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ROTFL! That's a frame grabbed from a video a friend shot on that dive - I was about to stick a nice black snapper..... (yes, that's a speargun in my left hand :D)

Yes. It rides under your left arm and is completely out of the way if you're horizontal, and its not bad even if you go vertical or inverted. It can also be handed off to someone else if another diver goes OOA and you don't want to be "attached" to him/her. I have one clipped on in this...

ROTFL! BTW, "self bailing" only works if the water runs out FASTER than it comes in over the bow :D We get a couple of guys a year around here who haven't read that part of the manual :D The Atlantic side is completely different than what we get here. I've been over there, and 4-6s...

Why would I not say no? Stuff like that's FUNNY, and it obviously took some time too. More than I'd spend on it :D

8' seas in a 17' boat eh? What period? Around here, 8' seas are likely to be on a 5-6 second period, and your 17 footer would be about 4' underwater when the first one broke over your bow :D

Heh, I have a friend who nearly killed himself with a "small" pony bottle this last summer. What precipitated the OOA that required drawing the bottle was a series of bad decisions, but the fact remains that he ran out again on his ascent, at about 60', and this time he was REALLY out...

I recommend a 19cf pony, slung like a stage. Still light enough to be out of the way, but enough gas to make it even if your SAC is jacked significantly from the original event, down to roughly 100' or so. Having it slung like a stage eliminates the entanglement hazard (because you can get...

But Mike! That Tec-Rec instructor teaching 'ya how to shoot a bag while hanging onto a rock - he's gonna produce a safer diver than the guy who learns - on his own - how to shoot a bag midwater, right? :D

Sure, but I need more specifics. I ran a company for more than a decade and dealt with this stuff all the time. Drop me a PM w/a phone number - I'll call 'ya. Specifics depend on the state to some degree, but there are common elements. (Not a lawyer - just a guy who dealt with this a LOT)

If it goes to SC it'll be worthless as a dive destination. That site, if I have the location right, is five hundred feet deep.

Well mine doesn't fit THAT well, but if it did, I couldn't choose various underwear selections for various dive conditions, and that was important to me.

Done a few... I clean my boat hull and do various underwater things with it (e.g. replacing zincs on the shafts, etc) from time to time. A good part of that time the vis is essentially zero - its a "touch system" dive. We had a tropical storm come through here a couple of years ago...

Buy your own compressors folks. I'm going to call PSI on this one. If they are truly promoting this then its time to consider their "certifications" worthless. Air IS Nitrox 21, provided it meets hydrocarbon cleanliness standards. If they're promoting the idea that it is otherwise...

They are already buying the data from your local grocery stores, both the small and large ones, and attempting to link it to your identity (e.g. through your credit card) in order to get information they otherwise could not have. Indeed, they've been at this since at least 1994, which was...

That is an AWESOME suit IF it fits you for the price. I had one (there were a bunch of closeouts around a while ago) but it didn't fit right - sold it for what I paid for it, but it only had two dives on it. Heh, nothing ventured, nothing gained. These guys have some of the larger sizes -...

I wish someone could tell me. One of the problems with asking for a "cave cut" is that its a custom suit AND you must waive ALL responsibility for fit from DUI. That is, if you get it and its too small, you just ate the suit. That kind of risk is so outrageous that I can't imagine why...

There are cracks in the armor Sean..... Dive Rite rebuild kits can be bought on the net now. That's new within the last year. Oh, its an authorized dealer selling 'em too. Abyss and Apollo, along with a couple of others, have declared they believe in open, free markets. A large number...

Heh, some of this reminds me of 1997. Sometime, on a surface interval, you can ask me what I mean by that reference. Some of its probably still findable on Google, if you look far enough. Be warned though - the last time I put my name in there I came up with something north of 9,000 hits!

Eeeeek.... those "personal filters" aren't what I'd use. I have a portable Hypefilter; its Lawrence Factor's, and its expensive. Unless you're going to use it a LOT, its probably more than you want to spend (about a kilobuck) - I have a compressor, so it makes sense for me to own one. If...

How do the shop(s) where you get your Nitrox mix it? Do they use a membrane or banked system, or do they PP mix? It matters greatly to how you handle this.