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I have an al BP and threaded harness that I use for all my diving (I had a SS BP but gave that away to my brother when he started diving last year) all I switch between dives is the wing and STA (and the weight on my belt), everything else remains the same... I started out in a SeaQuest BC...

I think it depends on the kind of diving you do and your personal "cost" for carrying gear... What I mean is that if you have big pockets, it´s almost no extra hassle to carry a spare mask, an smb and spool and an additional cutting tool and they stay "invisible" until you need them (my...

Deco programs do not adjust deco depending on RMV (at least v-planner doesen´t)... RMV in itself shouldn´t effect risk of dcs but it may be (depending on the individual) that a higher RMV is a symptom of something else (bad shape, bad technique, fatigue, high workload, anxiety etc) that may in...

I think the consensus is that pre-dive exercise is ok, possibly good. Post-dive exercise is bad. With pre-dive exercise the thing to watch out for is other predisposing factors like dehydration etc... Here´s a link to a post by Cameron Martz on TDS about pre-dive exercise (it has links to...

My philosophy is that I won´t do a dive with a buddy that I wouldn´t be prepared to do solo. That is how I try to avoid the "herd mentality" in team diving. Since I´m prepared to do recreational dives with buddies without a redundant airsource, I do the same when I solo recreationally. I still...

I was pretty much in your shoes last winter. I decided to go for it, the money wasn´t an issue (½ the cost of my techcourses) and while time was I still wanted to give it a shot... My percieved benefits: -It would make me a better diver -I´d get to help new divers -It would keep the...

Hydro: Nice, relaxed dive and because of the depth you can spend a long time on her rooting thru the holds without ridiculous deco... Lowrance: I don´t know why but I really like the (few) dives I´ve done there...it almost always looks "undisturbed"... RBJ (I believe), this is the site of...

I´ve actually thought about having a manual inflate for the DS, just like on the bc... As far as I´m concerned the DS is a bigger problem because it doesen´t vent as fast nor is it as easy to disconnect...as there´s often no rush to inflate, a manual inflate would propably work well in more...

I did my whole OW without seeing a pool at all. It was all done in the sea, in a sensible area. A lot of courses here are run in DS from start to finish (even in the pool for those who use one). Depending on the condition of the "ow site" and what they do before that dive it may/may not be...

How do you get thru the lips in Ginnie without pull and...pull? It may be possible to swim against the flow but why would you want to? One thing among many (:sigh_2:) my cave-instructor kept hammering into us was to be energy-efficient...no wasted motion and only using the method of...

One thing that would be different would be the attitude towards thermal protection... One of the "founders" of DIR is famous for having a talk here where he told a large gathering that gloves had no place in diving...maybe diving outside of florida made him change his mind... "dir divers"...

This is what I truly don´t get...I might agree that an eloquent insult can almost be a work of art but for the purposes of this board and moderation? Calling someone an idiot or saying that "someone has their head stuck so far up their rectum that neither gps nor caveline will be enough for...

Getting back to the OP, from what I´ve seen conversations about sex, politics and religion tend to stay civil and respectful in the SI-forums (and in underground-SB ie pms)...the same is actually true of a lot of the dive-topics that tend to degenerate in the general forums as well...where those...

I´d have to agree...maybe part of it is that the "left" in the US is more "right" than the "center" in a lot of other countries...so when you say that you are "moderate" that may well be true from an american perspective (I´d tend to agree that SB is) but on a global scale (if one can imagine...

I don´t own a RB (yet!) but I´ve done a good bit of reading up on it and I do technical dives on OC... I do not expect the number of bailouts/stages/decobottles to really change for the deeper dives. What will change is that the rEvo will take about 25kg/50lbs off my back. I´m already doing...

If someones post-balance is tipped too far in the ****-direction, just ignore them and be done with it...I don´t care about bikini´s and felt that the "kiss ad debate" was plain silly so after I´d read the OP in that thread I just kept scrolling by it as it grew...I do the same with some of the...

Unless price and complexity drop significantly, rbs will likely stay a "very small piece of the scuba pie"..."Expensive" is of course relative but for what it gets me the ~7000$ I´ll pay for my rEvo with training, I feel it´s pretty good value for money... My main reason for going that route...

I think you should be asking two questions: Will diveops require cavern/cave certs? (The answer is no) Should I have cavern/cave training before entering those enviroments? (My answer would be yes) I am cave certified but still did some cavern tours in Riviera Maya last year. The other...

I´ve started taking my DS on tropical trips as well...works great!

From someone on the outside looking in: - Commitment to team diving - Commitment to exellence - Commitment to a uniform set of practices and procedures - Commitment to physical fitness All of these things can be found elsewhere but not consistently, certainly not on a global scale...