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SSI and PADI are essentially the same in terms of course outline, material covered, etc... get recommendations on a good instructor instead. Chances are if you talk to your LDS about any apprehensions or anything you have, how comfortable you are in the water, etc... they'll try to match you...

I don't see how people on here can defend the shop. Sure, the shop can do what it wants and owes Texaswinds approximately nothing, and maybe the shop was not in the wrong *at all*... but seriously... it shows very poor customer service for something so petty and cheap and ultimately will cost...

both the diver and shopowner were in the wrong, the diver admitted to both of his mistakes in the original post (not inspecting the orings before leaving the shop and not having spares), and he's learned from it and probably wont make the mistake again. The shop on the other hand has shown...

you get cavern certified at oronogo?

I could see why you'd want one though. If I lost my mask, I'd be blindly digging for my spare... it'd be nice to know exactly where it is and have practiced deploying it, and it'd be nice to do it without dumping out my knife/slates/sausages/whatever else you might keep in there.

Most instructors I know do pool work with there kids around 9 or 10... some as young as 8.

You can smell on the car ride home though

I knew there were parts of that class I was forgetting... :D Thanks for clearing it all up.

Yea, all of you are the reason why I would never rent a wetsuit.

My guess is you'd simply need an o2 cleaned cylinder and parts (normally some type of mask so it still works if the diver is unconscious, not normal regs) so it doesn't explode. Becuase nitrox has a higher % of oxygen than air and can be mixed by blending pure o2 with normal air in the...

Yup. If a diver comes up with certain problems, administering pure o2 while getting the diver to a hospital can help alot. Decompression Sickness is the main one I can think of that pure o2 is a first aid treatment for..

I'm unable to pee in my wet suit for some reason, I always run onto the boat, strip everything off really quickly, and jump back in the water in my swimming trunks with people giving me a funny look. Took me years to even be able to take a leak in my swimming trunks... alchohol while...

Hehe... I'm stealing that idea. :D

I've always had trouble finding information on personal subs on the net, but http://www.psubs.org/ is a decent site if to look around and learn about them... (it's a build your own sub type of site)

Imagine the narc'd out sailors launching torpedo's at sperm whales...

Yes, we're basically saying the same thing. Thanks for correcting my definition of a 1ATA sub. You can get/build ambient dry subs though.

Only if you want it too. :crossbone

Dive more. The more you dive, the more relaxed you get in the water and the calmer/more steady your breathing becomes... and your SAC will magically improve all by itself. That's the theory anyways. :D

Typically there's two types, "1 ATM subs" (1 atmosphere), which are pressurized so you don't have to worry about any of the same things as divers, and the more common personal type of submarine is called an "ambient sub". Ambient sub's have the same pressure inside and outside the hull, so they...

I once had a buddy in about 30 feet of freshwater calmy tug on my arm, I stopped and looked at him, he gave me the thumbs up sign... we were in a lake with little boat traffic and near our boat anyways so we were good to ascend. So I gave the OK sign and the thumbs up and that's when he turned...