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If ya gotta go, dying of a sudden heart attack, on a dive boat, in the Canary Islands, at eighty, is not the worst way it could happen. Beats the heck out of Alzheimer’s anyway.

If there’s jettisoned contraband down there I suppose a more organized search in the daylight will turn it up. And if there’s amber, that’s worth diving for too.

“Didn’t have permission to dive”? Apparently they DO have scuba police in Greece but do they patrol Poland as well? Sometimes we don’t appreciate the freedom we have.

I doubt heat and water alone will touch epoxy, it’s a non-polar thermo-set polymer. You’ll need some sort of solvent like acetone or benzene. If it doesn’t cause cancer it’s probably not enough… Doubt that will do much for the cells future reliability either.

As a drysuit diver I’m kinda doubting it. On the other hand, I never add salt to my food and have never felt the lack…

Relief zip user here. I’ve had two suits with them and obviously like them. Don’t think I’ve ever run into any others so I’m a small minority here! No suit manufacturer offers them standard but they will all be happy enough to do one custom, it’s not complicated. It’s a nice little compromise...

Getting separated from your buddy. Not as common with Caribbean, very easy with the low vis and current of PNW. Spend a moment looking at a cool fish and suddenly they’re gone. You can even lose sight of the bottom and the surface and be floating in an infinite void! It’s no problem but was...

There will always be little gotchas in the fine print, that’s for judges and insurance to pick apart. My inclination is to blame the victim: it was pretty obvious in retrospect that the whole scene was out of control. It’s a more general question though: how should training agencies make their...

Not the paper standards written in the book, they’ll be very thoroughly reviewed, but how about the agency? Does PADI et al. carry some portion of the blame for a lack of quality control among their customers, or is their proper role strictly course development and advertising? Obviously...

I carry a DL20 backup every dive and a DL61 when I know I’ll need it. Had them two years now, about 50 dives. Well built lights, fantastic value. Love the rotary magnetic switch. Lumen values are always drastically overstated on Amazon, still pretty bright though. Would absolutely buy them...

What’s up with that? Ya sure: the law of Mexico is the law in Mexico, but who is smuggling drugs FROM America?!

Haven’t needed any, my unit is ticking along just fine. A bit disappointed by the companion phone app but it serves firmware updates just fine. Very interested to see what they do here with an obvious failure.

Let’s see if that legendary Shearwater service holds true after their buyout…

It’s not a firearm per se, but I think the same rules apply. The speargun is always loaded, don’t point it at anything you don’t intend to kill.

I like full body underwear, makes sense in a full body drysuit. If you’ve already got decent underwear and it’s not enough you should look into electric heat.

I’ve been to St John’s and Bell Island, seemed like I dived everywhere except the wrecks I came there to see! The water is kinda barren compared to West Coast but there’s no shortage of neat little shore dives around. Those casual shakedown dives before the real ones on the boat are valuable in...

It’s because the buoyancy varies quite a bit, from day to day and over the dive. There was a suggestion this diver was from warmer (but still cold) water and had added a few layers underneath. She needed to add lead for that, deciding exactly how much is a judgment call. A low pressure shore...

This thing is available for $90CND in my city. Caught my eye but I’ll keep looking for single steel 100s. They seem to be very reliable but I’ve never liked the look of those high pressure joints.

There’s arguments in favour of having your pony bottle valve turned off and only twisting it open if and when. I certainly don’t know this surviving divers thoughts on the subject, but I’m pretty content leaving mine fully open the whole time. I loose a few pounds every dive but topping it up...

Local supplied air harvesters pushing things way past the limits with dodgy shop compressors is not limited to Indonesia. It happens in the USA too. https://scubaboard.com/community/threads/skipper-charged-in-diver-death.478363/