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I've got a Eon Core, main reasons I got it were the screen (I'm super short sighted so I need something big enough to read if I lose my lenses), the price (£500 with a free pod when I traded in an old computer vs. £700+ for a Perdix), and that a lot of the people I dive with use Suuntos so I...

I just got an Otter Britannic, MTM, Sitech Neck, Kubis, Pee Valve (basically the only thing I didn't do was telescopic) for £1500. Remember that they have a 15% discount if you're a BSAC member. Suit itself is really solid and was light years from my old one when I took it out last weekend...

Here's what it looks like with a computer ceiling and a Subsurface ceiling overlaid. The green is GF50/75 and the red is Suunto Fused RGBM.

Yeah, it’s definitely a US vs. UK thing, two countries divided by a common language! Sorry to be pedantic about it but I found that stuff like this really helped when I first started reading forums like this, and is probably even more useful if English isn't your first language. It's also...

This is probably a UK vs. US thing but what you’re calling a float I’d call a SMB, a marker designed to stay at the surface which you tow with a reel. What you’re calling a SMB, the sausage you inflate and shoot, I’d call a dSMB, delayed Surface Marker Buoy. I’d imagine @BlueTrin was taught the...

It sounds like you are talking about an EPIRB, uses the SARSat network to inform the local MRCC about your location. I’ve got one I use for sailing. About the size of a small VHF.

Even if the casualty is using just their suit for buoyancy and you are too you still have 3 buoyancy sources to manage, my feeling is that the complexity changes very little. In an ideal world you would be able to ignore the drysuits but you can’t really, especially with the variability of the...

The skill I most struggle with is the Controlled Buoyant Lift as BSAC call it. Lifting an “unresponsive” diver in your third Open Water dive and third time in a drysuit is hard work. It’s still tricky to manage the two drysuits and two BCs a year later.

Maybe look at SOLAS Cat C First Aid Kits? They’re what’s required in things like life rafts and for offshore racing and are a bit more comprehensive than some other kits. Some of them require proof of boat ownership due to restrictions on the purchase of some of their contents though.

I’ve been in a few times this year in Capenwray, but not as much as I’d like due to Northerners not living up to their hardy reputation and chickening out at bad weather. I think I tied with the club DO for the first dive of the year. It’s beautifully quiet at the inland sites at the moment but...

The very interesting question is going to be the financial parts of this. A PPL pilot flying a US registered aircraft under EASA’s purview has probably turned a few heads at the AAIB. There has been a special bulletin published: AAIB Special Bulletin S1/2019 on Piper PA-46-310P Malibu, N264DB...

You could stitch an extension on, use waxed sail repair twine, an awl and a sailmakers palm and you’ll get through most webbings. A normal stitch pattern to see in high load applications is a rectangle with a cross in it stitched in both directions. Onboard Sail Repairs: Techniques to Keep...

I’ve only got video of me getting it wrong unfortunately! Typical that! I’ve been using a cheap spool from simply scuba, 45m but I stripped it down to about 30m. Reel wise I’ve got a ratchet one, I’d still launch right handed with that but probably switch hands when done.

I’ve got a 6’ semi closed dsmb that I’m still learning with. The best way I’ve found of inflating so far is: 1. Get the dsmb ready, spool held securely in right hand between thumb and middle finger, dsmb held with index finger. 2. Retrieve octo from left side (note BSAC has the octo on the...

If you’re cold after a dive you shouldn’t take a hot shower or bath either, the heat will dilate your blood vessels and can drop your blood pressure enough to give you shock, it will also circulate cold blood in from the extremities which can drop your core temperature again.

As the BSAC report was being issued I was in the middle of doing my O2 course. One of the instructors had had an employee have a heart attack at work a few weeks before who was saved by the AED. It’s not just the shocks it’s the instructions for the Basic Life Support that it provided until the...

Another voice for Stugeron here, I use it a lot when sailing offshore and it’s not let me down when taken in time, ideally for a rough trip start the evening before so it’s in your system. Kwells I’ve heard of as more of a sledgehammer approach, they should in theory work when you’re already...

Vis in the Delph is fine so long at the water temperature is below 5C and there’s no one in it! Alternatively last training dive there we were struggling to see torches. Capers was a joy after that! Plus it’s always fun to go through the emergency exits on the Andover!

I’ve just gone through this, did Ocean Diver in March and finished Sports Diver on Saturday. I’d say that the level of Nitrox in Ocean Diver was pretty simple: advantages and disadvantages, calculating MOD, O2 cleaning, etc. Of course this is all on air tables / computers. Sports Diver I found...

Forgive my ignorance but wouldn’t a reduced Intermediate Pressure increase the risk of a first stage freeze up as there is a greater pressure drop? Or is this something that there is such a small risk with a proper cold water first stage that a reduced chance of a second stage freeze up is worth it?