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You might want to add, secure the consuls to the BC somehow because it's painful to see consuls dragging across the reef and the bottom.

I'd be willing to go sometime. It is a very pretty cavern if you get there early in the morning before all the open water students get there and start plopping into the place like lawn darts. Yes I have had one land on my head and I have witnessed them land in every position besides horizontal...

There is a dummy line that goes all the way into the cavern. It is a big thick rope that cannot possibly break. There is no need to run your own line unless you want to practice. There is a cave down there though so mind the grim reaper sign and stay out. It's a particularly nasty cave from...

Looks like an awesome cave!

I like the Shearwater Petrel. The standard is 5 gases but they came out with a recreational nitrox mode. The display is so easy to read and it's very intuitive and simple to use. Plus it's full deco computer.

To take cave in gear you never practiced in before is just asking for all kinds of trouble. Caves are very unforgiving when it comes to mistakes. Make the wrong mistake and don't deal with it properly and there is a good chance of you coming out injured or very much dead. There is no running...

I can guarantee that if your buoyancy and trim is not spot on you will not pass any class with Edd. He expects you to have your stuff together before you come. He does not make his classes easy.

My guess is that your camera will probably never be found. I haven't personally been in Hospital Hole but it is very similar to Hudson Grotto. Very dark with thick muddy silt on the bottom and filled with a hydrogen sulfide layer. Anything dropped will be swallowed up by the mud. Someone might...

It's a psychological phenomena called Pareidolia. Which means, "The imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist". Personally I saw nothing but when someone made the Jesus comment then I could kind of see a vague resemblance to Jesus. It's the same phenomena...

I was in sidemount and had the o-ring in the din valve go boom mid dive. Fortunately it was early in the dive so I just shut down the tank and exited. Then another time I had the same kind of o-ring go when I went to turn my oxygen bottle for deco. My buddy was a saving grace that day. Had I...

Yes it is a very good thing but high flow really isn't much fun to swim in. :-) I hear that Jackson Blue is flowing so hard that all but the highest powered scooters are getting stopped in their tracks.

Too bad scooters aren't allowed

I would highly suggest not using carabeeners or boat clips especially if you are in a cave or in any environment where entanglement can be an issue. Line has a mind all of it's own and it will find it's way into the most impossible of places. Diving with clips like that in a cave is just asking...

The caves are no place for anyone prone to panic or even remotely claustrophobic. Conditions can go from good to bad in an instant. One errant fin kick and poof zero vis. You don't want to be in a cave system and discover that your fears of claustrophobia haven't resolved. You will be putting...

Thanks for the info Scuba Girl. Pm sent.

If you need to ask these questions you need to take a decompression class or not do any deco diving at all.

Jim McMichael is a good instructor. However be prepared not to pass. He has no qualms about flunking anyone who doesn't meet the standards.

I agree. Your ears should be the least of your worries. Zero to hero is never good.

I'd like to see Randy try to feed the GW. Likely to take his head off. That's one shark you don't want to feed.

Not to sound harsh but if you can't handle carrying 2 extra weights without you buoyancy being greatly affected, why are you trying to become a dive master?