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Northern Diver (UK based) makes some awesome relatively inexpensive gloves and offer reinforced / kevlar options but shipping can be expensive to the US.

You could drive a few hours up to NJ or down to NC both of which have world-class wreck diving. But you would want to make it a multiday trip given the drive times and early boat departures.

Ribbon worm, likely Baseodiscus mexicanus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseodiscus_mexicanus https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/14-fun-facts-about-marine-ribbon-worms-3156969/

https://www.idivenewengland.com/dive-sites/ma https://ecdivers.com/new-england-dive-site-map/

From the tone of this post, it sounds like this was an unplanned engine upgrade? What happened? Those motors are beautiful.

Oil and overheating aren't just nasty in and of themselves, the combination = potential carbon monoxide.

Yes I have dived Bikini recently, on a boat with mostly CCR divers and a couple people on OC trimix. Definitely not air! Our CCR dives were each roughly 2 hour runtimes and we wanted every extra time advantage the units could provide. I don't think the OC people had as much fun. A couple of OC...

Bikini will totally suck on open circuit these days. Your dives will feel cut short compared to everyone else on CCR. Trimix will be very expensive. As for air - those wrecks are huge and deep, with serious penetrations and are no place to be narked. If you bend yourself, there is likely no...

Wouldn't that just push your first stops shallower and shorter, and make your later stops much longer? Running a conservative inverted GF like 60/40 would make for long deco times and isn't practical but it's not necessarily bad. It's pretty much what your profile might look like if you did a...

From the article, it sounds like they did have emergency equipment and procedures (not to mention tons of experience doing far deeper dives). Sad loss, seems to have been a great guy and a great diver. [WILD CONJECTURE AND SPECULATION] Perhaps it was something strange like a bad sensor...

Consider how often you plan go to the full depth. If it's only a couple times year (with lots of shallower diving) then burning through a few expensive OC helium fills for the deep dives will actually be cheaper. Maintaining a CCR is expensive in both money and time. Conversely, if you plan to...

Yup, don't do it. Though like all bad things, there are levels of bad. Do a single shallow recreational dive in the morning, and go snorkeling in the evening with a few casual dips below the surface? Probably going to be fine. Do a serious deep dive then an intensive freedive session pushing...

Easy entry, house reef, or place with some ambient light if it's your first time night diving. Bonaire is a great first night dive location because the viz is so good it's basically like day. There are some different reef creatures out - sharptail eels are fun to watch as they hunt. If you get...

I avoid using a suit inflation bottle when possible. As in, unless I'm diving a high helium mix in very cold water I don't use one. Sure it does sit out of the way when rigged properly, but tech diving already involves too much gear and I would rather shed it if not strictly necessary. In terms...

It's also why I begrudgingly acknowledged in my original post that "they are regulators". I never said they won't be just barely good enough to suck air out of. I said they're crap quality and won't do it very reliably or for very long.

I have bought super cheap 1st stages and found metal chips from machining inside them. I have bought cheap bottom-of-the-barrel reg hoses and had them fail catastrophically within weeks, or degrade quickly while quality rubber hoses last years. As far as I know, things still haven't "changed"...

Understand that with these you're buying the lowest possible quality of everything. Just barely good enough to work for a little while before they start having expensive problems. Worst quality of part machining, of materials, of coatings, of o-rings, of hoses, of valve seats, of quality...

That's very interesting. Do you have a link or datasheet or more information? What is maintenance like on it? Is this a quality thing affordable because it's mass produced for medical use, or "crappy but good enough" pump from some generic chinese manufacturer? I would love a Masterline...

Not sure what your health issues are so this may or may not be a viable option - but there are opportunities and groups for adaptive and disabled diving.

dry/wet suit repair is worth looking into as a side gig as well.