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I will be curious to see where you end up with this project. Sidemount is a tremendously flexible platform to do many forms of diving. However, it's flexibility includes a great deal of complexity. Having built my own rig and spent considerable time practicing sidemount on my own before getting...

Reading the lawsuit made me so mad. A more horrible and completely unnecessary death is hard to imagine. I think a charge of murder on the part of the instructor would not be unreasonable if the events were as described, and I am normally very anti-lawsuit.

I dislike the flimsy grease pencil that come on wrist slates, so I finally got around to upgrading mine. I bought a retractable mechanical diving pencil from Piranha to add to my Dive Rite slate. However, the existing pencil holder on my wrist slate was far too small to fit the larger mechanical...

Thanks, I look forward to seeing your setup. I am going to make good rigging setups for butt and side options and see which one works better. I like how the butt mount gets it out of the way, but I dislike having to change my trim weighting every time I use a drysuit bottle to accommodate it...

I run an h-harness I built over several years with a Manta wing. I don't have any cannisters and I'm not penetrating anything at the moment, though that will change. I will take at look at the sidewinder guys, thanks.

Hello sidemounters; For those sidemount divers who carry a separate drysuit bottle (because trimix), where do you put it? I have seen: -skip the bottle, run an inflator on your 50% deco bottle; -bottom mounted on the butt plate/butt portion of the crotch strap/clipped below the hip strap...

I don't really care whether that layer is smooth or not. The thermal difference between smooth and some bunching is small to me. I push it more or less in place before I zip up, and that's about it. I don't have a p-valve on my Hollis; I don't know how well it would work. You should be...

@jvogt I only have MI al40's, but compared to my buddy's al40's during a drop drill mine sat flat on the bottom while theirs had floaty butts with 50% nitrox. I don't know if theirs were Luxfers, though.

I do drop d's for my primaries and waist d's for deco bottles.

I run Kubis and I really like them. The glove switch process and the ring installation is pretty straightforward, just look it up on YouTube. The only trouble was getting the big o-rings on. That can be annoying if you don't have the right technique or a second set of hands. Gloves are pretty...

Agreed. I leave plenty of glove wrist slack and my suit arms are not an issue for reaching. I hope more glove slack will solve your problem. I think it will, and you can go back to shiny orings. It is certainly harder to mount the Kubis if the rings lose their lube. So much of this is personal...

@bobmaggi Just enough lube to make the o-ring shiny! I was taken aback when I read you had problems with the gloves sliding off and I thought "Just how much lube did he use?" I am guessing from your comment about removing lube the answer was a lot. I would be shocked if my Kubi gloves ever came...

Seaskin Nova 3 month review: I love my Nova and I am enjoying it. I just wanted to share a few notes about my experience with the value of certain upgrades. -Quick Neck with Silicone seal +100%, great upgrade, absolutely love the silicone seal. No leaks, no trouble, and no discomfort. -Sitech...

Does anyone know who makes the Fourth Element HD dry gloves? I am assuming that they are a borrowed design and not actually purpose-built for scuba.

What charter? I'm going!

K01? What is that? I am also looking for a better hood.

I am no expert, but I avoided braided hoses until a couple years ago when the rubber hose I wanted to buy was itself subject to a recall, and then I got a couple braided hoses. My understanding is that the Miflex are no longer using the brittle material that caused their recall.

Nothing to add, but good luck.

Those look pretty neat, though the fact they are UK/EU shops does rather prove Marie's point. Makes sense for CCR diving.

I did a lot right with gear and training, largely thanks to the insights I learned in this forum. Some things were mistakes (compared to the optimum path) that I learned enough from and enjoyed enough that I don't regret them. Pretty much all of those things are diy related. But if I could...