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Cave line or a very tight bungee is ok. Letting it hang when not in use is actually worse because you are constantly rebending the hose at different angles and points every time you dive. Best to bend it once and leave it.

Deco Planner is usually available for free download if you sign up for a Tech 1 or CCR 1 class.

Normally this would be fine, but a lot of diving in the Ft. Lauderdale area is hot drops and/drift diving where a buoyancy check isn't feasible. You need to call the charter operator and see what dive site they are taking you to--is it a drift dive or is it a shallow reef? Depending on the...

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You have a couple of different points of thought woven into here. 1. All CCR courses have a bailout ascent as part of course standards. 2. CCR training might cover some basic decompression procedures, but the primary focus on ccr is not learning decompression procedures--it is learning how to...

GUE doesn't care about spool vs reel. Only requirement is having 1.5x line vs shot depth. Most divers will have it pre-rigged on a 150' or 200' foot spool (halcyon makes a 200'). For deeper depths, they will bring a 400' Primary Reel. I would just keep the dsmb still rigged to my 150' spool, but...

Have a new in the box Light Monkey 10-20W. Purchased a month ago to upgrade to LED, but decided to keep my trusty LM 21W HID. Can send pictures on request. $1,150 shipping included.

He is following the manufacturer's marketing/liability disclosure. Atomic M1s are marketing as "good to 80% O2 right out of the box". He probably wouldn't put a new regulator right out of the box on to a bottle of 100% unless it had a green face plate and was "O2 Clean".

When the high pressure seat of the regulator is failing or has failed. The internal set IP of the low pressure side of the regulator will not stay fixed and will creep up over its set amount. Going too high is one cause of free flows. The 2nd stage is the relief valve for the pressure becoming...

Technically a GUE cert is valid for three years. Renewal is on the honor system and requires going online and stating that you have conducted 25 dives over the past three years at the specific cert and paying a nominal renewal fee to get a new card shipped to you (I think it is like $40, I never...

There is a bunch here that is incorrect. The 4 ratings are tech pas, rec pass, provisional, and fail. Fail means you are completely unsafe in diving and essentially unreachable within GUE framework----there are almost none of these and for all intensive purposes the provision is the fail aka...

This point is completely valid and it covers more than just GUE, but it has nothing to do with the previous point you made above. The greatest educator of any subject in the history of the world can't guarantee a person will complete a course in a set amount of time if the person's baseline...

Personality issues with the instructor aside, that is just not accurate. There are plenty of times a class does not have the current skill level to progress through the whole class. What is the point of having them attempt to do full OOA gas sharing when they still can't ascend correctly without...

Guys, there was no high pressure seat issue with Apeks regs! Listen to what I am telling you. There was no issue. Ignore your eyes and ears, you don't know what you are seeing and hearing. All the experts agree. That is a conspiracy theory and you are denying the infallible quality control of...

While I understand where the instructors are coming from, you would get some push back from that requirement and it would do more to hurt GUE than advance its goals. GUE has high standards and a certain mindset, but they are not immune to market forces. CCR 1 and CCR 2 is a direct example--they...

Yes, six months to do a 1/2 or 1 day fundies evaluation and earn either a rec or tech pass. Anything over six months requires the student to take the course again. It used to be the student had to retake the full 4 day course, with the split of Fundies into Part 1 (3 days) and Part 2 (2 Days) it...

Can you go into more detail on this? What changes in the tax code had an effect on scuba?

My example is exactly what happened only moving one rung up the standard gas ladder. 32% became 21/35, and the 21/35 became 18/45. Diving two different bottom mixes isn't ideal and it needs to be planned out on deco software, but nothing about this plan is even remotely outrageous. The PPO2 of...