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Having done that drill myself and witnessed numerous others doing the same, I have to say the time penalty associated with attempting rescue breaths in the water on the way to boat or shore is astounding. For in-water rescue, it just doesn't seem beneficial at all. If I'm a victim, I'll add my...

ScubaBoard has some warts, to be sure, but it is an incredible source of information overall. Anything you need to know, you can find out here, from people with years/decades of experience, with just a few keystrokes. There's no reason to ever quietly wonder about anything, staying stuck by...

Your background music is quite captivating, and a great choice for this video. Artist and title please? Hans Zimmer or Atticus Ross, perhaps? I've got to get this track, whatever it is.

It was exactly this concern that kept me avoiding the drysuit option for so long. I was afraid it wouldn't feel like diving. I'd actually have gone for a drysuit years sooner except I was sure it would feel like being in the water except not really being IN the water. In my particular case--and...

I dive mine in the tropics, and am mostly happier doing so. I get funny looks sometimes--I often joke that when I take my drysuit to the Caribbean, there is then ONE drysuit in the Caribbean. Gearing up with a drysuit in tropical heat is not so fun, and I've learned some strategies to make the...

My drysuit is the only reason I'm still diving. I'd have quit several years ago due to being fed up with getting cold all the time no matter how much neoprene I wore (gave up after even the custom 7 mil suit wasn't enough). It's more of a pain in some ways, less so in others. But getting cold is...

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It's probably just a personal preference thing, but the tang/prong/whatever buckle of the MAKO belt is one of the things I like best about it. I have never trusted conventional buckles and have been thrilled to find something better. It absolutely never comes undone on its own (I've seen...

I can't help wondering what it was like for the diver when it happened, of course. Many people might just freak out, thus endangering themselves. I hope I wouldn't be one of them, but wow, it's easy to imagine wanting to GET AWAY RIGHT NOW upon encountering something like that. It's far too late...

Based on my own experience, my answer to the OP would be to invest in a simple computer for now and then just dive for awhile, renting whatever you need. Once you have more hours under your belt, you'll have a better sense of what you need, and a better sense--based on what you've rented and...

Hey Frank (@Wookie ), you can get your Kindle book now. :)

The book is now available in Kindle format. Because this just happened in the last 24 hours, the Kindle version does not yet show on the Amazon page for the print book, but can presently be purchased at the link below. Both versions should be integrated into a single Amazon page within a week or...

The Kindle version is underway. Just taking longer to get it done than I'd hoped, given the MANY other tasks presently associated with launching the book. I may have it online within a week.

I have since learned that Amazon has greatly tightened their space allowance for reviews, so I was not able to post the full text of the reviews there as I'd planned, or even all of the reviews. You can see them here, however, if you'd like.

The Kindle version is coming as soon as I can get it done. There is SO much to do right now! I may be able to get it out this week, but no promises. I'll post here when it's available.

Elizabeth Babcock has written the most helpful and comprehensive book on overeating I have ever seen … The book is extremely well written and thoroughly referenced. Babcock breaks things down to make them understandable and memorable … This book takes the reader by the hand to design a new...

Hi, my name is Elizabeth Babcock. I am a diver who also happens to be a psychotherapist, one who specializes in work with overeaters. I’m posting here to announce the publication of my new book, Why We Overeat and How to Stop, now available on Amazon.com at this link. I wrote it for the...

Very good point. One of the reasons I come here is to keep the scuba part of my brain active during my many-months-long surface intervals. Casual discussion of stuff I know assures that it will continue to be stuff I know, rather than something I don't even realize I've stopped thinking about...

I see several problems with "do a search" as a response to someone asking a question. It sounds too much like, "You're being a pain ... you're too dumb to have figured out by yourself to do a search ... you're bothering us with your inane questions when we have much more important things to...