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Another great GUE fundies instructor that travels in the area is Leon Boey based out of Singapore. He can be found at Living Seas - GUE Training and Scuba Diving in Singapore. They also organize tech trips in the area.

What do you plan to use the light for? Is it just for illumination or also for signaling? In what environment? I have a LM 21 watts that I am very happy with. I use it mostly in technical dives for signaling and went for an LED vs an HID for the increased robustness. Up to now I have not had any...

My team mate Alan just posted a description of the underwater portion of this dive in his blog. From his description you get the picture that the currents were fairly localized and also he describes nicely our deco. In my post I said it was relatively uneventful. In fact it was kind of funny. We...

We had been diving with this boat crew for several days (and had dived with them on previous years). They know the area well and are normally very close by when we ascend. The normal procedure there is to shoot an SMB as you drift and they collect you. I am not sufficiently experienced to know...

Only after the dive :cool2: To be honest, by the time we were at the surface we felt lucky. The ocean drifting was not such a big deal, the surface was flat as a pancake and we were in the middle of a group of islands with reasonable boat traffic. Someone would have seen us eventually, and...

Yes, the problem was that the current was so strong down and we were fairly deep already that we were not sure we got get away safely. As I mentioned, two of the team members dropped to 64m in a few seconds. It might have worked fine to swim outwards as quick as we could, but at the time, it...

I thought I would share a recent experience that really drove home a few lessons and made me very happy about the training me and my team mates had received. Some background. The site was in Bunaken island (Sulawesi, Indonesia), known for its incredible wall dives. The plan was for a technical...

Congrats! After diving those cenotes in June I was pretty sure it wouldn't take long for you to give in to the call :)

Thanks, that was useful. I was too afraid to do the valve installation, and got the dealer to do it, so the only thing left to do would be the hole in the skin ... and that should require less courage :)

Okay, I am sure this is a silly question ... but I just received my fusion bullet with a LightMonkey p-valve installed by the dealer. The installation looks fine on the dry core, but there is no opening on the bullet skin for the valve so the assembly is beneath the skin. Is this the way it...

Yep! The tip about pulling from the core really helps get the thing on properly. It is really not any more effort than putting on a 7mm wetsuit.

I can't ski yet ... so diving will have to do ... even if it is through ice :cool2:. I hope to get to join the Rock Lake trips at some point. I have some tech training (GUE T1) already as John mentioned, but almost no drysuit experience, as I used to live in tropical Singapore and I did most of...

I am back in Boulder on Saturday. Any trip or training upcoming? I would love to try the new suit and get some tips from other fusion users :blinking: I am considering taking a drysuit course (either UTD or GUE) given my lack of experience in cold waters ... but I am not sure it makes sense. Any...

Tried to post some pictures in the post and failed miserably. If you want to see some pics side by side, they can be found at: Picasa Web Albums - Antia Lamas Linares - Whites Drysuit Hope this works.

I just received my Whites Fusion Bullet. Deciding on this suit and the options I chose were quite a long process and I agonized for quite a while between this and a TLS350 from DUI. At the same time my husband went through the same process and decided to get the TLS. Now I have them side by side...

Boulderjohn, your timing is perfect! I am moving to Boulder next week. I will give you a shout about that NM dive when I am there with all my gear, would love to join you for that :)

Hardest thing for me was keeping completely horizontal while task loaded ... I tend to go head up when too many things happen at once :dontknow: Oh yeah, and when I tool tech 1, it came to haunt me again when the task loading was increased. In both GUE classes I took, the "hardest" thing was...

If you find a solution that you like, please post pics. I think there are a few of us with that problem. I like the idea of neoprene or hose insulation secured with zipties, I might try that next time I get in the water.

If you feel that way about the PPB class, and you like to get some good instruction and feedback about your diving, you won't go wrong with a Fundamentals class. The class really drills control and awareness in the water. It is meant to tell you where you need to improve and give you the tools...

Ok, it seems you like the same type of masks than me :cool2:. I started with an Atomic frameless and did not like it, then got an Oceanic mini-shadow and loved it (I have tried my husband's full sized shadow and it works equally well). After putting around 200 dives on my mini-shadow it is...