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A few more products A cashmere stocking cap is great for after the dive if it’s chilly and also for bed head when camping… I love the sling bags for essentials when I do not want a purse. I buy cheap sunnies with readers from Amazon and they stay on my head because they are so lightweight...

Outdoor Research in Seattle makes the best windbreaker hoodie (teal) called the Whirlwind. The technical fabrics pack so small! These kimonos are on Amazon and pack small. I’m always not feeling right if I don’t have my own robe amd for slippers I use the shortest Uggs because I find them...

I’ve always had two wetsuits so I have a dry one for the second dive 😂 I’m a fan of the Henderson hooded vest, Hawaii 9 years and it’s not that warm. Sometimes I take a thermos of hot water and pour it in my wetsuit after my first night dive and the cells hold the water pretty long! I use...

I wonder because I’m not a serious road bike cyclist and I go to the bike forums to ask about things. Pedals, dog trailers etc We are not serious off-roaders but we go on the forums to find out about a route and look at the images to get ideas about where to go Almost all our information is...

New divers having fun

Easy, people were discussing other things they like to do and the pleasure:effort ratio.

My mother would go out on the Appalachian trail for days by herself. I told her to at least get a hammock but she just slept on the ground. She did her solo and got her pilots license when she was seven months pregnant and she would throw me in the back where there wasn’t even a seat. When my...

It’s very strange and difficult to explain but solo climbers don’t involve anyone else and I really think it’s mostly about liability. It bothered me quite a bit after the Conception fire when nobody could state the obvious. Nobody cares about cyclists either even when it was not their fault...

I come from a family of six and we all grew up diving with my parents who dived the caves in Florida and took us to the Caymans instead of buying Christmas gifts. They made their own wetsuits and had us all certified at a young age. My brother was seven, earned a NAUI junior certification and...

The other thing, I can’t think of a hobby where it attracts so many people who like to police others behavior. I have no idea what to make of that. I got a letter once from a PADI course director telling me not to ride a jet ski sled (lifeguards in Hawaii) to a reef for a reef clean up I...

We call it the pleasure: effort ratio ;) I would say that flying on vacation where you rent a plane for 120 dollars / hr and fly for an hour around the area has a very good pleasure: effort ratio for example. We’ve done that a few times and you can usually not even plan it ahead.

For my husband and I, we did not like the ever increasing rules so we bought a boat and dived on our own and then when we left Hawaii we pretty much stopped diving. So many things we do we have more freedom and it does not involve so many people telling us what to do/ not do, paperwork etc...

A good question also: why do lifetime divers leave scuba diving?

We looked at this yellow one (Germany alps) today and it was around 5k (Kevlar and fiberglass)

This one is 300 (my neighbor’s we borrowed for the dog) This one is 4,000 new I would say that’s about the range

Once my Halcyon inflator stuck wide open inside a cave in Palau when there were too many newish divers in there on a guided dive and that was scary as hell. From that point forward I became okay with passing on dives that didn’t seem like a great idea. Staying with the group isn’t always the...

The first one reminds me when my husband inadvertently turned my air off before I splashed alone off our boat. I was going along at about forty feet (?) and my valve slammed shut. I did a nice controlled ascent but I was so mad 😡 Another time he left the cap to the fuel tank on the wing of...

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Fourteen years and holding, living the dream!