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1- For standard single tank diving, I use a short hose primary standard length octo hose as octo bungied around my neck. 2- For doubles, my primary is on a 7 foot hose (not wrapped around me, rather routed back and forth between the tank valves held with bungies, so a yank pulls all 7 feet...

What about the black rubber bag? Vucanized rubber for me. Of course I don't have to buy, service, or repair it myself. Work gives it to me. Its heavy and bulky, but it dries very fast and is almost indestructable.

Most of my work dives are in a dry suit. Most of my work dives are in the 2 to 3 hour range, usually in pretty cold water (34 degrees a week ago, but that was fairly short). No diaper, no pee valve, I just pee at the last possible minute before suiting up. Unless you're doing those 5 hour...

I just got in from my garage, where I am designing, fabricating and installing a new sway bar system for the front axle on my truck (which is not the front axle the truck came off the assembly line with). This invovles a 230v MIG welder, an angle finder, chop saw, angle grinder, sawzall, auto...

I beleived my seat belt salesman when he told me that was a safety issue. And my air bag salesman. Also, perhaps you could point us to statute or caselaw imposing liability on a dive shop for failing to say that a cutting tool is a saefty issue.

I just got back from a week on the Odessey. Best recreational diving I ever did.

The DM (presumably that's what he was) may well have prevented an overexpansion injury. The student in this case may well have felt supported, comfortable, and all warm and fuzzy topside if allowed to punch out. That nice, supportive, comfortable feeling a surprising majority of people here...

Like was said - swim to reef, determine current (if any) descent to max planned depth, swim into current, at maybe 1500 lbs turn around and start to ascend as you swim back. This is not a rule of thirds dive but it worked fine for me in Bonnaire b/c you can ascend on the trip back to a point...

I do want the buckles, straps, etc. of a trans pac in singles diving. I dive singles in everything from a skin to a drysuit all over the world (so i have to pack it for an airplane). I want the adjustability, and while any plastic buckle is a potential failure point, the chance of that is...

I did provide an example, you missed it. OW certification is not the time to add the additional learning curve you admit exists (see below "select, buy, assemble, adjust and dive a bp/w"). Any BP/W is going to be more negative than virtually any off the shelf BC. A new diver should have...

You will always start an argument on this board when suggesting anything other than a BP/W is the way to go. Everyone thinks their stuff is the best. I have the need to dive a bunch of different buoyancy systems (including none at all) for work and a couple different for recreational diving...

Ditto. Any decent off the shelf BC is fine for a new diver. BP/W/STA is totally inappropriate. I'd really worry about a new diver in the water with that. In fact, I've seen it and that person was a manace to thanselves and those around them. You're not going to be able to buy one "thing"...

Its a really good entry level nitrox compatable non air integrated computer. I bought one for my brother for Christmas a year ago, he's a new diver who mostly rents all his gear, its worked great for him. All he packs for dive gear is mask, fins, snorkel, wetsuit (he kite boards so he has a...

Between work and recreational dives I dive a BP/wing set up with doubles, a navy surface supply rig (the prior all dry), and a dive rite trans pac, both wet and dry. If you're diving the transpac with a single, the travel wing or venture wing will likely be enough lift for you, with the 16 lb...

A BP/W is more complex because of its modular nature. You actually have to design the one right for your set up and know what everything is; even more so if you're talking an actual SS plate and STA because now you're at a point where you may not need any lead at all. Let's face it, new scuba...

Factory tow points will work, but not all cars have these. Before you start hooking to axles, you need some understanding of what the suspension of the vehicle looks like. Normally almost anywhere on a solid axle (i.e. old fashioned 4x4, larger trucks) will work so long as you are pulling to...

The US Navy Dive Manual controls diver exposure with any sonar running a frequency below, I think, 250 kHz. Plenty of military and civilian applications run low freq active sonar, and have been for decades. Higher freq sonar, used in commercial diving and search/recovery operations, are...

Local dry land public safety folks relying on self funded volunteers for public safety diving sounds like a recipe for disaster. Not only does doing this stuff require special training, but doing it safely is a team sport with very expensive gear that is unfamiliar to most recreational divers...

Nope, nope, nope, so wrong. You can sit idly by and watch others die. No legal problem. Absent a duty to act (as has been pointed out), such as a student/instructor relationship, you'll win that suit in the preliminary stages. As has also been pointed out, anyone can sue anyone for...

This isn't rocket science, its just dumping air from your BC. Get a dump valve over the top of the air bubble and dump. There are too many BC types, body types, tank/weight trim methods to lay out a step by step. You need to figure it out for you on your gear.