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I think you should have stopped at your previous post, this one smacks of "itŽ´s DIR, take it or leave it"...thatŽ´s not really an answer any "thinking diver" should settle for...just saying...

I think he means that: 1. He is "fully" DIR. and 2. DIR is only DIR in the "DIR enviroment". Once you remove some of the building-blocks (f.e a trained, competent buddy), you need to reconsider if the "DIR answer" is still "doing it right" in the "non-DIR enviroment"... Which is sort of...

To the OP: I think your diving needs to be at the point where its all on "autopilot", and where you have good situational awareness so that you can focus your "bandwidth" on your surroundings (and later your divers) rather than yourself. Does shooting an SMB require focus or can you do that...

I thought women liked a man with confidence? What can be more indicative of great confidence than stripping naked without provocation? The guy must have been convinced he was the best thing since sliced bread... Now Im confused...

Obviously do whatever the captain suggests in his briefing. Whenever Im diving in strong or unpredictable currents my first priority (after making sure that I and my buddy both have enough gas to breathe and are together) is to send up an SMB (if I miss the upline). Drifting, lost at sea, is...

Isnt the "rec standard" that there is no standard? Why should "OW students or intro divers, or just regular old fun divers" have to bother reaching behind their wing when they dont have to?(left or right propably doesent matter for these divers) Why should they not learn the "tech SOP" from the...

I took IANTD Adv. Rec. Tmx as my "intro to tech" because my instructor recomended it over Adv. Rec. Nitrox and because some of the cool wrecks were in the deeper end of the allowable depth range where I didnt feel comfortable starting out learning narced... I can definetly see the point of...

I´d second Johann´s... Spent 2 wks diving the wrecks and he has all the equipment and knowledge to make diving even the deeper wrecks safe...

I think the idea that a dive-professional is someone who can actually support a decent standard of living on their teaching income is a good idea (I know I wouldn´t want myself as an instructor after an 8+hr work-day). And looking at my friends commitment to his students, which means that...

I love the simplicity of doubles and a stage or two in the water but the time and effort to get there and on the dive I wanted just made it harder and harder to feel motivated. You´re ready to go CC when you feel it´s worth it to YOU, for whatever reason, as long as you make an informed...

I actually know one of the guys who´s been developing some of the course materials and he´s been able to sell his "padi aow" for something like 2,5x the cost of a regular aow(it´s more life gue-f+) and he does get some people to take it. Mostly after seeing him or his students in the water or...

I´ve done 5 liveaboards in the red sea, something like 100+ dives. I am not a "fish person" but...during my trips there I´ve dived with dolphins, hammerheads and napoleons. While none of that is "macro", those dives will stay with me forever. Like others have said, there are pyjama nudi´s...

I made the change because I was fed up with the logistics of deep diving on OC. And while I´m not convinced CC is really cheaper than OC, for me, I´d rather sink a lot of money into CC and being "forced" to dive to justify the cost rather than having to secure dives that justify the cost of a...

It is sort of funny that regardless of which class you´re looking to take from OW to cave, whenever people ask what to practice, the answer almost always includes bouyancy...of course it´s still very good advice...try hovering witout moving (anything), practice stuff like frog-kick, shuffle-kick...

If diving with a large group and diving "as a group", I´d go with the "ok" light signal approach, it´s easy and it helps keep everyone in a "team mindset"...it also works for all diving, I did a few wreck dives with a group of 5(3 that I´d never dived with before) and we managed to get thru...

Yes, that´s why it´s red... So you either change the gasses or accept the risks inherent in the gas-change... risk vs. reward... Personally I wouldn´t deco 80mins for 10 mins of bottom-time, particularly as your deco-profile is just "one big ascent" until the 30mtr mark...I don´t see that...

Now that Tomeck has fleshed out his planned dive, my only reply would be that I wouldn´t do that dive (too much deco for too little dive)... I appreciate that the risk/reward-ratio is different for Tomeck (and I make no value judgement about it) so if I was to "theoretically" plan this dive...

Tomeck, it might help us give you better suggestions if you tell us what you´re going to do on the dive, what your BT will be and the water temperatures... I´ve only been to 80mtrs/~250ft but I used 2 deco gasses for that dive and I wouldn´t feel comfortable with a PO2 of more than 1,4 in the...

Hi, Let me preface this by saying that I don´t live in that part of the country but... There is a club in Nyköping: http://www.aquatic.se/ (if you email them you may be able to organize something with them) Other than that Nyköping doesen´t have any dive center that I could find but...

I have had a primary freeflow (a 1st stage HP seat that gave up during the dive) and a buddy had an inflator hose come loose during a dive (propably just "fingertight" to begin with)... The primary was solved by shutting down the valve, the inflator-hose issue I diagnosed after my buddy had...