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The victim is in a dry suit so make sure the vent is fully open and (assuming the vent is on the left shoulder) roll the victim slightly to his right side. start venting air as soon as you are moving up. If the ascent gets too slow inhale instead of putting more air in the BCD.

Using tables on a multiday multidive trip will likely cut you short on divetime. For me it was more important to own a divecomputer than a wetsuit, but that is only me. I recommend contacting your LDS to rent two simple divecomputers, maybe you can find some used ones on ebay or craigslist.

Yes you can but why would you want to buy a regulator that cannot be serviced locally? If you get a mainstream reg you avoid this problem. They can be serviced practically worldwide.

You know the site you want to solo dive. OK it is only 16 m deep but 16m is deep enough to drown if caught in a fishing line, so line cutter AND shears are certainly necessary equipment. What do you intend to do in the line of surface support? Are there currents, traffic, dangerous animals...

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I wonder how you arrived at 116 m/min. 3.5km/h = 3500m/60min = 58.33 m/min still high but only half your speed :)

AFAIK they are cheaper than steel cylinders

Heating your body consumes a lot of energy, which produces a lot of CO2, which in turn increases your ventilation resulting in running through your gas faster. Take the largest tank you are comfortable with. You can always switch to smaller tanks when you come out of the water with half full tank.

Exactly that was the intention of my post :blinking: to point out the necessity of additional preplanning. If a diver plans to dive really cold water redundancy is a must IMHO.

first of all I am not sure these really are 300 bar cylinders. as the marking usually says "bar" next to the pressure indication, secondly if built 1984 valves may be conical (beware of forcing cylindrical valves into the threads) so it could be hard to find valves for a manifold; what markings...

For cold water diving two separate sets of regs (first and second stage) are standard in central Europe so that the freeflowing reg can be shut down to preserve gas and when donating air the load is still balanced between two first stages.

The south of Egypt is as safe as it always was. If you go to Marsa Alam there is some really good shore diving and you can take the speedboat to Elphinstone or a trip to Dolphinhouse where your non divers can swim and snorkel and a camel ride into the desert is really great.

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I am rather new at (drysuit) diving so I have only dived one, a 8 year old DUI CLX I bought used. I am glad it has neoprene socks because I can turn it inside out to dry inside. I had lots of leaks due to seals being too wide, now I have at last changed all my seals (ZIP-seals are great) and...

Just do a weight check with full tank and add 7lb (=the weight of 100cf air) for the dive. At the end of the dive repeat the weight check and write your conclusion into your logbook for futurre reference. This will have you slightly overweightet as it will be impossible to get rid of all air in...

I always store my chipped key (not remote control but with embedded chip) in the thigh pocket of my drysuit, so it is exposed to wet and pressure and have never had any problems.

I did not dive then but I heard they just went down and when the regulator startet to breath hard they opened their J-valve and surfaced. :D Nobody is taught to use logarithm tables and a sliderule any more at school because pocket calculators are readily available. A computer puts the...

Apart from my Oceanic Veo eating batteries (once I was too lazy to replace the battery when it showed the first warning on turning on and the next day it would not turn on any more so I dived without backup), no failure in 3 years/200 dives

I use thin plastic tubes under the seals and I use the Dryglove system. You have to keep your hands in front of you to prevent the gloves from squeezing. Have you considered heated gloves? My buddy yesterday wore Heizteufel - Unterzieh-Handschuh in 8°C water we did two dives 54 and 43 minutes...

Mares Nemo wide should fit your budget and is hard to outgrow