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I grew up in Texas and this thread is bringing back a lot of fond memories. We used to dive the Vancouver. Normally, the vis was bad and the longshore current was ripping. But on those flat, calm days when the green water came close to the beach, it was a fun dive close to shore that we do do...

Nobody's mentioned 'monkey diving' yet.... But it's for advanced divers...

Scorkl Update.... I've been watching this train wreck for a while.... SCORKL - Breathe underwater with TOTAL freedom This video was in the comments: I'm sorry but anyone who sends them money at this point is just an idiot.

Cool! A thread where I can shamelessly promo my youtube channel! It's a bizarre collection of videos with about half of them diving videos. Also, there's videos on writing fiction and poetry. marinerjack

The Scorkl page of Indiegogo is a regular read for me. I know it's wrong to laugh but some of the comments are awesome. The unbelievable lack of due diligence from the investors is utterly mind-boggling. This campaign has been up for over a year and a half, he's raised 1.8 million and a...

Dude! Keep that thing away from my ear.

Years ago I worked for a tech diving company and we were traveling to an event with checked luggage bursting with tech gear. At check-in, we were 7-8 pounds overweight and they would not let it slide. I had to pull out a tech harness with SS plate and wear it to board the plane. This was a rep...

I was fortunate to get the manufacturers tag line. Otherwise, I might have been a sea slug, tunicate or some other invertebrate.

When I became a dive master, I started to carry redundant air and redundant everything. Eventually, I realized I was safer diving alone than diving surrounded by a group of new divers. As a dive master leading a group, you are less than solo diving. Not only are you on your own if there is an...

In Nasa's Neutral Buoyancy Lab across from their Deco chamber, they also have a 'hypobaric' chamber. A chamber where they can subject people to sudden drops in ambient pressure as training for a sudden loss of pressure in an aircraft or spacecraft. It's like the opposite of a hyperbaric chamber.

In Turks and Caicos, there is a dive site called 'Thunderdome.' It was the set for some kind of free diving game show. From what I understand of the premise, they should have called it, "Embolize for Dollars!" The Dome Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands — by...

I can't imagine the horror of being tied to a group of other divers. I have read too many nightmare stories about the use of buddy lines gone wrong. The absolute only time I ever lash myself to another person is on an ice dive. It's my single rope and my single tender.

oh yes, it's called 'monkey diving.' It's actually a thing.

a random bit of info here.... Your 1st stage is an old Sherwood. In olden times, some Sherwoods had a seat that was crimped into the piston so the entire piston was replaced when the seat started to have problem. At the end of the olden times, during the days of yore they made the seat...

oooo man... flashback The Nikonos III, the '69 Mustang of underwater cameras

I don't have any insights into this specific incident but I've dove in Square Lake a few times. It is a very mild environment as these small lake/ quarry kind of places go. Pronounced thermocline, viz from 2 to 8 feet but no extreme depth or rugged topography. The local law enforcement is very...

oh wow... Blast from the past! Yes, that was a connection for an emergency CO2 inflator. In the late neolithic period as they became extinct, I'd seen them capped off with some type of threaded cap. Not sure what a current solution would be...

Wait... the ad content is just based on your browser history? You mean, there aren't really hot, young, Asian women in my area looking to connect with older, balding men? awww man...

A rebreather diver once told me that he he was always getting hassled traveling with a rebreather (trying to explain this big high tech device to security people.) So he made an official looking document with an eagle, some border trim and the words "Safe for Air Travel" in big letters and...

I really tried but I could not resist this thread. Here's Riley and Charley