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Online courses are awesome for continued education and certain classes that don't deal with your core curriculum in college (IE: Electives)... but outside of that, I just don't see how it's adequate.

lol... thats the area you drive on. if you go up stream a bit it's deep enough to at least swim I thought...

They also told us to read our book and answer all the questions in the back before we started class... how many people actually did that? Online classes might be able to replace a crappy classroom instructor, but I'd rather have a good classroom instructor that drills the importance of...

Comparing my SSI tables to my PADI tables, I think the SSI tables are more friendly on the eyes and less intimidating... but both are straight forward to follow. ...now the fact that I took my SSI ow and was never given dive tables until afterwords, and even then they were PADI dive...

Well, I was gonna recommend getting your own analyzer and checking it yourself the next day too, but I see that's already been covered. Worse case scenerio, you get home, the next day the % is horribly off (very unlikely) and you dump the tanks and try again next time. You'll be saving...

:lol: the cat thing is off topic, but I was wondering the exact same thing.

Nothing required, it's completely up to the instructor as to how he wants to find out how comfortable you are in the water. Some make you do the 10 minute tread, some make you swim 10 laps, some make you do laps for X amount of minutes, some let you wear a wetsuit, fins, and snorkel, some...

I went the ebay route for a nice large dufflebag type deal with 3 wheels and handles for local diving where I get to haul all my stuff a long ways on crappy terrain. I've yet to take my gear onto an airplane, but when I do it'll most likely be in a generic no-name suitcase and inside will be...

Its up to you, but the instructor is already being payed. Tip the divecons/divemasters if there were any, becuase they arn't getting paid (so give them cash). If it was just you and the instructor, than it's different circumstances. In which case, I'd only tip if I was a particularly large...

I never had to tread any water, just a few laps around the pool done in a wet suit and some people (not me) wore fins. I didnt learn how to swim until sometime after I was certified. I figured if I knew how to swim, I wouldn't neccessarily need a tank of air strapped to my back everytime I...

The whole lake is lined with houses, my brothers lake house is probably 20 feet from the shore. Thousands of drunk people every weekend drinking on the water and peeing in the lake isn't that big of a deal, but there's no way septic run off from my brothers lake house and all the rest just as...

Kansas is completely barren when it comes to dive spots... you could get an underwater metal detector and mess around in the zero vis at pillsburry crossing off of 170 (ask any of the local college kids, they'll all know where it is. awesome little park next to a water area that people drive...

I have a hard time renting gear that my life depends on... with the exception of tanks, which are inspected and have all the relevant info stamped on the side so I can be somewhat assured they have been properly maintained. Even then, check the o-rings. Then there's always the satisfaction...

Good luck, and don't hold you're breath. ;)

Well ok then, there's no better way to confuse me then to throw in 20 terms that are all similar. Thanks. :)

I think the SSI tables are based off of the doppler ultrasound technology, but I was under the impression that all that stuff was done by the navy too?

:lol: that's about the truth. that's about the only downside to this forum, if you want an opinion, you get 100 long winded ones that all conflict. someday everyone will realize that my opinion is the only right one. :D

That doesnt yank your mouthpeice off as well?

Awesome. I've always had trouble picturing how exactly people use the bungie... but googling regulator necklace brought up this nifty link where you can either by that Manta thing for $10, or it describes with a good picture how to make your own necklace with bungie. For anyone else...

Someplace to dive... It sucks being landlocked. Sucks worse when you're a good 2-3 hours from even the nearest quary.