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Scuba Specialities, Tres Aguas, and AZ Divers are all within a couple miles of your workplace. Sport Chalet is the closest shop to your house. Look at the "Arizona LDS" sticky for addresses. AZ Divers isn't on that list yet, but its address is on the "News about Oasis" thread.

The lift bag rigging is one of two open water presentations a candidate must conduct. The open water presentations can be drawn from OW, AOW, and Rescue courses.

Not only can you teach it, but Emergency First Response, Inc. (a.k.a. PADI) also actively encourages its instructors to teach the EFR course to nondivers and provides marketing support directed at a nondiver audience.

People are always going to the lake, particularly in the summer. If you post on the "Diving Lake Pleasant" stickied thread a couple days in advance, you'll be sure to have some people to meet at the lake.

Grog's Scouting Knots Index There ya go, yutz boy. :D Every knot you need to know--step by step and nicely animated. If a Boy Scout can learn it, you can, too.

I'm usually good for weekday dives. On Monday I'll see if I can get a matter settled, and that will clear up my Thursday morning.

The issue isn't how friendly you are with the divers you take out on the boat--it's how friendly you are with their survivors.

For recreational depths and time, the different models produce reasonably similar results-- the RGBM, for instance, closely tracks the U.S. Navy table within recreational depths and times. If you wish to understand the intricacies of each model, you'll need to do some fairly heavy reading...

I'm suppressing the urge to channel GI3. After experiencing a loss of gas, exit single-file from a narrow, silted out cave or wreck when the only guide out is your reel. Add a few stage and deco bottles to your list of things to manage. Then ask the question again if the reasons for a...

That's from outdoor humorist Patrick McManus. I believe you can find the article "Summer Reading" in his book "Nude with Other Wildlife." If you're an outdoorsman, you'll probably like the rest of his material. Simple humor, but funny.

I'll respond with something clarifying one of your unanswered questions based on what I understand. The simplest answer is: the bubble did cross to the arterial side when it was small. But you're looking at the wrong bubble, which is why you never understood the explanation given. A...

Try doing the swims on different days. You'll perform better.

It's not necessarily a lack of student buoyancy control or situational awareness that underlies my position. I fully expect to have trained my students well enough that they can stay off the bottom and know what's going on around them. The issues are compliance with PADI standards, the...

When I'm considering a training site, I prefer to have the seafloor at the maximum depth for the dive. That way, your students can only go deeper if they bring a shovel. I would take Walter's advice on the alternate dive site.

Not wishing to sound too harsh, but if you have to ask this question you don't have the training necessary to plan the dive. I assume you're taking the PADI AOW course and the dive in question is your "deep adventure dive." It also appears that your instructor plans to exceed 100 feet on the...

I was down at the law library while reading the thread, so I hit the books. My knee-jerk reaction was identical to yours, so I was quite surprised to find that the common law has been modified in merry old England. I was kind of hoping that Alex777 would chime in on the topic since he's more...

Surprisingly, the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 (U.K.) does invalidate waivers of negligence that results in personal injury or death. Waivers of negligence resulting in something other than personal injury or death are subject to a "reasonableness" inquiry. But the bad news for the...

Diving physiology, decompression theory, gas planning, frog kicks in jets AND splits, drysuit, doublesn nitrox (then took the class), and probably a bunch more stuff I can't think of at the moment. Posted via Mobile Device

That is correct.

I hope his "access" drops us near the old site. We might also want to chip in for a case of some cold frothy stuff for Chris.