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I love you too Bentley! :-) When are you coming to dive again?

Congrats! It only gets better. I'm over 400 dives myself. Most of them have been cave dives of some level. Here's to many more!

Paradise Springs is a very pretty cavern especially if you get there before the gaggle of OW students silt the place out. They do a lot of OW training there and it is considered an "OW Safe" cavern even though technically is no such thing as an "OW Safe" cavern since OW standards state no...

I am a nurse and although nurses don't make all that much money I am single with no children and the only real bills outside of the normal utility things are rent and a car payment. Because I am responsible to no one but myself and my only other active hobbies are martial arts and running my...

I also have an SMS 100 with Edd's mods and the bungees work great. They are easy to get on and off. I use butterfly clips and gold line for lanyards around my tank valves to connect to my D-rings. I would highly suggest using the butterfly clips. They are so much easier to clip and unclip...

I have a small/medium SMS 100 with the Edd Sorrenson mods and I love the rig. I am only 5'2" and I have no issues with the fit. I guess it may have something to do with how Edd redesigned things but the waist strap fits exactly where it should, at the waist. My only beef with it is that I'm...

I find this thread most entertaining. :-) Personally I don't see why a proven system needs to be fixed. Other than the tanks being on the side there really is no difference between sharing air in backmount vs sidemount. I dive in mixed teams all the time and have no issues donating my long hose...

I'm a deco wimp. 30 min is the longest deco I've had after switching to 02. I average 10-15 min usually. I don't like doing much more than that because in cave diving the deco stops get boring very quickly. One can only play with the fish for so long if there are any fish to be found. :-)

I was hooked the first time I ever dived in a spring. I love exploring dry caves so it was only natural that I explore underwater caves as well. I answered the call of the caves and now it's an addiction. I'd much rather explore the silent beauty of a cave than go through the trouble and...

Hi all, I'm not sure if this is the right forum to be asking this but it's the closest I can find. I am going to be coming up to the Black Hills in August to visit my family and of course no trip would be complete without sampling some of the local diving. I hear there is a city buried under...

Same here, no issues. I carried it on the plane. After they sent it through the xray they didn't even open the case. Just swabbed the outside for explosive residue.

I would be extremely happy getting a 4000 psi fill someplace other than cave country. :-) But then again if everyone was diving AL-80's the extra gas wouldn't matter.

That explains it Bob. It gives me no credit for anything below 30 which would explain why I always seem to get much more deco than my buddies. That's why it remained tied to a reel doing deco all by it's lonesome Thursday at Peacock. :-)

I don't believe the HE calculates with ceiling restrictions. What I noticed today is that the computer automatically jumps to the next conservative level for repetitive dives and the Duo doesn't do that. I'm sure the short surface intervals are what caused my computer to throw it's little...

Hey all, I was wondering if anyone familiar with the Dive Rite Nitek HE computer might be able to help me. Before anyone asks I scoured through my owner's manual to try to find the answer to my own question without success. I have gone on many deco dives with this computer and have never seen...

Hey all, a friend and I are coming down and want to do some shore diving on Saturday. What is the best time to come to the bridge and where do we go? Will anyone be diving there this weekend that might be able to help us? Thanks :-)

LoL! I took up cave diving. I guess my brain damage is irreversable. :-)

I'm not sure if I will have a buddy or not but I have a stretch of 5 days off any I may want to pull myself away from the caves for a bit to use my much neglected OW gear. I'm looking for a dive op that is more tech oriented and will go out to the deeper wrecks and reefs and not to sound...

Hehe! LoL! I still remember the dive at Catfish Hotel when you were practicing with your doubles and drysuit! :-) :-)

That's not right, lol! I was enjoying the video and thinking about how cool that cave would be to dive until that picture popped up. Almost gave me a heart attack, lol!