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Hmm. Well, he definitely dived the Niagara, I'll give him that. Strange that he decided he was fine with only diving it once, but he made his choice. I don't think scuba attracts significantly more people who think like this guy than any other serious sport, but the ocean is probably less...

My cold water rig is based on a Manta sidemount wing. It's the only thing on it I never changed. I don't know if they are still available now but I very much enjoy the valve layout on the Manta. They are inside the wing, protected, and perfectly comfortable. It does balloon at times, though, and...

The primary lower is paracord or whatever your rope of choice is. The second lower boltsnap that clips onto your forward waist dring is light bungee. I do not yet do technical wreck penetration; I only do restrictions that require winging out a tank in the safety of a training area, so keep...

I'll chime in as the only person who does something like this. I primarily dive steels, but on my al80's I have a second boltsnap on, and this is important, BUNGEE cord. It's fairly light, just enough to keep the tanks where they are supposed to be during the dive. I have tried sliding d-rings...

Indeed not. It's a reminder about not diving with horribly inappropriate gas mixes, safety margins, the narcotic effect of CO2, checking mixes during your buddy check, and including gas mix checking in team SOP. These are not things unknown to us and are not things anyone should die because of...

I was wrong. I don't understand why he would have gone to 190' on what he thought was EAN24. Normalization of deviance? As divers we put in safety margins to dive safely. No helium, planned dive to the razor's edge of oxygen toxicity... there was no margin. Just none. Geez. Dive safe guys.

I would be surprised if he knew he was taking 26% as his dil. There had to be a testing or labeling mistake in there for it to make sense to me. An air fill I could get, unwise as it would be, but 26% to 190' is playing Russian roulette.

Another vote for the Perdix.

Darn it. Rest in peace.

My observations when starting out was that matching fin buoyancy to my body and rig's trim needs was critical to maintaining proper trim. With experience and training I found that I could dive in good trim regardless of what find I had on. However, perfect trim still requires excellent weight...

I have had several masks, and they all let in the mustache water a bit. I trim a little space between the stache and the nose to reduce the leakage, but what I actually rely on is blowing a puff of gas out my nose every so often with my facial muscles twisted just enough to open a little gap for...

Sidemount is extremely flexible. For a negative entry, attach your tanks before you get in the water and wait to slide on your bungees until you are on your way down, or even all the way to the bottom if you have too much going on during the descent. For every situation there is an optimum order...

I went to sidemount for technical diving in the Great Lakes. There are no shortage of people who say sidemount is not appropriate for boat diving, much less technical boat diving in cold water. That is bs. The actual truth is that sidemount is complex and every added factor adds complexity, so a...

I don't know for sure what is going to be possible yet. Gunilda in Lake Superior is my stretch goal at 270' and I have a lot of work before I can do her.

I am going to have to vent here a little bit. I have been following the RR project off and on, and I was shocked and saddened to hear that Eric passed away. We lost a diver in Lake Erie this summer and that was horrendous as well, plus I doubt we will ever learn exactly what went wrong...

Not tried it, but I did consider it. I didn't think the handling characteristics would be as usable as cave line. Again though, I never tried it.

I have never heard of a tank exploding while in use. While filling, sure, or when dropped, but not in use. Curious to know what happened.

Rest in peace. I hate losing people.

Thanks for sharing.

@revdive I was! I have a list of people who signed up for more information and I am only getting to it now, so if that includes you I'll be in touch.