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If it dies not involve frozen water it is not a real sport.

If I drop a half kilo now because of my weight loss, then drop 3 more because of the gear change, I will only have one kilo for trim. If I hit my fitness targets, I may be dropping another half kg so only 500 g for trim. I should be able to get most of the trim adjustment by placing teh trim...

I am currently diving with a BC and am considering switching to a BPW set up. I dive warm salt water, no neoprene just board shorts and a rashie. I now use 4.5 kg weight and am thinking of dropping a half kg. I am currently on a fat loss/muscle gain quest and expect that by the time I hit my...

If the BCD/wing bladder is compromised, just inflate your SMB. Clip it to a D ring and up you go. But if correctly weighted it should not be necessary in the first place.

My son and I use the reverse. How many fingers can you see plus how many held up. Back of closed fist is zero. Back of hand to person then number of raised fingers. Five is back of hand all fingers raised, front of hand would also work but could be confused with zero. Six is palm facing out...

That was just yesterday for me. Splashed and as I initiated decent looked at the computer just in time to see the display fade. :( I am off to Cebu City Monday AM to pick up a new Shear water Perdix AI. :yeahbaby:

Non instructor here. What has surprised me in this thread is the number of stories about students who sign up for an OW course and cannot swim and are uncomfortable on the surface let alone underwater. I know that swimming skills are not all that important in diving but I would think that a...

There are not many metrics that you can quantify in diving. Judging how good a diver is is pretty subjective. You can measure SAC, you can measure bottom time and you can measure total number of dives. Some people count cards. We need or at least want some metric that we can use as a proxy for...

Always a good idea to read your insurance policies, even if it can be painful. My health insurance covers diving while within the certifications I hold but specifically excludes solo diving. It also covers training dives. I would think that a DSD would qualify under that. My insurance covers...

You can buy Faraday pouches on Amazon that block the signal so you can lock your fob inside the car. I have my second one in a bag inside my suitcase so when I am traveling I can lock the car with my second set inside the suitcase.

I would think that a pure recreational diver would have hard pressed to dive 100 times a year over the long haul. Even if you had a pond in your back yard, your own compressor, live in dive buddy etc..you would not be able to dive daily, work, weather, health, and other obligations would get in...

Yes, you need to be age 50 for that but if you are talking about retirement I am assuming you are at least 50. Fees are $360 per year after first year you can pay 3 years at a time. More or less the same as tourist visa renewals but only annually or every 3 years instead of every 2 or 6 months...

My basic health coverage included diving as long as I am within my certification limits and do not dive solo. I would be concerned that if I was a little far from my buddy that they could call it a solo dive and deny coverage. My health insurance also has high deductibles which DAN does not...

Precovid I met several people who lived in Hong Kong or Japan, they could fly to the Philippines, dive 3 or 4 times a day for a long weekend, fly home and save money overall compared to doing the same number of dives at home. Generally my cost per dive including boat, sanctuary fees has ranged...

I use Diving Log 6.0. I have it on my phones, tablet and PC. I just use Dropbox to keep all devices in sync. I tried a couple of others but found Diving Log more to my liking and it was more reliable at connecting to mt AL i300c At the end of the dive when I am having post dive refreshments, I...

Everyone says dive numbers don't count. They why is that the only dive statistic that dive shops ask? (They only ask certification level and number of dives, never total bottom time, never variety of dive types, never average SAC etc.)

A few years ago I bought a 53 ft used semi trailer. It had been a reefer unit so had insulated walls. I converted it into a construction site office trailer, but it would had made a great diving trailer with room for sleeping, shower, washroom, cooking etc. It was only $CDN 6,000 prior to...

My dive history is divided into two distinct parts. I certified in 95/96 and right away bought full cold water gear, tanks etc. Then I bought compressor, dry suit, more tanks, camera housing. Add in training costs OW,AOW a couple specialties. Total cost then was about $8,000. In my first 23...

Pretty much. I am neutral with zero air in my BC and 50 bar in the tank. That means at the start of the dive I need 2 kg positive or 2 litre air in my BCD. If I go deep to 40 m then inflate to get neutral, I put 10 litre of surface pressure air in my BC, less than 1 bar on a 11 litre tank. That...

I don't get the crashing into the reef??? I start my decent with full tanks, empty BCD and mostly exhaled. I can stop my decent, not as quickly as inflating the BC, simply by taking in a huge lungful.