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Unless you are a trained professional, a simple mouth-to-mask with O2 connector will be infinitely better than a Bag/ValveMask. Ventilating with a bag and keeping free airways is a specialist task that takes regular practice to do properly!

Personally... Some holidays are "single tank holiday". If I don't want an instabuddy, I'll rent a buddy. On standard run of the mill trips, I'll dive single tank, and keep a keen eye on gas usage, riskmoments and usable gas. Normally I would have no issues diving to 30m with this. I am normally...

In my understanding, he also asked for potential other solutions and that he wasn't bonded to these tanks as he got them for free. Personally... 20miles off shore... Possibly doing technical/freedivnig I want volume, a robust delivery system with possibility of using all possible gas resources...

Keep in mind... RescueEAN can be used on 100% O2 dive bottles. Does not have to be a "medical oxygen bottle" (with added prize premium for "medical") So... get a 100% O2 stage/deco bottle, a reg with 2nd stage and LP hose, a rescue Ean, and bobs your uncle....

Personally... If you are far out to sea, time and oxygen are limited resources. The simplest setup in my mind would be a PERMANENTLY Oxygen/6m/20ft marked Alu80 with oxygen, standard reg with a LP hose for a RescueEAN. This ensures both options for Mouth To Mask with O2 ventilation...

Also. While this is a stationary o-ring and not sealing parts in motion, installation will cause friction. So if the o-ring wasn't slightly lubricated when installing hose on 1st stage, friction/pulling forces could damage the o-ring. (And of course, It could be just bad luck. o-rings are...

The geist of this convo is as follows... Of the people who HAVE done Fundies, the general sounding advice is: do a lot of diving. Get comfortable in the watercolumn. Have fun while diving, but leave the teaching of specific GUE SOPs to your instructor. It is what you pay them for. Of the...

Also... GUE is about predictability. If everybody in a team knows the standard SOP for manipulating a valve, communicating a failure, problemsolving and fixing it is easier to communicate and decide whether a dive can continue or not. Predictability and standardisation are keys to managing any...

Not a great breakfast eater my self. At home I never eat before 11, but on dive days, especially for classes, a good breakfast with eggs, bacon, toast, butter, avocado, OJ and a bit of mango keeps me going all day. Puts less pressure on the eating bit the rest of the day. Emoke and Lazlo...

Just look forward to it. Emoke is amazing! Recommend a good strong breakfast, and if you like bananas, the small ones a really nice for snacks. (Wont melt, like chocolate).

While the possibilities with a rebreather are greater, diving both CCR and tech in the same area as Steinbil I know that the local wrecks/sites are quite suitable for mixed team diving, and also that the locals who dive both open and closed circuit are used to both mixed and non-mixed diving...

Mer has a good argument... I'll give the other side, doing T1 before C1 lets you have failures under control before you need to handle them in a sensitive restricted environment. However... they are both introclasses in their respective fields, and either way you go, you'll find use of the...

Biggest difference with D7 300 and D8,5 232 is length of the bottles and buoyancy characteristics. D7s are heavier, have more goods at the bottom of the bottles. D8,5s are longer and if you are not very tall they can either be very top heavy or hit you in the legs. I have owned both, am 180cm...

No need to do a slow exhale. Inhale. Empty bcd while holding your breath. Then do a quick exhale with a following holding empty breath until you reach 2-3 meters. Then calmly inhale.

Proper decent! Usually people are taught "Exhale, empty bcd, decend" without being told that order is important! 1. INHALE - Hold your breath (Yes, you are on the surface, completely safe) 2. Empty drysuit while holding your breath (If applicable) 3. Empty BCD while holding your breath...

Which light do you have? (Standard Fue?) IN that case you can add a bungy on the thumbside and get a proper loop. ALso adda bungy on top to take care of that "snag tendency"

Very good point. Sharing of load in team. Relieve the diver with problems of taskloading. Examples could be like this, taking empty bottles, camera, lights, being just a little better referance for depth/time and so on.

Short answer... You only ever have this issue if something went wrong. In those cases, you ditch the stages if they are an issue. (Although... I do remember a dive to Hobby where my buddy had forgotten half his required lead, and had just the required amount on his bail-out tanks.) The combo...

In this case, where you are put in chamber because of bubbles, the treatment is compression (of the bubbles) and then a slow ascent to surface with (eventual) oxygen on a mask. Ox tox is normally not dangerous (albeit a bit nasty experience) in a chamber. A normal elective treatment protocol...

Usually, being mindful of placement of top boltsnap not being to far down the bottleneck, and keeping proper length on the lower boltsnap will keep empty bottles in check. If you still find that it goes "vertical" when empty, it is possible to use front (scooter) d-ring to "shorten in" that...