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That is a point worth repeating. The current Faber coating process is different than the older process. That’s why I’m careful to call them epoxy tanks, *not* painted. Painted tanks are awful. OMS-branded Faber tanks are well known for rusting. The yellow is a dead giveaway: the epoxy has...

I'm a huge fan of hot-dip-galvanized tanks. I'm a pretty big *opponent* of painted tanks, *especially* steel tanks. However, the Faber epoxy tanks aren't really "painted". You can read about it in more detail, but it's a galvanized/epoxy/clearcoat process. It's *very* durable. Objectively...

Here is a quick write-up of my carbon monoxide (CO) calibration / bump-gas setup. I had previously written up my experience as a comment in a different thread (see below for details) but it's poorly named and spread across multiple posts, so I thought I would combine it all in a single...

Grainger. By far the cheapest source I’ve found. Edit: I was tired of nobody (including me!) being able to find my comments about CO calibration, so I wrote it up as its own post: Carbon Monoxide (CO) calibration / bump-gas equipment and setup Hopefully, this will make it more findable (and...

I should have checked that. And that makes buying Chinese tanks a lot more understandable. Sorry for my American myopia. :-) I’m not certain, but that might have more to do with covering the tanks that have already been made than expecting new tanks to be made that way.

That’s always the problem with buying things made in China sold by a Chinese company. Really, that’s always the problem buying things made in China (and elsewhere, including the US), but at least with a US company there is hopefully somebody doing quality assurance of the items that has a little...

That is also the GUE standard for recreational diving. I recently made the mistake of diving a 6 foot hose. That was stupid. It was too long to simply wrap, and too short to conveniently put under a canister. I have a long enough torso that I just left it wrapped and it wasn’t that much of a...

Dark water sucks. Actually, any water you can’t clearly see in sucks. My least favorite dive on earth is 18 feet deep in a nearby inland lake. The water is green, you can’t see anything, and they have sunk things for diver entertainment. You know, boats, equipment, things like that. The...

I thought that was a great question by @johndiver999 and I figured that might be your answer… know this: an ascent to the surface from 60 feet is almost exactly the same as an ascent to the surface from 30 feet. Yes, it will take you twice as long. However, as you are ascending, the gas in...

As a technical diver, this is absolutely one of the steps we do in GUE-style (cave-style?) head-to-toe equipment matching before we splash: “Computer, on and set to the right gas.” That check has absolutely caught both me and dive buddies on multiple occasions. To me, that check is absolutely...

Thank you for that extra level of detail. Unfortunately, that’s mainly a distinction without a difference: what percentage of transmitters fail for a reason other than flooding? I’m not even particularly upset at the change in policy. I’m upset that they bait-and-switched me. If the change...

Not anymore. Oceanic / Huish Outdoors is no longer servicing BM-serial-number transmitters. Details here: WARNING: Oceanic / Huish Outdoors no longer services most transmitters!

Not anymore. Oceanic / Huish Outdoors is no longer servicing BM-serial-number transmitters. Details here: WARNING: Oceanic / Huish Outdoors no longer services most transmitters!

Unfortunately, not anymore. Oceanic / Huish Outdoors is no longer servicing BM-serial-number transmitters. Details here: WARNING: Oceanic / Huish Outdoors no longer services most transmitters!

Unfortunately, not anymore. Oceanic / Huish Outdoors is no longer servicing BM-serial-number transmitters. Details here: WARNING: Oceanic / Huish Outdoors no longer services most transmitters!

Not anymore. Oceanic / Huish Outdoors is no longer servicing BM-serial-number transmitters. Details here: WARNING: Oceanic / Huish Outdoors no longer services most transmitters!

Unfortunately, Oceanic / Huish Outdoors is no longer servicing BM-serial-number transmitters. Details here: WARNING: Oceanic / Huish Outdoors no longer services most transmitters!

Not anymore. Oceanic / Huish Outdoors is no longer servicing BM-serial-number transmitters. Details here: WARNING: Oceanic / Huish Outdoors no longer services most transmitters!

Looks like Oceanic / Huish Outdoors now refuses to service the transmitters with BM serial numbers -- which is the vast number of transmitters out there. These are the typical MH8A transmitters that are used by lots of different computers out there. I bought an Oceanic computer and transmitter...

I can’t believe no one included a link to such an adapter: https://www.divegearexpress.com/dgx-adapter-1-4-inch-npt-male-bc-inflator-qd-post This plugs into a BC inflator hose and converts it to 1/4” NPT. From that, you can adapt to literally anything, including whatever flavor of shop QR you...