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for me to pick it up monday, I imagine that it will have the new pockets , (since I ordered pockets as well)... I'll let you know soon as I get it wet, unless someone else answers first.. Darlene

You called the fins twinjets several times, but from the description of what they could do, they sounded like twinspeed (longer and without the holes in front of the foot pocket)...then at the end, you called them twinspeeds, would you clarify please... Keep us posted Darlene

being over 50 and all.....but I like Darlene better, since it's actually my name. ... now if I could just get my girlfriends to stop calling me Granny.. (I'm the oldest in our group) For the record, I'm almost 6' and height/weight proportional, blonde hair and hazel eyes. I love critters, as...

And each new task you add is another error you can make..The's almost no argument that excellent bouyancy skills and some significant experience best prepares one for doubles and additional tasking. The biggest problem, as I see it is you'll have all that gas, and be tempted to stay down and...

Or is anyone else wondering WHY some one who just did OW and AOW is thinking about doubles!!! That's like having twice as much rope to hang one's self.. Or could I just be having a blonde moment, Darlene

and swim your butt up..once the suit uncompresses, you can use the reel drag to control the ascent..once at the surface at the boat, reel the weight home... Not bad thinkin' for a blonde, eh? Me, I'd still go the Al bp and redundant bladder bc...as previously suggested.. Darlene

of course there are those with double coverage...... Children love to play with firecrackers..most never get burned....but ask the 3 fingered kid what he thinks of them ... What really makes me curious...is here's all these folks swimming around at 100 feet or so, but no thought to...

Seems like it couldn't hurt anything and may help a lot of folks out. Who knows, maybe someday there'll be a GLBT DIR group. We disagree on a lot of things here, argue like blazes over them too, BUT..... gender identity and orientation, are NOT on the list... Welcome to the board, Darlene

Paul mentioned the double buckles, a popular safety trick...and putting it under the strap..If you do both and still loose a belt, I don't want to guess what you were doing down there.... That said, there's always redundant bladder wings..as you said, bc failures are rare, and the chance of...

when you pull in your abs..your chest stays the same..the air is just compressed slightly into less space above the diaphram.. An instructor friend showed me that several years ago..can't imagine it only works for females, lol

I looked back over the posts, and I realized how poorly I behaved... the sarcasm was inexcusable. I wasn't wrong, but the delivery sure was, and I apologise. It's nice to dive with so little weight, you must have a very low body fat percentage, but in reality, most folks need about 4% of...

If I take a drysuit and undies and throw it overboard from the boat.....once any air pockets are gone, don't you think it's going to sink?????... Without inflation, a drysuit's just a body bag... (crushed neo may be the exception, but that's another thread) Let's try the wetsuit math again...

At the surface, assume you are perfectly neutral with empty tank and No air in your bc and a 7mil suit with vest and hood.... Now let's fill the tanks and start the dive... With a full Al80, all else the same, you'll be 6# negative at the surface...so you'll be descending.... As you...

Jplacson said: "Remember that you're supposed to be neutral at 15' with 500psi, and a COMPLETELY EMPTY bladder. This means that at the beginning of the dive, the only additional weight you should have dragging you down is the weight of your air... and even diving doubles... that's not that...

and it doesn't defy any physical laws.... Try inhaling as you read this..expand your tummy and chest.... Now, without exhaling, suck in your gut..pull your tummy flat. You've compressed the air a bit into the chest area and lowered your total displacement...you still have the same amout...

another week of it and I'll be singin' a different tune though. I'm glad it turned out OK. I have a real issue with trusting gear once it's been abused or damaged in some ways.......if that had been one of my doubles sets, I'd never dive it deep again..if at all. Fortunately, my LDS lets me...

Looks like the guys have got a handle on your woes. Probably too much weight Definately not placed properly...the feet down trim position... move the weight higher if possible, and wear the tank higher in the strap if possible. Rising as you breath......This is one of those things that...

that's your average for the dive, but you need to divide by the ata for the average depth of the dive to get you sac.... SAC = Surface Air Consumption You were having a blonde moment, I have them 24/7, Darlene

There's basically 2 ways to get there that have proven track records.... The GUE track that Bwerb laid out... or The OW, AOW, Rescue (toss in nitrox there somewhere too) and regardless of which path you take, Dive a lot and build experience.....If you take shortcuts, you're the one...

You'll find the TP has more flexibility with regards to fitting adjustments and positioning for straps.....great for those who use multiple eposure protection schemes. If you get the weight pockets, they are cavernous, if you use soft weigh, you can get 20# in each of them if you want. I'd be a...