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This f*cking sucks. **** lawyers and **** ignorant dive operations.

I think this part might be confusing people as it's kindof October. Are you looking for internships in the southern hemisphere? Actually, that's always confused me. Is December in the middle of Summer in the Southern Hemisphere or is it just hot in Winter down there? Anyway... my little...

As I understand it, repetitive diving is where the RGBM model makes up for it's single dive conservativism. While someone with a Pelagic may have oodles more bottom time indicated on dive one after a few days of repetitive diving the Suunto will be the one allowing longer. On the recommended...

Single Steel 100s Repetitive yes, a whole lot... not really. Not enough to destroy bottom times. Loaded everything from this weekend into the Suunto dive manager which reports my SAC has dropped down to around an average of .62 or .63. Not yet where I hope it can one day be, but it's...

That's why I'm really psyched... not only was it a computer computed bottom time... it was on a pretty healthy nitrox mix. Now, it is a Suunto, which I know is often like an overly-careful Grandmother about times, but I'm saying...

This weekend was the first time I had to end my dive due to NDLs instead of gas supply. I'm pretty psyched about that. I know it's stupid, but I feel like a better diver for it.

Stare at the horizon. I'm violently prone to seasickness but when I stay above decks with a little breeze in my face and keep my eyes pretty well planted on the horizon I'm OK. Also lots of water and a bite of fruit helps me. In the end it's about keeping your system well aware of the fact...

The mosquito kicks ass.

I'm going out with Discovery in Morehead City on Friday. As of today I'm still the only one with my name on a piece of paper on it reserving me a spot, but Discovery assures me that there are a couple of other people coming... so the boat will be going out. I know Morehead is a little ways...

I remember having read a thread here about the math of diving the Titanic on open circuit and I remember the final figure being something like you would need a mix of .4% O2 in your tank to rock the 12500' depths, but I can't find the thread. Regulators? Am I just not looking in the right...

I'm curious about this statement. Why would this be? It would seem to me (as someone with about 50 quarry dives and 4 -- my checkout dives -- in tropical paradise) that the reverse would more likely be true.

Chalk another vote up for the Mosquito. Little, handy, all the useful info in a very natural to read display. And the cincher, for me, user-replaceable battery.

I took a PADI course that lasted two nights during the week, then two weekend days in the pool followed up by four open water dives. At the time I thought, "Well, I've done the resort course and that's not hard. How much more can there be to it?" Some 50 dives later I recommend the two to...

Except for the little ones with the pretty cobalt-colored rings. When they start flashing those rings that means "Come play with me, extremely stupid person. We'll have tons of fun."

Another thread got me to thinking, what other mutts out there actually enjoy diving in the quarry. I'm not talking about "as compared to not diving," I mean actually dig flippering around the old swimming hole just becuase it fun. Something I often hear uttered around my local quarry is "If...

So after about one year there will be a comparable drop in piracy just as there is a rise in recompression facility attendents.

I hear that's how the '49ers used to dive. Those in especially mountainous areas ought to consider llamas, though. They're much more agile in a pinch.

Lake Rawlings here in VA has these big, off-road, kiddie wagon things to schlep from the parking lot down to the dock. They're pretty damn handy.

Yeah, that's what I figured. So I'm going to Puerto Rico in February. And then Millbrook opens back up in April so that's no time at all. But that's a hell of a long time from now and I don't want to be out of practice for PR, so I figured I'd go down to the Keys in December. But even that...

ie: The air in your lungs when freediving to 100fsw is at the 4ATA you would have breathed from a bottle, there's just not enough of it to keep you lungs at the normal volume. Thereby, the reason freedivers do not usually get bent is not because they aren't breathing compressed air...