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If I was getting thrown around (say in surf) that would be the last time I would ever want my gear coming lose because of a faulty quick release. I can imagine a worse feeling then being tumbled in surf and suddly feeling ones tanks sliding away along with the regulators.

Anybody have any comments about how CO2 rentention might have been a contribuatory cause of this event? Kevin

RTodd, I guess this is a side question related to scooters, but may fit more in with general philosophy of dive planning. When figuring out a dive plan with a scooter, how many major failures do you take into account? Examples: I want to reserve enough gas to get back if a scooter...

I think 175ft/min on a scooter is a bit too much.... At most I have heard travel speeds of around 150ft/min.... If one guestimates 50ft/min swimming speed means you would have ~ a 60 minute swim back. Using sixths would give you ~ 120 minutes of bottom time of which one used 80 minutes for the...

The halocline at Taj Mahal starts at 40' and the main cave line runs down to 43' so I dont think the cavern line even runs near that deep. We need to distinguish between three different types of cenote diving down here in Mexico: Cave diving - Doing dives beyond the daylight zone with or...

I dont know this for a fact, but I would be suprised if they went anywhere besides Pondarosa for the four days of class.

Some other bit of information that I thought was cool on their class. In the middle of it they took some time off to do some cavern tours. How cool is that!

If David is who I think he is, (You just finished the class with Danny) then I don't think English is his first language. Sounds like you had a good time. Congrats!

Ninja diving skills.

Make that a Cave 1 definately coming for at least three days.

Wouldn't be stirring up the bottom that I would be worried about. It heavy sand anyways and would immediately settle. Would be one of those friendly rays swimming under you, getting startled and the diver getting hit with a stinger. Caymen Islands is an awesome experience, I am sorry to...

If you do go, please make sure to bring your camera for the Stingray City dive. Just the thought of a picture of DIR divers and GUE instrutors arranged in a circle on their knees with their thumbs out just makes me smile. :)

Darn it, you found us out. It was a nefarious plot by all the tech/cave divers who have been planing and executing incredibly demanding dives. And we would have gotten away with it if it wern't for you meddling kids! One can do all the kicks with just about any fin one wears. People advise...

no they were in an echelon type formation. One on the right of number 1 and the other on 1's left

Didn't say it was hard just said it put the onus all on the lead diver. Its can be more efficient to have the team line abreast, line echelon or line. For me it something I would deal with while kick diving, but there is no way in hell I would ever want to do for any length of time while...

This is one reason why I am not a huge fan of the echelon formation where #2 and #3 are positioned to the right and left of #1. It puts all the onus on #1 to make sure the team stays together and pass communication back and forth to #2 and #3. All this while #1 is also having to concentrate...

Tech 1/cave 1 seems to be where the return on investment starts to swing in the instructors favor. A 3 person 5 day tech class gets the instructor ~$4500.

I have two bottles marked with an MOD of 100. My reasoning is that is the maximum depth that I want to use the gas due to 32% narcotic properties. I debated for a bit on marking them at 120, but in the end the fact that I am not doing deco dives and thus not likely at to actually need a 120...

You have an exploration reel Lynne? ;)

You are talking about the "feud" between Steve Gerrard and the QR Safety Committee?