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To be fair I lack any official overhead training yet can't remember the last time I dived open water...4 cave dives this week.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

All your thoughts are understandable. Never ever ever ever ever cut any line unless it's 100% necessary. Even then make all attempts to repair or replace the line as long as gas margins will allow. In this situation I'd of relaid a line next to a bulkhead/floor/ceiling/middle of the passage...

Floaty knob on dump valve can help actually now I think as you sweep your hand across the approximate area and it gets caught Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Dry gloves. The other main thing is muscle memory! An excuse to dive more. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---------- Post added November 4th, 2014 at 03:25 PM ---------- And bigger boltsnaps Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Dive scurion. Has an 800 lumen spot than runs a very tight beam and an 800 lumen floodlight very wide angle. It'll run both simultaneously for about 4 hours or you can program it to run one or the other at varying levels etc. tiny tiny canister. Brilliant Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have the same issue but in a drysuit....quite light fins. I'd be interested to hear from anyone about this. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Keep trying with the dry suit! It does open up a world of spectacular diving that otherwise wouldn't be available to you. My first dry suit dive was in a 2 degree temperature quarry when I was 11 with 3mm gloves (a very irresponsible centre). I was so miserable and useless it put me off dry...

Ever seen a lump of coal being thrown into liquid oxygen? That concentration of O2 makes coal go up like a firework just from the impact of the coal landing on it! Since you can't get a higher percentage than 100, I tend to treat all cylinders as lightly as possible. Sent from my iPhone...

Since starting cave diving I've found kitting up to be a joy! I'm normally the only diver in the water, but there's a team of people required to drag/carry/swear at the gear through occasionally miles of passages before I get to the dive site. Being the only diver I'm free to kit up at my...

I currently use a custom divers wing (the bravo, I don't like excess lift) Never noticed an issue with the power inflator to be honest... I want a new, simpler wing though and struggling to find one with a right side dump Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Why is the lower dump on most wings on the left hand side? It seems a silly place to have it, especially when loads of stages/deco cylinders are attached and the right side shall be free? The light is in the left hand in most situations. The only possible reason I can think is that the...

Rockystock I don't do much open water diving so don't want to comment on anything above, but have you checked out www.thediveforum.co.uk It's a UK forum which is useful in conjunction with scubaboard. I'd suggest you'd find some good local buddies on there to talk through your plans with and...

A trick uk cave divers (who've dived sidemount and in absolutely blackout vis for years) use is cutting a few notches in the rubber mouthpiece. For example, in the left reg: Change from left reg to right reg, feel for notches, notches found, you haven't changed regs. Sent from my iPhone...

What a brilliant and well thought out thread on all counts. It's good to see a new diver wanting to learn more basics rather than dive immediately to 40m. Approaching recreational dives with a technical mindset. I'd suggest that's one of the best "skills", and you already seem to possess it...

I dive regularly, year round in England with a diver that refuses to dive dry, mounts his cylinders to a bottle belt (look it up, not nice, especially with steel LP105s/15L steels) and uses old war department regs he bought in the early 70s. His reasoning is it's always worked. Sent from my...

2x Poseidon 300 first stages, with one cyklon metal 2nd stage on each 1x Poseidon 5000 first stage with one cyklon plastic second stage 2x apeks DS4 first stages with an XTX50 on each Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

To answer your original question about canister lights, may I introduce you to this absolute beast! I've never seen anything remotely comparible. http://deep-ideas.co.uk/Store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=35_36&products_id=371 For the type of diving I do, I use all helmet mounted...

Just to correct this, the same is true in the CDG mentor ship program, entanglement, having your mask removed, air turned off is part of the test. Known as interference over here :P Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's the constant ascent and descent I think the computer doesn't like. It records them as 16 different dives with very little surface interval. It's an apeks quantuum, old model. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Interesting thought. This is obviously geared towards the types of cave dives I do, but we wouldn't fit through in drysuit or backmounted configs, so we have to dive sidemount in wetsuits. This obviously leaves us in a predicament for how we carry our gear, with no pockets and streamlining...