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While mine have a carry handle on the BC, I don't really use it. As Eric noted above, I either use the strap on the plate if it's just the plate or plate mounted to the BC or I grab the tank valves if the tanks are attached. If I need to carry it some distance, I put it on. I always carry the...

It really depends on how you want to apply your DM cert. Did you get the cert for your own personal achievement or did you get it to work in the industry.

Another recommendation for DUI here. The one in my avatar is a custom CLX 450. Outstanding suit and has held up great doing public service work and tech diving. Don’t worry about body type, they can make anything. Guys at the dive shop were laughing at me because DUI called the shop as they...

Repetition builds confidence and skill so log the dives. An instructor may question your experience so while you are in the pool, take advantage of that time by working on buoyancy control and other routine skills instead of just resting on your fin tips watching students. If you can show...

This has to be one of the most unprofessional and shortsighted comments that I have read in some time from a "professional" in the diving industry. You hold the position that knowing the actual facts of a diving fatality will provide you, your students, and the rest of the diving community no...

Maybe one of the friends of one of the five divers that have died on that wreck left it there. When I come across items that seem completely out-of-place, I just leave them alone and figure someone must have gone out of their way to put it there for a reason.

I’m just kidding, if it works for you and your comfortable with it then dive it. Many of us will find it confusing and overly complicated but that’s mainly because we are not familiar with it. I use standard doubles and my single tanks use Y valves but who knows, I have my first shoulder surgery...

I would prefer to learn from another’s experience through facts that support a learning point so that others that are engaged in a similar situation or activity can apply the lessons learned to avoid a similar conclusion. I would argue that it is difficult to learn an appropriate response...

Not sure on that one. I purchased the Perdix AI and the price on that appears to have gone up around 150.00 or so depending on what transmitter you go with. I bought the Swift so it was a bit more.

The price for shearwater stuff was just increased as well. You might find a shop that will honor the previous price if you hurry.

I have a few. The V weight was made is SoCal at a dive shop about 20 years ago. The lead V weight is 12 pounds. If I recall, the soft weight is 10 pounds

Save some money and just put some adhesive reading lenses in the bottom edge of your mask…unless you really want a new computer. I finally moved my Heli02 to the spare parts bin and picked up a Shearwater Perdix AI

Many of those are what you might call recent additions as members of WRSTC. IANTD became a member in 2018, NAUI in 2015, SEI and PDIC was 2017, RAID is 2021, SNSI was 2015....you get the idea. Granted some of these agencies have changed over in the past few years but the number of certifications...

One issue to keep in mind is that many certification agencies are not members of WRSTC.

Diving has changed a lot over the years. Use to be just divers and instructors for the most part. Now every part of diving has been broken down to increase the overall profitability of the industry. Why teach everything that was taught 40+ years ago in one certification when you can now break it...

To many unknown variables to make any conclusions at this time as to what happened and why. I have done several recoveries over the years that you thought would go a certain way and it turned out to be entirely different by the time the final investigation was concluded. All we know for sure is...

Not the ideal subject to make my first post here; however, I will see if I can add some info on this scenario. Many dive recovery units have a set policy to not do any type of recovery dives at night. I was a LE recovery diver for 30 years and know of several agencies that have this policy...