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I have used the single-piece harness totally buck naked (and I do mean naked ... check out my picture gallery) and it was perfectly comfortable. Suffice to say that I barely notice it with 14mm of neoprene on. Definitely give the standard HOG harness a try. It is a bitch to set up but once you...

For what it is worth I had to buy a new wing and went with a horseshoe instead of the donut which I had previously used. I noticed a difference in dumping immediately and it is certainly easier with a donut than with a horseshoe. The difference is minimal ... nothing worth agonising over ... but...

String and DevonDiver covered the defogging procedures very well so I'll skip that. What I will add is that even if you do spit in your mask (I'm covering spitting because it is the only defogging solution I have ever used or had contact with) you won't be guaranteed to be fog free. You have to...

Go back and read those so called testimonials. Really read them properly. Would you take gear advice from those train wrecks? I don't know whether to laugh or shake my head in sorrow when reading them.

Sorry for veering slightly off topic but the underlined section above caught my attention. Actually I am a bit surprised that no one else has mentioned it yet. Are you not defogging your mask before the dive? Or is your mask one of those stubborn ones that refuses to be defogged no matter what...

There is a size difference but unless you have an excellent memory and a sharp eye its hard to spot the difference unless the two masks are next to each other i.e. you have something to compare against. Luckily for you the Mini has "Mini Shadow" written on the skirt at the top part which...

When I go from my BP/W to a jacket BCD my trim gets ruined too. Well, not ruined, but I'm always much more tired because I have to compensate more with my body posture. It is a constant struggle to keep my feet up and me trimmed out. The point is that the 1 or 2 pounds positive buoyancy added...

What happens if you have a 40cf pony? :eyebrow:

Do yourself a favour and do a quick Google search on the Popperian philosophy of science. Like all philosophies it has some gaping holes in it but it does espouse one of the most fundamental core axioms of science: lack of data (never having had a freeflow) can never prove something, only...

I'm 23 and had my hearing tested recently and was found to have normal hearing for my age. i.e. the high frequency response of my ear is still pretty well developed. I never hear my computer's (Suunto Vytec) alarms at depth because I wear a hood. Even when I am not wearing a hood it is still...

So you take 4 sets of fins with you when you go diving? :shocked2:You must REALLY like those fins. But if you forget to take your primary set of fins, what is to stop you from forgetting your backups? I presume you pack them at the same time.

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I know exactly how you feel! Stopping 1m just below the surface and holding that without breaching like a pregnant whale is such a confidence builder. I still remember the awesome feeling I had ages ago the first time I realised I was doing it. Until that point the pressure gradient at the...

The impression that I have of it (and please remember that I haven't dived with it at all so that is all that this is: an impression) is that if you want a computer that can handle trimix, you would go with a different computer. Ones such as the X1 and VRx come to mind. A person who is diving at...

The thing is ponies don't stay full for long at all. I lose about 10 bar (~147 psi) each and every dive with mine between checking the reg is working on the surface, practicing deploying it at depth to check no hoses are trapped and purging it to get the reg off. Now mine is a 40cf pony so yours...

Ummm ... am I missing something? You can get a "best mix" with banked nitrox assuming that your "best mix" has an O2 % less than the highest mix available. All it takes is a bit of maths and the same basic theory that goes into PP blending. The only difference is that the tank still never sees...

ScubaBoard Gallery - 100th :blinking: Edit: 15 degrees Centigrade/59 degrees Fahrenheit btw ;)

I apologise for the thread hijack but the comment highlighted above scares me. At such a shallow depth you ABSOLUTELY have to worry about an uncontrolled ascent. The pressure gradient get greater the shallower you are. For instance if you ascend out of control from 33 fsw for 33 fsw the air...

You also get that warning signal if you had a fast ascent warning. So if you exceeded the 10 m/min rate 2 or 3 times (even if you weren't ascending, just raising your arm in the water column or something) it will have hammered you. That is something that is easy to miss and would account for the...

RAWalker's sig says it all Tobin. :rolleyes: