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If you're entangled you do not have an emergency. The only emergencies are either being OOA or not breathing! Its entirely possible, depending on the circumstances, that what you did could have extremely bad consequences. Getting completely out of a BC in a wreck if you are entangled may be...

I doubt it w/o the plate. An empty HP120 is only about -1.5. That 3mil wetsuit is plenty buoyant at the surface. With a SS plate you might be just about right in freshwater w/o a belt though.

The bands WORK. Just remember to take the thing off before you suit up and get in the water; they're too expensive to subject to hyperbaric testing (hint: they DO NOT survive it.) I'll have to get some of the Powerade; I'm usually pretty immune to the barfs, but we frequently have people on...

"Rescue" is one of those "keys" that fits agency "locks", irrespective of how well you can dive, and irrespective of the fact that at least some of the orthodoxy you will be shown in the Rescue class is just plain wrong in a technical environment.

Entrapment? Uh, if I'm gonna cut off someone's harness, they're unconscious, unable to help me, and I've now got them on the surface at the back of the boat. The last thing I care about at that particular instant is putting their kit back on! If I'm conscious and entrapped I can drop the...

I can cut a single-piece webbing with my shears faster than I can figure out how the particular type of fastex buckle on a particular piece of gear releases. There IS more than one design. It gets even more fun with weight integrated BCs; some are obvious with nice ripcord handles, but not...

Nope, but I might have to. The only thing I've found that works with near 100% reliability on everyone who has tried it is the Relief Band. Its a little $100ish watch-like device that goes on "backwards" and shocks the nerves that connect to your puke center in your brain. My g/f gets...

The issue with a 30 or 40 is that your TOTAL weight is now quite close to that of light doubles (e.g. 72s), ESPECIALLY if you have something like an HP120 for a primary, and you can safely do two NSL dives on a set of 72s if your RMV is even halfway decent. So from my point of view at the...

All that is nice and great, but if you are planning for your RMV to remain reasonably constant you're not being conservative enough. And a 19 does not get in the way if you sling it like a stage. At all.

Only if you want to be able to see :D (I can see it now - PADI's "Cave Diving" class.....)

I do not believe he was complacent - just not paying attention. I've dove with this guy before, and I've never known him to go "to the wall" or actually try to use the pony to extend his gas supply. He lost track of it. Yeah, that's bad. What's worse is finding out that your...

Oh man. Spectre, your count is low. My spam filter averages more than 300 hits a day, and only one or two get through. That's about the minimum that I consider acceptable for a real "spam filter" - anything more and I still get disgusted... As for the topic of this post, I'd be...

6lbs with an AL80 and a SS BP, assuming a 3 mil full wetsuit is what I need and if you're height-weight proportional) you'll probably be close. If you use the AL plate, you'll need 8. If you can find an HP steel, you'll only need 2lbs or so. That, by the way, is a very nice warm...

If I can't shoot a bag and hold myself neutral while doing it, I have no business taking ANY techical training from ANY agency. PERIOD. For one Kane and I agree. Call the doctor - I think my heart just stopped!

Neither of the near misses that I pointed to above, both of which I personally witnessed, and one of which would have almost certainly been an actual "hit" (and possibly an "own goal") were I not there, were from PADI instructors. Well, ok, I think they can issue PADI certifications ALSO, but...

That's nice. The near-misses don't count though, and that's even worse, because a lot of these guys will have several of those before someone actually becomes fishfood, and there are a lot of "near-misses". A I related in "the other thread", I witnessed a really bad one last summer, and it...

They won't, because they don't. I alerted an agency to a very serious problem that was clearly documented by the logs of the instructor and thus the copies kept in the student's folders last summer and they refused to do ANYTHING without a signed, written statement from the actual student...

I had a guy on one of those waterrats nearly land in my cockpit last summer coming in the Inlet here. Those guys are NUTS.

OMG - they actually published a pictures like that on the web?! Eeeeeek!

Depth at the bottom was close to 130 - I wasn't there but I know the site he was on, and have dove it myself several times. His backgas tank was a HP120 - he's a pretty serious hoover on gas. The pony is either a 9 or 13; not sure which, and he was spearfishing. The deco stop isn't all...