots of good stuff Pretty sure it can also be taken on a single tank with a Y or H valve?

Its still pretty cold here in October. A good quality 7mm is needed. There are some wrecks around (HMNZS Canterbury, Rainbow warrior) that are shallow and get a lot of inexperienced divers on them.

Thanks. Not my experience. However I've edited my post somewhat.

Another vote for mares puc pro. I used one for years. It's exactly what you've asked for with price and I always seemed to have plenty of time left on my NDL when other people were getting close (no idea what they were running).