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I actually think that hitting a dive boat you can sleep on the night before is the best value. These would include the Peace, Spectre, and Sundiver. For one price, you can sleep on the boat the night before, air fills, dives, and have meals included for the day of diving. While the diving...

Soon I'm hoping. Trying to be the good partner and father pulling my weight so I can get out. Just dropped $400 getting all my regs serviced finally. Looking forward to getting back out. Have fun and be safe!

Farnsworth is one of my favorite reef dive sites in socal. Have a great trip guys!

I've gotten helium and oxygen mixes from Scuba Luv.

If you're looking for something different than the Channel Islands and Catalina, I might also consider the charter boats down in San Diego. They have a ton of cool wrecks and reef sites down there. Good luck whatever your plans are.

If I was coming from out of town on a budget to dive, I'd rather hop on a full service dive boat like the Peace. You can stay overnight on the dive boat, so you won't have to pay for a hotel room. They will also include air fills and all meals for free included in the price of the boat trip...

LOL. It's technically a rocky beach shore entry made easier with steps. ;) Other than Casino Point, I've had the best luck with the Laguna shore dive sites.

Casino Point in Avalon on Catalina Island

Happy to hear you had a great class. Kudos to you for finding a great pathway for your dive progression with an incredible instructor. Bob Sherwood has probably had the single biggest positive impact to me upon my diving. I agree with you that the Primer class is a great way to begin to learn...

My technical instructor pulled the failures in shallow water first. By the time we got to deeper water, we'd already seen the failures and were able to deal with them. My instructor wouldn't pull the stuck inflator on me for the first time in 70 ft of water. He'd first do it in much shallower...

FWIW, Superlyte, in my experience the most publicly derisive and critical of "DIR" divers are typically the crummier and insecure ones. The solid divers I know are confident enough in their own capabilities not to have to publicly deride another in order to pump themselves up. Take comfort in...

This is the biggest reason why the DIR term doesn't really mean much to me. There are at least 4 agencies off the top of my head (and probably many more) whose divers claim the DIR designation and have their own specific protocols. Easier for me to have discussions regarding specific...

I found the service and crew over at Ocean Frontiers absolutely amazing. Those guys work very hard for you. We did a week and a half of diving there and stayed at the resort on site. So nice not having to move your gear after the dive everyday. We left our gear on the boat everyday with...

If you hump a HP130 single tank, you'll get almost as much gas as the twin AL80s. Plus, you'll have less drag than a set of twin AL80s. If you feel that you are getting limited on gas on your dives; dive experience (i.e. dive more), good training and cardiovascular exercise will go a very long...

PADI Max Ascent Rate = 60 fpm NAUI Max Ascent Rate = 30 fpm (as does pretty much every other agency I've trained with)

My point was not to pass judgment one way or the other. Rather, just to make people take a second to think about what they are doing. If you read my post above, I fully understand that formal training may not be the only way to learn. I've just personally gotten a lot out of my own formal...

One thing that strikes me as funny is comments like I dove above my training certification level but was with a highly experienced mentor, so that makes it ok. Mentors and experience have been invaluable to my own dive development, but I wouldn't replace the formal technical dive training I...

The Apollo Bioseal will degrade latex seals. It had a material impact on degrading my latex neck seal on my DUI drysuit over a period of a few months. I believe that the sensitivity of one's skin contributes to the irritation of the seal on the neck area. I've noticed that I typically get the...

Does anybody actually know of the author Bill Doran and what his qualifications are as a diver? I personally would be completely embarrassed to attach my name to such a document particularly when it demonstrates my complete ignorance regarding this style of diving. How does that saying go...

Thanks, Phil. I look forward to getting a chance to dive it one day.