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I have 20 year old steel tanks. I bought some stencils and spray painted my initials on them along with a 1 or 2. Not pretty but they are easy to spot. I think there are companies that make shrink wraps for tanks. I haven’t seen many, but they look okay and can personalize your gear. The down...

Probably collapsible travel fins

The Germans love things that are over engineered. This is perfect for them.

My tanks are unpainted, except for my initials, which I stenciled on the side. My kid's AL tanks are black and metallic blue, which makes telling them apart much easier when reaching for a them when one is empty. The paint is pretty beat up at this point. Yellow is a good color choice on...

I grew up in the seventies. Life is so much better now. I can find stores that have clothes that fit, I can online order the most obscure items as long as they are being manufactured somewhere. I can wear an off the rack henderson wetsuit in my size. That has not always been true...

My kids never had trouble finding me in the mall...

I am 6'7" and 240-ish. Gear that fits well is hard to get, also, big guys come with big lungs... I am an air hog and little can be done to fix that. As for in the water, it doesn't make a huge difference in open water. I will let the wreck and cave crowd comment on that. Center of gravity is...

That’s a lot of expectant sharks.

When diving In Belize, the DMs would bring a Hawaiian sling along and they would collect as many lionfish as possible, snip off the spines and take them home for dinner. If a shark showed up, they would stuff the catch in the reef and leave the vicinity so the sharks would find them on their...

Check out the Austrian wetsuit maker Camaro. I have bought one or two suits from them. They are relatively inexpensive compared to a Henderson. I suspect that you you are on the young side and are going to grow and fill out a little more. The quality was pretty good. I haven't bought from...

The newer version of the Peregrine has a compass. The originals didn't. I have one of the earlier ones. The screen is awesome. The induction charging was the killer app for me, having had computers lost to flooding, this was huge.

Leaving with a bad fill is on you. I am never unpleasant, but the shop knows me, they know I look and that i will ask for a top off. You should have at least offered to come back, if you thought they were too busy. Poop happens. If it is a trend, yeah, dump them. It sounds more like a...

$3,990 for a single tank? To do 3 dives a day would be insanely expensive, for a high volume tourist spot. It so be more cost effective to give out perfect trim classes. I doubt these units are going to prevent newbs from rototilling the reef, anyway. I can’t see how this system gives that...

That is very clever. Those are abalone shells pressed into a sand mold? they look really cool with the vintage belt. how did you attach them to the belt?

I would be curious to see what those rescues look like. How fast can this system add ballast if you need to go fetch another dive from the surface? It soesn’t seem suited for a hot drop entry, since you are relying on a water pump pushing against 4000 psi. Are you going to be able to creat...

My understanding of the system is that you fill the tank and the bladder expands to the full volume of the tank. What the fill pressure is I don't know, but, when you get in the water, you use the pump to add water to the tank (outside the bladder). To get that water in, you have to further...

You may be right, I haven't really been following the development of a product I see no reason to buy. I wonder how modular the system is. How much are just the tanks? I usually do three plus tanks on vacation. According to the AI summary, each additional tank costs between $900 and $1,100...

these hydro tanks are likely to come in one size. they are more complicated than a traditional tank, and they are not manufactured on the scale needed to justify more than one tank.

My guess is your overall density really doesn't change much based on gaining losing weight. the configuration of your gear will have the biggest impact. Going from a dive skin to a 3 mm wetsuit or using a steel tank versus an aluminum tank, a BP/W versus a BCD will certainly have more effect...

I was more trying to say that if I had money to dump on improving my dive experience, I would get a lot more out of other investments that would certainly provide changes greater significance than the Avelo.