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I wonder what lessons to be learned will be able to be gathered from this movie. Open Water: Don't dive with crappy dive boats with no proper diver count system. Always carry a safety sausage. Stay away from ferocious white tips sharks. etc. etc. The Cave: Rule of 1/3s Three lights...

Sorry if this has been mentioned... So ADM is reporting the imminent release of a movie about a bunch of cave divers that get attacked by vampires or something. Anyone heard anything?

Was in the keys last week. Rental house on Marathon with my wife's family. Friday night was beautiful, everyone was sitting down on the dock getting ready to watch the sunset over the Gulf and looking at the parrotfish and the lobsters under the dock. "Look," someone said, "What is that?"...

After I got my regs serviced one of the o-rings kept popping out. I discovered that though, to the naked eye (at least when they're not right next to eachother) the yolk tank valve o-ring and the din captured ring are nearly identical. The din ring a hair thicker and a hair smaller in...

So I glued a pocket onto my 3mm last night, but I kindof overestimated the area of the pocket on the drysuit side, resulting in about a 1/4 inch smear of dried Aquaseal along the length of one side of the pocket on the neoprene. Obviously doesn't affect anything, but it's a grody looking...

No way, homes. I find myself FAR more comfortable even with an AL80 and an STA than I was with a Zeagle Ranger. Whether that was a function of me, the ranger, or some alignment of the stars, I don't know. I'm just saying...

Without an abundance of Dramamine I'm done for. Number 5 without a doubt every time. With an abundance of Dramamine (starting the night before), focusing on the horizon, staying in the fresh air, and lots of water or soda and I'm fine. Maybe a little nauseus at the end of each ascent. My...

Should have been more specific... I'm not trying to get "how to" input. I've got no worries putting some grommets in. I'm just wondering if it's a good idea to begin with. That is, is it going to accomplish my goal of easy drainage easy peasy... or is it just going to wear a hole in my...

Dive Rite wings drain badly. After a dive there's about 10 gallons of water stuck between the codura and the bladder. This isn't such a big deal with my Classic wings, which I just hang upsidedown to drain through the zipper. My Venture wing, on the other hand... the zipper is in the middle...

... if it were underwater. I've found, since I discovered diving a couple of years ago, that nearly everything would be better underwater. The most mundane would be rendered fascinating if only it were covered in wet. I sometimes drive by the old navy yard in Philadelphia and always find...

In class they'll let you close your eyes during mask flooding drills to keep your contacts. BUT In the "real" world you probably won't have warning that your mask is about to flood and will, likely, lose a contact when/if it happens. If you need them to find your way back to the boat I'd...

Andy's DS3 here. About 50 dives and loving it like a bee loves honey, but like Jason, nothing to compare it to, so...

Back arching, yes... that's the only way I can get those two liftbags under me at 10 feet or so. Proper boots? By this, do you mean sock/rockboot combo which, I must admit, I'm kicking myself for not having opted for in the first place?

The suit is a shell, it's just the boots that are neoprene. Suit actually fits near on perfectly (custom), though I do have to cinch down the calves with some gators (there was no chance on getting my big 'ole feet through tight fitting calves).

I'm about ready to give up. While drysuiting it is ALWAYS an argument with air and gravity to keep my feet down north of about 30 feet. As soon as I'm under that ceiling, or thereabouts, I can take and maintain any body position I like, having most of my weight in the thick SS backplate...

You know, maybe I'm just exagerating. On the upside there was the dense and dramatic wildlife. Damn near like Bonaire. Instead of coral, though, it was vast clouds of algae bloom. And instead of denizens and denizens of reef fish there was a single sluggish bass and a dead frog.

cold!!!!!

Just a marginally related update, for those of you interested: I called Diving Concepts yesterday... they're still working on making a glove mounting tool. No ETA on when that might happen. I'm figuring on just making my own cut-PVC version, but for right now the gloves are mounted and I...

Another thread (the snorkel one, actually) got me to thinking... What does DAN consider an accident as far as equipment coverage is concerned? More specifically, say I'm out in the ocean, get seperated from my buddy somehow, and I come across a diver on the bottom... face down, reg in...

Sorry. Forgot the word "dry" in the title. Is there a reason not to use these as a dry glove liner?