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Just realized that you havent been on these forums long so you probably havent seen the other hundred threads just like this so apologize for the smart a$$ answer. A shoe isn't exactly a complicated system requiring muscle memory when stress levels rise to the point where critical thinking...

I guess I will need to think about taking Quarry 1 since im moving to Ohio. Oh well, at least people will stop giving me grief for diving a wet suit once I go back to dry.

haha funny!

I think wearing nut huggers for such an extended about of time would make any male grumpy and short tempered. What's the term for male camel toe?

I think it depends on your goals. If you are a certified tech diver or wannabe that wants to go down the GUE tech path and you want a tech pass then yes you should make sure your trim and buoyancy are in order before the class. Many divers can learn a lot of the basic skills just by watching...

Congrats! :) Welcome to the club. Your decoder ringer should arrive in the mail soon!

People are bagging on a guy's gear setup from an out of water pic? Bit extreme guys. Back to the topic at hand.... when are every single other certifying agency going to get with the program and realize that the best way to teach skill is out of water for muscle memory and then and only then...

Why go to 130 in a quarry on a rec dive? I could maybe understand it on a wreck ( ok not really).

so which are you? An a-hole to start with or are you planning on becoming an a-hole now that you are thinking tech? Really bad way to make friends :( Dont know what advice you are really looking for. You got the gear figured out. Just get in the water and start working on your frog kick...

Whats the "time over" deco method? You guys lost me on that terminology.

Good luck and try to have fun with it! Go into knowing you are going to look like a cluster. Dont hold yourself up to any lofty standards as it is a class for you to learn from. Do pay attention to how efficient the instructor is in the water as the ultimate end goal is for you to be like...

Different ways to get there but I ended up doing fundies in doubles and got a rec pass. If you really have the mindset to go into tech diving then get into doubles asap. Doubles aren't really that hard to deal with. I think I had five dives in doubles before my fundies class and after the...

definitely recommend doing a GUE fundies or UTD intro class. Go for a tech pass with doubles. Unless you are a scuba god you will get to see how crappy of a diver you really are. After this if you still have a taste for tech then do another 25 or 50 dives until you can hover motionless, back...

All of my deco dives are off shore and here in hawaii its not uncommon to have nasty swells between 20 and the surface so a lot of times we push more time into the intermediate ranges. So move time down to take advantage of the 02 window and leave less time to get seasick at a 10' stop :) If I...

on a 50% bottle I would usually do 25 mins of Deco as 4,3,2,2,2,6,6 so 13/12 split. I just found a 10/15 split odd. But I like simple so I have no qualms about doing a linear profile this way.

i think that worrying to much about how your fins are grabbing the water is counter-productive. The fact that its so easy to back kick without fins makes me think that you are really grabbing the water with the side of your foot and ankle. In my mind getting your fins out of the way so to...

I think you are right that when you are talking 25 mins or less of deco the shape isn't to critical. My Tech 1 instructor even recommended doing 2,2,2,2,2,10,5 on a 25 min deco dive which surprised me a bit. He really likes keeping it simple for the short deco dives.

making this way to complicated..... just dive doubles and then RB is (almost) always 500 psi in rec limits :)

My brother owns a reef aquarium business on the mainland. it was pretty disgusting seeing how many invertebrates and fish died in shipment when i worked there long time ago. Fish loss probably was at 5% where as invertebrate loss was closer to 10%. Thankfully their is a trend in the aquarium...

So it wasn't liner but it wasn't shaped to gradient or 02 window? How was it shaped? Sounds strange.