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If you are taking a class( or diving less than 98 feet in general) Nitrox is great. If you are preforming a rescue or underwater rescue under that 100' ceiling there is no down side to Nitrox either for you or buddy breathing. If you are "rescuing" below 100' you most likely will be doing a...

It's the only sport where the fundamental objective is to stay alive. That discourages most sane people..lol

Your sense of humor

I did my 500th dive naked off Palm Beach. As soon as I hit the reef it became a stupid idea for obvious reasons and not funny. Had I done it on my 100th dive, it still would have been stupid idea but it would have been funny.

The difference between EAN of 30% and EAN 21%( air) is 9 torr. I would have just breathed the 30% during the whole dive. Increase of O2 equals decrease of N. 30% is safer than air except at 100 feet+. The real issue left out in this thread is whether you had done multiple dives the day before...

I note in these threads there is a lot of emphasis on agencies and instructors. Nothing inherently wrong with getting both the benefit of experience( which is essentially others mistakes that they lived through to talk about). And of course collective wisdom is wonderful thing. When my...

It depends on your ultimate agenda. If its to dive, eat sleep. It's a live aboard. It's pretty safe to assume you'll get 20-25 dives in a week. Or another way of looking at it you can get 12-15 hours under water which is far more valuable than the number of dives. It would be a mutually shared...

Bravo, well written and to the point...............learn from those that have the experience, not those who think they do.....There is difference between those who having been IN the wreck and those just on the wreck.

The most useful training that I have had and applied to deep wreck diving( over 500 around the world) is a mediation class. Learn to control your breathing and ability to stay focused in the moment. Of course narcosis will do that as well but it can be fatal.

Interesting discussion: My observation is this. It's not the number of dives that matter as much as the number of hours underwater. The oceans, the lakes, the caverns all have a lot to teach. Surviving a dive in each environment is a credential in and unto itself. All this being presented...

Most useful tip for women is to use conditioner in your hair before diving. Post dive tangles come right out and very few spit ends....

I'm trying to practice restraint of pen and tongue...but I can't. I got assimilated into solo diving by the ocean. After I spent some time under water I got this "sense", it invited and welcomed me. I wasn't afraid and I wasn't narc'd..lol. But I've been that too. Part of what scared me...

Greetings, New on the site as a member( been reading for years). I want to express my appreciation to everyone who posts on this site. I've found the information, ideas and experiences to be enlightening and helpful. I'm looking forward to enjoying more, and when I have some experience that...

Hi Thanks for your question. I don't have a "Solo cert". Not sure any agency would assume that liability. I have over 800 solo dives. Some of them 150+ feet. I've come back the same number feet I went down on each of them. I sign a dive waiver that exonerates the outfitter. INMO, If you...

From experience, an AIRII is a very, very, very, small reg to breath out of and negotiate with another diver who has just ripped your primary from your mouth. From my experience, I use two regs, quality second stages. I have one on a short hose(27") bungeed over my head right below my chin. My...

Get the Nitrox training!!! You can never go wrong with training=experience. Stuff comes and goes....

Try a pair of 5mm neoprene gloves. Cut tip of index finger and your good thumb back about a half inch. Soak tips of other glove fingers in tool dip( rubberized coating.) dip them about a 1/4 inch, just enough to cover tips. Your hand will be warm ns you’ll have the dexterity in good hand to...

Kauai is great diving. I’m heading there in may 2021. Follow state of Hawaii travel regs. Kauai updates are tomorrow 4/5/2021 I used seasports.

Solo diving rule of thumb. If you have the experience, the skills and training to dive solo you are probably good to go. If you don’t know what those skills, training and experience are you don’t have them. Dive with a buddy

Good fin, negatively bouyant. 2 less pounds of lead weight. Think package weight.