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My homeowners policy is with state farm. The personal articles policy covers theft anywhere in the world. They just need a police report. My deductible is 1K so I am basically self insured. My health insurance policy also covers me everywhere in the world. It isn't clear to me that DAN...

I bought an AL plate from Gary on ebay. I felt that all the plates were basically the same (which is what is great about the bp/harness setup in the firstplace, not a lot of crap to distract you from what is important). Things to consider: Cost (go for the cheapest!) All slots and holes...

As I posted before in another post, the dive shop is clearly in the wrong. However for some reason you are bending over backwards to "help" out the owner. You posted the following: "-I believe that the employee is the person most to blame for all of this mess. Hurting the shop will not harm...

I am pretty sure that I only get the trickle on an inhale, I will try out what has been suggested and report back.

I have the apex ctx 50 (same as atx 50) and have the same issue. Right now I am diving in freshwater so it isn't a big deal, but when I finally get into salt water I expect it will be really irritating. I get more than a few drops coming in when inverted. "Small trickle" is a pretty good...

I dive mostly warm freshwater (60+ degrees) and will be going saltwater for the first time. I got Gary's aluminum backplate (fully rigged), a 27# halcyon wing, and a 1 piece single tank adapter (5lbs). Since the wing can be used with or without the STA, I will use it primarily for weight (for...

I am really big on customer service, I think you are 100% in the right and the dive shop was not forced to "bend over backwards" to help you. Unresponsiveness (not returning calls) is one of my biggest peeves. They should have opened early or stayed open late. They should have let you pick...

I just bought an AL plate from Gary, got it in the mail today. He uses 316 stainless steel for his SS plates and sells on ebay. His prices are very reasonable). Right now he has a SS plate with harness for 118 on ebay (136 with buy it now). The harness comes fully setup, has the small bungee...

I will be in Vegas for a bachelor party that weekend, but I will be there July 4 if the flower gardens trip gets cancelled. I really like the onsite air fills and all the cute women in bikinis. Plus I think there is more sunken stuff.

If you do a google search on motion sickness cures you will get a lot of links. Has anyone tried the relief band? It electrically stimulates a nerve to block motion sickness. Used to stop nausea in post op patients and other cases (including motion sickness). It is hard to tell if the...

I bought one from my LDS but it was a medium and it turned out to be too big, so I don't have that much experience with it. He didn't have any smalls in stock so I bought a different one instead. He had a closeout price of 275+tax on it which was a pretty good deal.

What you are saying makes sense from a physics point of view, but doesn't seem to correlate with reality. The parameters as I see them are, body Horizontal and vertical (Horizontal is body perpendicular to gravity, vertical is body parallel to gravity). With respect to the horizontal...

I just started to use back inflation and experienced the same problem, there are two things that I have found to resolve this: 1) Don't have too much air in the bladder (i.e. almost totally empty such that you are almost neutral). Make sure that you are actually neutral - with the bladder...

It is definitely regulator dependent, and generally it is harder to breathe while upside down. Here is a rodales link which shows that regulators (yours isn't in the review I don't think) degrade. The breathing column is normal breathing, the positions column is breathing in various positions...

I bought my Apeks regulator online from leisurepro. When I received it, it was not tuned properly and was very hard to breathe. One local dive shop was very pissy and wanted to charge $50 for service. Another was much nicer and only wanted to charge $15 and the last was really nice and offered...

I am in Jacksonville/Ponte Vedra for the weekend and had a trip scheduled with atlantic prodivers this morning. It was cancelled due to visibility being 0-5 feet. Does anyone have any other suggestions for places to dive? Can anyone corroborate 0-5 ft vis? Any suggestions for other things to...

I just put down my deposit for the Flower Gardens trip on July 6 and 7 (100 deposit, $357 total) . After talking you guys this weekend, I am really excited to go (hopefully it doesn't get cancelled). I registered through Tom's dive shop in Austin who have a lot of spots open in July.

I had a great time too, I would especially like to thank Mike for organizing the event (I hope you will organize more!) and Dee and Doug for cooking every single meal! I am used to roughing it when I camp and they really made gourmet camp meals that were way beyond my expectations. A lot of...

you definitely shouldn't try to do 6 to 35 to get to Austin you will be going the wrong way. Mapquest says to do 6 to 190 to79 which will cut west and hit I35 north of austin. Then take 620 South all the way to the Dam. I prefer to do 6 to 21 West to 290 West Then 290 West to 183 West...

People can stay at my place as well. Hot showers, warm futon. 14 miles from Mansfield Dam. A popup, van or trailer should be ok at my house. A huge RV would probably not fit in the cul de sac. I don't have any indoor pets and as mighty diver mentioned, no smoking in the house and you...