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If you combined this with OW, it'd be a longer and more expensive course. I'm really not certain you'd achieve much beyond turning people away that have no interest in diving deep, which is a heap of the people that do reef dives at resorts. All they want to do is take pictures of fish in 3-12m...

I'm not across legal precedence in Australia to comment on that, it may or may not be illegal to dive without a certification. It is absolutely illegal (in Queensland) for a company to take you diving without you being certified, or allow you to dive where the dive site is beyond your...

Here we are bound by a code of practice, the requirement to be certified (certificated) is enshrined in law. You're right in what you say, you can feasibly dive regularly and no one will notice. If you were self sufficient, buy your own gear and compressor etc, you would bypass the 'scuba...

I got into Technical diving for a few reasons. Mostly because I love wreck diving and hated the short bottom times. Partly because I just enjoy the ongoing process of learning and partly due to the buzz of being able to go where few go, and be able to see more/stay longer than most who get...

At lot of this is fascinating, but speculation always is because its juicy and doesn't require substantiating. You just get to throw it out there and make someone else do the work to disprove it. But, is there any actual reason to doubt Gabr's credibility? Scuba Sam have only pointed out...

Think about where you might do your diving. That leads to how much lead you normally add, and how much lift you'll need to offset suit compression. SS backplate is heavier than aluminium, there are 20lb and 30lb wing options, 25lb options. Warm water with 3mm wetsuit and S80 tanks, you might...

When I was a DM, the skipper gave me 30secs to get off the boat and get UW to be a lost diver for a rescue course. Grabbed my BCD, tank on, test breathe, fins, splash. Really struggled to get down, yep, no weights. Another DM pulled my integrated pockets out because the thought it looked...

For what its worth Aaron, I did my first AN/DP dives with steel LP117s, felt like a rank amateur. On the second day the instructor took those tanks and made it look effortless. I went to steel LP100s and it felt effortless. One thing you may note is that long-term tech divers have a room full of...

Practical use to you is a case of you knowing how well you understand the theory and how you dive. Most computers don't have these features and people are getting by just fine, but the uptake of them indicates people see no risk from being informed, and perhaps some risk in being blind. I think...

Pffft, you know nothing of summer. Sounds like a great deal, enjoy

Yes, but the hose routing is sub-optimal. If you gave me a set I'd use them, but I wouldn't buy them when there are much tidier options available. I think Perth might have a HOG dealer, but not sure. Someone over there was offering the TDI HOG servicing course. With Deep6 I recall a post here...

Same for me, could not get desktop to sync. Windows is seeing the device and showing them as connected, but Shearwater Desktop was throwing "error 175: scan found no dive computers". The DC never progress passed the "Wait PC" countdown, though the desktop says "your device is ready to go". Tried...

The one you can pick up and it still works, and you still know how to drive it or figure it out again quickly. Occasional diving means you need something simple and familiar, so the menu system is probably the key criteria. Its been a while since I looked at a new Suunto menu system, but my old...

Only complaint I've heard with the Peregrine is the lack of a compass. Not a big deal for me but the owner of it was a bit disappointed. Looking at the manual, if you have no intention of Trimix or CCR it really does do everything you could need. The Shearwater dive planner is excellent, and its...

BM is much easier to penetrate the narrow doorways, passages and hatches in wrecks. To use SM you spend a lot of time rolling sideways, it works but its suboptimal. Side mount is for low passages, ie caves, but its also very comfortable for solo diving and very flexible because its single tanks...

I hadn't meant to imply that, but it does appear that CCRs have taken over that area of diving. I've had a few offers of Mod1 included with a CCR purchase, Mod2 is shortened by having Normoxic OC, and Mod3 has to be comparable to the gas bill for Hypoxic OC at 3c/L. It could just be an...

I have single webbing harness, Hollis solo to be specific, I never adjust the webbing. I actually like it a little bit loose, gives me some floating room inside all the inertia of the rig. I've never had a chest strap, never felt I needed one, it seems like extra clutter in an already busy...

Guinness clearly don't have forensic standards to authenticate records like this. It certainly raises some interesting points. What I've read about John Bennett, then Nuno Gomes, Michele Geraci's attempt, they suffered for their efforts.

Some people are obsessed with failure modes. The early plastic buckles were a bit more fragile, you can drop a tank on a webbing harness and nothing breaks. Perhaps walking around with a few deco tanks clipped on exceeded the buckle. Regardless, for some it is the only way. The Elite is a good...

I know a guy that was refused entry into Chuuk/Truk for not having six months validity, even though he had a return ticket for a week later. He says that another FSM immigration officer was pleading his case, but the decision was made by someone with higher authority or enough independence to...