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Put your wetsuit on and then rinse yourself thoroughly in the shower before jumping in. Then rinse again afterward. Your suit'll survive.

I swim at Aquatic Park, and as a diver, I've definitely been tempted to use it as a nice bit of confined salt water for messing around with gear. But I've always decided against it. For one thing, the visibility is generally about a foot; I usually can't see much past my elbow when swimming...

Exactly. That was why I was surprised to see the park entirely shut down.

We braved the storm this morning to make good on a pair of reservations at Pt. Lobos, but we pulled up at about 10:30 only to find the park closed. I've never seen that before. Does anyone know the story? We salvaged the day by doing a nice long dive along the pipe to the Metridium...

The 12mm Otter Bay hood is the Cadillac of hoods. You won't be sorry you sprang for it.

Easy thar, pardner. It's Northeast Scuba Supply. Who knew the masses were so slaveringly hungry for backplates with the lower cam band cut a 1/2" too high?

Got my answer, thanks. Best, Steve

Howdy all - Recently I stumbled on an online retailer selling "blemish" aluminum backplates for $50, but now I can't remember the URL. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Steve

Nearly all of my gear and all of my buddies' gear was purchased used. That's probably 8 complete sets of gear between us. I'm talking regulators, computers, lights, BCs... the works. Diver0001 has good advice, so I won't repeat it. Use the search function to find more information on this...

Hm, that doesn't make sense to me. Unless you're doing something unusual with the webbing, it won't offer any additional spacing between the plate and the tanks. For what it's worth, here's a pretty good resource for webbing your harness: Webbing a Harness There are a couple of...

Bingo. Somebody gave me the same advice back when I was shopping for a semi-dry. I ignored it, and now a couple years of diving later, I have a beautiful Xcel semi-dry collecting dust in the closet Long dives? Multiple dives? Diving when the air temp starts to drop? The Xcel is a great...

Your thinking's fine.

For local ab diving, I would just call north coast dive shops and see if any instructors are leading trips. I got into ab diving very informally by hooking up with an instructor from Marin Dive Center; we spent a fun day at Ft. Ross first going over technique and buddy skills, and then we went...

And I'll say again: get some training, or find an experienced mentor. There are excellent classes devoted to free diving technique out there. Not only can you increase your breath-hold times immensely, but -- more importantly -- you'll improve your buddy and rescue techniques.

Huh -- I've never heard of buddy tethers, even in low visibility, and my first thought is definitely "entanglement hazard". Perhaps other folks have experience with them, but I'd probably skip adding a piece of gear -- which will introduce its own whole host of problems -- and focus instead on...

I have been nothing but happy with my TLS350. And I wanted a fully custom cave cut, so I spent a mint. I think there are other excellent drysuits out there -- more on that in a second -- but I have never seen another drysuit, or even another feature on another drysuit, that made me think twice...

In a wetsuit, you get wet. In a drysuit, you stay dry. Basically, a wetsuit keeps you warm by trapping a layer of water against your skin; your body warms the trapped water, which then acts as an insulator. Usually, a drysuit doesn't keep you warm at all; it keeps you *dry*, allowing the...

Even if it were legal to take abalone with your spare air strapped on, where would you put it? We've seen that dive knives, wrist lanyards, and depth gauges all pose significant entanglement hazards in thick kelp, and they have *far* smaller profiles than a spare air canister. And then there's...

Or just bring your own mouth piece and a couple of spare zip ties.