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  1. ScubaSixString

    Quick tank question.

    Get certified and you'll realize why noone can answer your question. You've told us nothing of SAC, Depth, Exertion, Water Temp, etc. But to help you out, should you decide to buy this 6cf tank anyway, I have a 19 CF tank that will only MAYBE give me enough gas to get back to the surface...
  2. ScubaSixString

    REALLY stupid questions about hard hat diving

    Notice they aren't wearing fins, or a BC. Thats because bouyancy isn't a concern, as long as it is negative. They were liffed in baskets and lowered that way. Deco was probably done dry, in an on ship reco chamber. I dont think the suit WAS pressurized. But if it was, there was no way for...
  3. ScubaSixString

    Boston Sea Rovers

    DAN memberrs. DAN is offering a $5 discount on tickets for Sunday. They should have sent you an email.
  4. ScubaSixString

    i got narked

    I'll spare you the details, but lets just say I was somewhere I had no business being, at 85 feet, and my masked fogged up. If there is one thing I know how to do, its clear a mask. I'm quite comfortable with it. I couldn't see more than about 2 feet in front of me. It was dark. I was in a...
  5. ScubaSixString

    New divers and computers

    So you're in favor of just throwing the tables out? This instructor is, in my opinion, doing his students a great disservice. If and when they go to get any further certification, they're going to need to know how to use them, unless, of course, they go back to this guy. The problem with...
  6. ScubaSixString

    Why Nitrox

    You'll hear that until you can reach the NDLs for diving on air, Nitrox is useless. But that fails to take into account the reduced SITs you'll have. Diving nitrox might allow you to get in 4 or 5 dives where you'd only get the chance for 2 to 3 otherwise, by reducing that surface interval...
  7. ScubaSixString

    help with finding the gear I need.

    You're not certified yet? Save yourself a ton and buy the bare minimum for your class. Mask, snorkel, fins. They'll rent you/loan you the rest. If you get your cert in the type of water you'll be doing your diving in, AND you still feel you'll be diving more than once a year, then...
  8. ScubaSixString

    Signed Up For Intro Cave :smile:

    Blueprint for survival mentions not having to be touching the guidline but be close enough to reach it should things get soupy. Unless i dreamed it.....which wouldn't suprise me.....
  9. ScubaSixString

    Signed Up For Intro Cave :smile:

    What gave it away? The perfect body position, the snorkel? That handy dandy "cave" light? Them being obviously within arms reach of their guideline? Or their super-streamlined gear config?
  10. ScubaSixString

    Can anyone identify this suit?

    I second the call for an OS systems. It looks identical to a suit i bought off ebay (still waiting for it to arrive). I'm going to HAVE to have the boots replaced. These size 13s screw up just about anything "off the shelf"
  11. ScubaSixString

    Dive books...

    Then the last dive is out. Same story but focused more on the rouses (from chapter nine i believe ;) ) Exley's "Cavern's Measureless To Man" was quite good. "The cave divers" is also good, but is very "history bookish"
  12. ScubaSixString

    DIN and Yoke..1st stage modifications

    They, that mysterious dive shop called they, sell DIN kits for most yoke regs. Installing one, from what i understand, requires removing the yoke fittings and installing the kit. That makes your reg DIN. You can buy a yoke adapter to make a DIN reg fit yoke tanks. I'm not sure here, but if...
  13. ScubaSixString

    Medical Diving Question

    MOST LDS's are going to require you to be cleared medically before certifying you. (I don't remember having to go through it 10 years ago, when i was certified, but then it took me 8 years for my c-card to show up ...so there you go ;) ) Not sure what the specifics are between CP and diving...
  14. ScubaSixString

    Check-mark profiles and repetitive dives

    If you aren't deco diving, you don't get to count deco credits IMHO. Do you give yourself "points" for your safety stop? You may not be "off-gassing" at all. If you dive to 120 ft for 3 minutes then come up to 80, you might be on gassing still.... What you describe is a multi-level...
  15. ScubaSixString

    PADI Enriched Air Course

    I did SSI's nitrox, but know how to use your tables. Know them cold. Know how to do repetitive dives on them. The one problem that anyone had in my class was that. If you haven't used the tables in awhile, go back and practice. A computer can make you rusty :)
  16. ScubaSixString

    Tec Equipment

    No titanium. And it will need to be O2 cleaned and serviced (can be done after you buy it usually). For caving, i've heard it suggested you get one you can take apart with no tools underwater.
  17. ScubaSixString

    Question on solo dive travel

    Hmmmm. Somebody, in this case me, is misinformed about the DIR community?.....now that IS a shock ;)
  18. ScubaSixString

    Question on solo dive travel

    An experienced diver who refuses to dive with a newbie might find himself sitting on the boat, if the newbie is the only other diver available. On several occasions I've seen folks show up solo. And they get paired up or trioed up (you DIR folks can go ahead and gasp ;) ) before the boat...
  19. ScubaSixString

    Lock's that work underwater?

    1>Be safe. Putting weights on without a BC of some sort might be dangerous. Don't overweight yourself. 2>If you can place it by snorkle, i might still put "requires scuba" in my description. Placing it is easier than FINDING it.
  20. ScubaSixString

    Lock's that work underwater?

    Not true. As with all things, the rules of the game you play might be different. But geocaching.com SPECIFICALLY mentions underwater caches "Where are caches found? The location of a cache can be very entertaining indeed. As many say, location, location, location! The location of a...
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