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Stroke.

Part of diving with a ceiling (deco or hard) is thinking on your feet, so to speak. How you react is a function of your thought process, your training, and the environment. One option may have putting some distance between yourself and the rocks, perhaps shooting a bag. If there is heavy...

My first choice is dealing with it in midwater. Failing that, I'd blow off a safety stop rather than risk getting battered on the rocks.

Clipping off beats holding the cylinder...

Water "resistance" generally means that any buttons or controls aren't well sealed, ie it may handle getting immersed, but not being operated while immersed.

I have a similar issue with my tec2g. I'll blow dry the leads and hang it up, and sometimes days later it still sits on (note I keep mine in gauge mode - it isn't counting down desat or something). I've taken to pulling the battery after dives. Sucks, but it is what it is.

Wow. Weird. Sad, but weird.

cool - have a great time on your trip

Why did you purchase a doubles wing in the first place? Plan on using doubles any time soon? If not, and you can indeed exchange it, you would be well advised to do so.

I maintain 14-15% body fat (just on the right side of healthy for my demographic). Based on your buoyancy characteristics, I imagine you either have very dense bones or are in the sub 10% BF range, or both. Easy solution: eat some ****ing pizza!

do you carry a SMB? Shoot a bag. Let the spool fall - you can always pull it up from the surface. Now, go hand over hand up the line (note I'm not suggesting to pull yourself up). If you feel the line slipping through your hands, adjust your buoyancy. I find that makes controlling ascent...

He's probably still trying to read this whole thread.

RJP's brilliant summary of SB is still #1. This is top ten though.

Yah, but to those who believe the former, God is the original noob.

If we want to go down the "it's the instructor" path, who's responsibility is it for the original and sustained certification of poor instructors? Lol I said that where? I have no problem with taking non-certified divers out. Hell, I've considered leadership qualifications just so I could dive...

If they loose, don't you lose? :ijs:

Ok, lets say we agree that the taking of a resort course is the student's fault for not browsing a dive enthusiast board before his first experience diving. Who's fault is it that the course exists? The resort offering it? The agency who developed and blessed it? One could go in a circle and...

Nonsense.

Wait wait... are you suggesting that accident rates vary proportionally with course length (i.e. if course lengths were increased, there you be more accidents)? Accident rates likely have decreased at least in part due to improved equipment. I stands to reason that longer courses will...

You misunderstand, I wasn't suggesting you were. I'm saying that - to me - his experience is just as anecdotal as the other one. I also fully accept that my understanding and thus reasoning may be incorrect. Do bungees not compress the wing?