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I'll be there on Friday and have dived Maui enough to know my way around. I plan on diving near Kihei most days by myself and would likely enjoy diving with you. Send me a pm with contact info if you'd like to dive!

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How does holding weight in your hand on ascent control your ascent? For cold water divers, holding a tenish pound pouch would effectively tie the right hand, making it useless for mask clearing, reg retrieval or any other function. Ascent rate is nearly everything during an OOA ascent, so your...

Planning your dive around advice from a coroner might be a great way to assure your body will be found, but it seems like shoring up the parts of your plan that will actually keep you alive would be time better spent, no?

and hold onto one of your weight pouches so they can find the body when you pass out Jesus, Don....

No, it was an Apeks BP/W. I just re-webbed it for the big guy and added a buckle to the left shoulder strap. This left me without my singles rig, so I dived my pool rig in OW today. My pool rig is a jacket and while the guy I dived with said I looked great, I was all too aware of the...

You should rest.

Well, my OP wasn't about trim or buoyancy control, it was about flexibility and fit. For $12 in webbing and a $7 buckle, we converted a BCD that fits a 180# diver perfectly to accommodate a 6'5"(he corrected me last night), 400# guy. I have always used a jacket for pool sessions and I test...

The main points I was trying to make with the video are these: The harness system can be adjusted to fit a small person, a large man or anything in between. The wing helps facilitate horizontal trim. Good trim and buoyancy control do not take 75 dives to master. Your standard response doesn't...

It's a 30# wing and he is over weighted about 5-7#. Tacoing is a good thing where I come from.

Trust me, he's strong and his doctor says he's healthy. Vigorous is relative. But, I appreciate the contribution. :)

This is a quick clip of a try scuba I recently conducted for an exceptionally robust gentleman interested in becoming certified. fxsKlZ_87xA We certainly had no jacket that would fit, but I told him to come in the next day and we'd spend some time getting him fitted for a BP/W. Since the only...

I believe the adrenalin release triggered by the apprehension and excitement of a deep checkout may mitigate narcosis to some extent. At least that's how I rationalized the fact that most students performed certain tasks better at depth than on the surface. Narcosis manifests in ways that...

Coz DMs are happy to share gas with out of air divers.

I'm not saying there is little value in doing the final checkout in the 100' range, but I've seen more than a few divers holding deep certs, yet lacking the knowledge or ability to plan or execute even a simple dive with anything resembling proficiency. I could speculate on their training, but I...

I think a solid education on deep diving, with a 65' max depth would be far superior to the typical anemic deep specialty having a 100' max. Ideally, a deep specialty would have an emphasis on planning the dive, especially gas planning. Buoyancy control, ascents, themoclines, situational...

I have 3' DSS pre-rigged on a finger spool that goes on every dive. It takes one breath to fully inflate and is used exclusively for deploying from depth. If I'm diving off a boat or anywhere there is a chance of surface separation, I'll have a 5'-7' SMB for visibility on the surface. This I...

I'm an instructor and think knitting is a great alternative to diving, for some. My policy is to be very up front about my standards for certification from the start of class. They are not paying for certification, they are paying for training which holds no guarantee of certification.

Well, that's typically the plan that you sign on for with most charters. There's several good reasons it's a worthwhile plan to follow in most cases: This is the DM's office and they know the features, the life, the best paths and the places to avoid. Without a good DM, most new divers would...

Dave, my posts are not about you, they are about the fin and it's target market. While responding to your post, I wasn't implying your skills suck, but likely the target market could use some improvement which would better serve them than this fin. The fins are marketed on the flip up feature...