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Jesus.. Mike is telling you guys how the system works and you are hanging sh*t on him for it? I've never met Mike, never set foot in his store and never dived with him (hell, I don't even live in the same country). But from reading his posts on this board and others for the last few years...

I have a G2, but found it cheaper to buy an S50 and canon housing to go with it (only rated to 100ft though). Canon don't make a housing for the G2 and the Ikelite housing is over $800 last I checked.

That sounds pretty cool and I wish I could have done that when I was learning. However I was told that I couldn't go in the pool by myself until I was fully certified. And even when I was fully certified, if I was on a course I couldn't get into the pool until a safety-diver (at least Rescue...

Some people have said to me with a straight face that VPM and RGBM are untested so they won't dive them - and these deco models would have millions of dives on them. USN tables probably have over a billion dives since they were first formulated. I agree everyone should know how to use the...

Deco on-the-fly is still susceptable to human error. Also, it hasn't been tested. Okay, GI3 et. al. may have made hundreds if not thousands of dives using this method and it obviously works for them. However millions of dives are conducted every year on the USN tables, which are what most...

I don't know the theory behind it, but I do know that when I've done a decompression dive and used 50% or higher deco gas, I feel HEAPS better. In fact, I usually feel much better getting out of the water than I did getting in!. For me, it also cures my seasickness... in fact I usually feel...

You actually know George Carlin? He was f***ing funny in Jay & Bob strike back.

.. And that exact same argument can be applied to the tables. After all, the computer algorithms are just derived from the tables. The fact remains that computers give you more bottom time because they are calculating your dive, not a square profile. What happens if your narked and...

I have a uwatec smart com. It's the only spg I use when diving. I love it because it will work out my SAC rate automatically and accurately :) Am I worried about it dieing on me on a dive? Not really. Mechanical SPG's die too. And as far as the N2 loading and O2 exposure in case the...

Sounds good, but don't the little buggers run real quick when you try to catch them? Note: I'm Australian, so I'm legally allowed to make jokes like this one.

You can't use swimming goggles because you can't clear them. Once you put them on underwater, then what? You will still have water trapped between your eyes and the glass.

I'm crap at breath holding. I should really practice alot more, because it could be useful one day but just haven't got around to it yet. Anyway, I did an accelerated course. 1 day to finish all the pool work. 1 evening for the theory + test (cant remember how many I got wrong, but Im...

This sort of dive is quite difficult... Not so much the depth, but the depth combined with a long bottom time (60min) and penetration. v-planner gives me around 2 hours deco using 50% & 100% and 18/45 bottom gas. Your problem will be bottom gas though. You will need at least twin 12's...

Thats interesting - since deep air is grounds for excommunication. Do they have helium there yet? because their website says no, but the website of one of their agents says yes.

ain't that the truth! I remember having to ride my motorbike in Melbourne out to some eastern suburb (can't remember where) to pick up a harddisk around 4 years ago. It was 42.5 degrees C. I was in full leathers, boots, gloves and helmet. The road was so hot that my foot was burning through...

My wife and I went to the GBR in early Jan this year. Vis was great, sea was calm, except for one day where I got seasick - but I'm very prone to get seasick. There was no wind when we were there. There was a no-swimming warning for shore based swimming because of jellyfish, but there was...

sounds like you discovered yorkshire divers.. :) What if the 1st stage on your 15l freezes? You can argue it either way, but I tend to agree that a pony is a half hearted solution and a twinset is the way forward. Having said that though, it's better than nothing in a pinch. Most UK dives...

don't you mean before? or do you analyse the mix through your reg or something? just curious... agreed.

Mine gets used on almost every dive. We get dropped onto the wreck from a moving boat. We then descend, do the dive and deploy from the bottom (if >40m) or ascend to around 20m and deploy midwater (Also first gas switch onto 50% if carrying stages). We then ascend on the line, doing deco...

I didn't criticize it. I only said it isn't needed. I can only see one in GI3's pocket (http://www.wkpp.org/images/pina_equip/right_pocket_contents2_r.jpeg), so I can only assume he only takes one. Since I think we can all agree George is a DIR diver, we can probably assume it's DIR to carry...