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That's what I thought I remembered seeing. Issue #1 is can you swim your rig back up. Issue #2being if you ditch weight to swim it up, you risk an uncontrollable ascent.

A while back there was some discussion about the dangers of diving deep and/or cold with a wetsuit and steel. I've searched and can't find the thread. Could someone point me in the right direction or summarize the dangers of the scenario. Thanks, David

I thoughts are the same as yours. I dove Chac Mool Oct 08 and got hooked.

Here's a link I use when converting different units when I'm too lazy to do it by hand(which I could if I had to). The problem is like Rick said, the CUFT is pressurized. When you stick in 11 liters and covert it to CUFT, you only get .39, which would work if we didn't like any pressure in our...

I just looked at the standards for 2009, and this year they have a "Dive Guide" and Divemaster" rating in addition to DiveCon. I wonder if these will also require insurance?

I know, I know. All the theory in the world isn't the same as doing it. But the part that really hits home, is the part about cutting into beer time.:shocked2: We just can't allow that to happen, can we?;)

True, which is why I was thinking that for a given weight of neoprene, whether it be in the form of a 7 mil XL, or a 3 mil shorty, that particular weight would correspond to x-amount of lead. This assuming, of course, the individual has on the correct sized suit.

After a search I didn't really come up with anything. I was curious if there's a basic guide as to how much buoyancy a particular thickness/size of wet suit would have. The only consistent way I could think of was measuring suits to see how much a particular suit weighs vs. how much weight is...

I've got one of those Casio Wave Ceptor from wally world that resets itself everynight for about $40 and never had a problem. Curiously, the watch is rated at 50M, but the back of the casing says it's rated for 5 bar, which isn't the same. Somebody didn't think that thru. On a side note, a...

index. the first paragraph on 2-7 has what you are looking for.

I think you took the post out of context. I don't think he meant to imply that every single item they sell, they sell unauthorized. I think he meant more of along the lines of what you are saying, that they are authorized for most of what they sell.

We carry these at the shop, and to my knowledge they aren't discontinued. They do have a new color scheme for 2009. New Wetsuits 2009 Also, have you tried their Quantum Stretch? It seems to be stretchier.

I think this makes more sense on paper than in practice. Simply because no matter what you think the future will bring, you won't know until you're there. Kind of like if I think I may want to be a NASCAR driver, so the first car I buy is a race car. This has NOTHING to do with the pros or...

I agree with letting the instructor do his/her job to avoid any possible confusion. But I'm curious, has she given you any reason for you to believe she can't handle the math, what little bit there is? Your other two kids must have got it ok. Or are you looking for possible back up plan just...

I have the Classic and the QD. My first BC was the classic. In my experience, it's very stable in the water and definately keeps you vertical at the surface, which was important to me when I first started. As my diving progressed, I wanted something a little less constricting and went with...

Where is the option for @#$% no!!! I was talking to a skydiver once about scuba diving, which he seemed to be leary of. I finally told him that if something goes wrong in either sport, we're both going to end up at the surface, but I like my chances better coming from the bottom up, rather...

I used to occassionally get minor cramps, then I found these and tried them. Now, I don't know if it's in my head, or they actually work, or a combination of the two, but cramps are virtually eliminated now.

Agreed that money probably plays a large role in deciding which activity people wish to get into. And as everyone knows, scuba isn't the cheapest thing to get into, so younger people may put it off until their cash flow improves. Also there's that thing about 50 being the new 40, 60 the new 50...

I guess what kills me more than anything is the "if you don't do it this way or that way, you'll surely die" attitude some people have. Clearly there isn't a one size fits all approach to all the different types of diving that people do, so why try to make a single standard and apply it across...

My DiveCon course was around $850 for class and materials if I rememeber correctly. It took me 16 months, but that was while I had a day job and worked in shop time on days off, weekends, etc. One of my preliminary concerns was that I would be a glorified "tank toter" as I had seen at another...