Ish. Might as well relube the whole thing and do it properly.
-Remove four screws. The connection between this plate and the mouthpiece retainer is the weakest part of the whole system. If it is stuck, do not leverage the mouthpiece to rip it apart. You can deal with this after the below steps...
TDI has attempted to do so a few times, and then a small subset of instructors claim "no, it's still safe and relevant and we don't have options," and then it stays.
Yawn. No relation to GUE or training w GUE. Perhaps consider why there are so few continuing to promogulate 80% in the past fifteen years rather than continuing to espouse such silliness and agency bashing.
And even then, the practice of it grows more and more rare every year ;)
Look around a bit. I doubt you'll find most ITs as the divers you wish to idolize.
Zooming out a bit on this thread, I don't actually think that part is that contentious, ignoring any "there's stuff on my chest" and the large number of people that never seem to figure out how to get the lower half of their Choptima in line with their bodies.
Schools of thought that have been...
Cons:
Shorter (unlikely to actually sit properly as a sidemount bottle)
~6lb negatively buoyant when full with a stage kit and a regulator setup. An AL40 is ~2lb.
Rides poorly, including when empty
Adding additional weight to his right side to offset the bottle will more than likely make him...
Which drysuit dump valve is it? Do you have another suit that you can swap dump valves with to compare?
I’m guessing aquseal isn’t the answer. If you happened to do a leak test, you’d be able to verify that part. If it holes and isn’t leaking from around the valve or at the point the base of...
They’re all totally different and there are a slough of threads talking about each of them. If your goal is to do bit dives off of a boat, a sidemount unit is not the solution. Source: have done some 100m dives with a sidewinder off of a boat. It is a shitshow.
I don’t know anyone that dives a...
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