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Did you just accuse everyone of having a brain? I have seen plenty of people that cannot produce any useful information by using their brain no matter how much practice they have :)

I'd disagree with that, diving with a bad buddy is worse than diving solo. When you go solo, you assume you have to rely on yourself and so you plan your actions accordingly. With a bad buddy, however, you expect a person to do certain things, and if they don't do those, you will be in a worse...

I know myflex had some bad press recently (recall and all); so I wanted to ask: does anyone have any good / bad information on carbon hd and and their Xtreme-hi editions. I'm thinking of swapping out rubber hoses that came with computer / regulator / backup SPG and wanted to ping the community...

That would be the same as getting paid for labor and having no discount :) -- you work for your gear

It is not a weapon unless you spear hunt .. if you do, you might need to stab things. That part of padi OW book really amused me : a weapon is a weapon, even if it is not used as one.

Halcyon 4lbs difference, Scubapro about 7+ (AL plate I think is 8.8oz whereas SS is 8lbs) ---------- Post added ---------- Renting your gear will cost you. Putting 8lbs SS plate in your language with the rest of the gear might tip the airline scales towards your wallet. And I like diving with...

Drawing equivalency to seatbelt, this is more like wrapping seatbelt around your neck. Why in the world would you need to breathe from your BC in an OW dive within NDL? ---------- Post added ---------- I would probably bust out as well, though this definitely highlights how much of a 'team'...

standard size SS plate from Halcyon (I think) is 6 lbs ~ 2.7 KG. Travel means AL is a better choice unless you like paying the airlines. Overall, I think it depends on how much weight you put on. If you are doing 7mm / 14mm suit (Farmer John) you might need to go heavy on weights -- not having...

I'd rephrase it a bit: once you learn to trust yourself with your gear all will be fine. Remember the primary life support is between your ears, the rest are just tools to use. The other thing to think about (and to paraphrase) if something is not going right, don't get scared Or panicky, it...

Agreed, and honestly I learned a lot more in my OW class than AOW... AOW was a congratulations card with minimal effort. Also my OW was done in the Caribbean while I decided to do my AOW in NJ figuring I would learn more in cold poor viz waters with current... Nope... my AOW course turned up to...

Does anyone know where / how one can report a safety issue with sp gear? I'd rather not post it in open forums for the fear that I might be wrong. At the same time if I'm not sp need to get involved. If there is an SP rep around here please ping me via PM.

I keep wondering why anyone would invest in a platform that makes money advertising to those that can't buy?

Well, if you are going into %% of oxygen needed (which is far out of scope of the original question) consider that due to increased depth, PPO will go up, I think the minimal surface PPO is .18, which is 18% oxygen, that will go up with depth. The problem is that CO2 levels (in case of BC...

Not sure what doubles would have to do with this other than extra weight, and better distributed weight on your back. I guess there is a question of what kind of doubles Aluminum or Steel. And if AL -- how are you doing towards the end of the dive when you have ~500 psi left (since this is when...

You have to control dry suit for squeeze whether you are tech or not. You won't be able to get enough lift in dry suit alone with tech since you will be too heavy with extra tanks Besides, you want to put as little as possible air in dry suit to avoid air in your legs so it boils down to a)...

But how are you going to deal with inflated bc underwater other than tie yourself to something? And while we are building a scenario what are you doing down there breathing in and out of your bc are you waiting for your buddy are you trying to make your way out?

Ha ... and now you have some DIR group talking up about skill while those who dove with "Anyone who needs a BC deserves to drown" mentality probably smile and wave...

He likes the challenge!

At least you had tables, my class said : "Dont bother with tables, use computers" so when I asked well... where is my manual backup, the instructor tells me , dive computers.... again I asked -- where is the table... In the end, I had to get tables from the Internet.

I would screenshot it and post it for it is this type of an attitude that gives DIR community the bad name. As I said before, I believe some DIR guidelines are sound and make perfect sense, but what I cant stand is the attitude of some people if you dare to disagree with their binary approach to...