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Thanks for the advice. :D I just got off the phone with Mike from Dive Right In Scuba and he walked me through the tuning procedure (very nice guy, BTW). Way cool that this gives me a THIRD thing to fiddle with on the reg :cool2: I will rent a tank and try tuning it later this week, seems very...

Folks, I'm posting here because I figure this is the best spot to get good answers to stupid questions regarding long-hose/necklace rigs. I am a relatively new diver who wants to move to a more technical rig ASAP so as to gain time and experience in what is clearly a commonly preferred...

Poor use of smilies on my part...I was mostly just ribbing you. :ermm: I wasn't questioning your ability to retrieve them, just the numbers required to reach your benchmark. Must have been a pretty busy course to support that kind of catch on a regular basis.

Um, I can't find the corrections...must be pretty minor, anyway you certainly don't need to be perfect to give advice. But since you chose to ignore my opening and closing lines and take offense where none was intended I will leave you with this little anecdote and then bow out of the...

I'm the spring chicken of this group, certified at 51. They do say that 50 is the new 40 :D

Please don't take this as anything but another attempt to reach you on this subject, no offense to you is intended but it's hard to not sound harsh. If I might be so bold I think it's you who is missing the point. I don't say that to be mean or funny or make you feel bad, I actually think you...

And hence the nick? So you were able to gather more than 10 balls per minute continuously while in the water? Are you sure there isn't a touch of creative math or at least some selective memory going on here? Or was it just a club full of REALLY bad but highly determined golfers? :rofl3:

You must have one deep kitchen sink! I have the same problem with a partially cleared mask. Best I can tell it is the blink reflex when the water splashes at your eyes...the "normal" reaction is to flinch way and shake the water out or clear your eyes with your hand, since neither are...

I am getting similar reactions in my area, there are two shops and while one is better than the other neither shop seems to take my desire to go Hogarthian right from the start with a BP/W and simple harness seriously and they try to steer me toward sticking with recreational equipment that I...

Yoga? But seriously, I know EXACTLY where you're coming from (which is why Wu upset me so much with his reply) , I might have written your initial post if I found this board before my first dive. I can only recommend that you shop around for an instructor that makes you feel comfortable just...

Technically correct but splitting hairs and only half the info the OP needs at this point. The swimming test may be conducted in the pool, pond, (pond would be good for you:eyebrow:), lake or ocean as part of the confined water work rather than the OW...however it IS a test you will need to...

DO NOT LISTEN TO WU...nice way to start out a new diver who is worried he won't be able to handle the tests...:dork2::no::dork2: Straightforward is right, if you are at all comfortable swimming around underwater (snorkeling, fooling around in a pool, etc.) then this will NOT be difficult...

Looks like I'm going to need to add some lead too! Hopefully the changes to my equipment will help (going BP/W) offset the added buoyancy of my larger, um, body-integrated flotation device...:shakehead::shakehead::shakehead: Yeah...female fat is considered hazmat as it reacts violently to...

Aruba is the only place I have dived (so far) and, as I explained in another recent thread (What Makes A Good Dive Buddy, Post 20) I got one very good and one very bad buddy. After that second dive I pretty much came to the conclusion the OP writes about as his concern, since corrected.

What can I say...I really like diving and I want to do it a LOT! :eyebrow:

Since your poll is missing a category for me I voted with where I stand now as a "vacation diver" who got certified in the islands. This isn't really in keeping with the intent of your poll as I'm just starting out and have identified and hooked up with an LDS and an instructor who is a tech...

Lots of answers from the experienced members...most of them encouraging to me since I consider myself in the league of enthusiastic newbies eager to learn... However since you asked about experiences as well I have experienced buddies from both ends of the spectrum in my first two certified...

Good points all...Ironically I was thinking about reopening a discussion about swimming when Mike revived this one. As I mentioned in my post from January I initially had problems with the swim test and then passed it on my second try by essentially doing a backstroke the entire 200 yards...

I'm very much a newbie myself but, yes, I believe that an instructor is a much more responsible position than a DM...ESPECIALLY to a brand new diver.

Is it just me or is there something seriously wrong with this picture? Should not the instructor have thumbed the dive when he lost one of his two students? In low vis water wouldn't the best course of action been to surface and look for bubbles instead of guessing on a direction and heading...