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The caves we mostly dive into are springs. Like... as in "Spring water." When you're thirsty, you take the reg out of your mouth... and drink I do Yes, even here in Mexico. No, you don't drink the water from directly under Playa or Tulum; that's the way you get hepatitis. But out in the...

To be fair... I did tell you it's been raining and visibility would be down.

Not gonna lie... it's bad. In places. And at times. To risk sending the whole conversation down a very ugly rabbit-hole... yeah, there are some areas that are just lost due to the hubris of the local construction. HOWEVER... There is still a lot of cave down here. Much of it upstream (that...

Upwards of 90% of the folks I find myself chatting with in the parking lots around here... "Because they're pretty." That's why I, myself, cave dive. I never thought I'd enjoy it - I'm claustrophobic, you see? But I got talked into going and taking a look and it was pretty and...

I'd like to take a minor objectivity break in the conversation. That is, I don't have anything further to add, per se, but I think it's valuable to really take a look at the dialog of this thread... People who know little-to-nothing about cave diving: "We should be allowed to go die in a...

I can't even muster the words for just how offensive this is. Bravo.

I find this mantality odd. When someone has gotten themselves into trouble cave diving, it's not like they bunked their head in the cavern zone and need a coordinated team of the world's most highly trained divers to come and extract them. When a body needs to be recovered it's usually from...

Literally every single piece of gear you're wearing (except, maybe, the drysuit) would need to be reconfigured on day one of a cavern course.

Anyone who knows me knows my reply would have been way, way, way longer about this facet of the conversation which has been weighing on me. I suggest you simply read what Ken said about 100 times and you'll get the exact same information.

20 dives, while technically "more than a few" doesn't really count. Do your research, Tracy.

Best response to any thread on Scubaboard of all time. I feel like this could, very possibly, be a canned response to so very many questions asked in many of the advanced sub-forums over the... what... 20+ years I've been watching. VikingDives wins at Scubaboard!

This is a conversation that was pretty big for a while a few years ago. And one I struggled with because I felt that I could make a persuasive argument either way, but something still bothered me about it. It all felt wrong an unclear somehow. Then, at a rebreather forum at DEMA one year...

This is the wrongest post in the entire thread that I can find. Someone else also said something about newer divers using their BCs too much. That's a close runner-up. I've got something in the range of 5-6000 dives. I adjust my BC volume any time I change depth more than a foot or two which...

This is honestly one of the reasons I encourage people to rethink redundant bladders. According to DAN, one of the most common gear failures is the power inflator. Because no one overhauls those things. And how much attention is a backup one ever going to get? Glad it was a minor...

As I'm sure many people have pointed out there are a number of agencies and instructors who specialise in working with people who are differently abled. And there is a LOT of cool equipment on the market for people with all sorts of various specialty needs. I've been diving a pretty good...

You actually answer your own question. If I scroll back through my computers I'm guessing the average depths I'd see most frequently hover around 30'/10m. Shallow = less gas volume consumed with each breath = more bottom time. With an average RMV of around .5-.75 that translates to around...

No. Yes. But I do live and work as a diver in Mexico. And, since the question was about drysuit usage in Mexico I felt equipped to answer. Edited to add: 105F/40C in the summer? That's cute. That counts as a cold snap here.

I wish you all the joy in the world being the only person in the area (unless there is another tourist or two who really wanted to pack one into their luggage, too, because I can't think of a single local who uses one) arguing with the weight of a crushed neoprene suit in the middle of the...

+1 for closed eyes I frequently simply tell students, “Just close your eyes” over giving them an over-the-mask blindfold from my pocket. It’s a trust thing.

Person 1: "Do not, under any circumstances, touch me." Person 2: {touches Person 1 under any circumstances... in doing so commits assault}