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I'm not 100% sure which is bigger, but if it's $10 vs. $35 I don't care. Especially if they fall off and you have to keep buying them.

I'm happy with my DSS BP/W, but it's the only kind I've tried. I dive cold water with a drysuit, so my experience is quite different from your Florida diving. DSS offers several features that I don't see on other brands. The wing has built-in rubber tank stabilizers, so I don't need a single...

Put the word "Dive" in front of your product and you can automatically charge 100% more. I bought the regular Optix stick-ons (OPTX 20/20), for about $10 a pair. The regular ones are larger than the dive ones. They do fall off after a while, and I'm on my second pair now, but they stay on long...

I know about the Analox, what's the other one?

I'm not trying to convince String, or anybody, that they need to buy a CO analyzer. It's just something I've been curious about, and I wanted to know what other people think. Thanks to all for your responses. I think the risk of CO poisoning is low, for the same reason String mentions: there...

I smelled it when I cleared my mask.

Have you ever detected any kind of odor in the air from your scuba tank?

I understand that CO is undetectable, but the fact that the air smelled weird made me think that maybe there's something else in there besides air. One time it smelled kind of like plastic, but unlike anything I've ever smelled before, although I have detected that same smell (much fainter) in...

Interesting. I can understand why somebody might say, "I wouldn't get one; I don't think it's necessary." But to elevate that to "You shouldn't get one; you're being paranoid" is, well, I guess I just don't understand why somebody would say that. What do you care what I do with my money? For...

I guess I'm not really surprised at the responses, perhaps a bit disappointed. People believe what they want to believe, despite all the evidence. Only in this case there isn't much evidence either way. I'm generally skeptical, so I'd rather make an effort to find out myself, rather than just...

Yes, it's surprising how quickly you get away from your neutrally buoyant depth when you are concentrating on something else. I think more experience will make it easier to maintain depth without putting much mental energy into it; it just becomes second nature. Kind of like being able to keep...

Even though we have been practicing shooting the bag and using the line to guide us on a free ascent, I chose not to do that this time because: - every moment spent deploying the bag would have delayed our ascent - my buddy clearly wanted to get to the surface as soon as possible - there was...

I spotted Force Fins on the cover of Betty Pratt-Johnson's book 151 Dives in the Protected Waters of British Columbia and Washington State http://www.scubadiva.ca/assets/book-cover.jpg

Thanks, all. We ended up going out with Steve on the Sun Fun, and it was great. We also did four shore dives (one at night) at the boat ramp near Port Hardy, I guess that's called Bear Cove. Tent camping and shore diving in the rain, that's real PNW diving! Glad it didn't get cold! We stayed one...

It's not that I don't want to hear criticism or discussion, but it ought to be obvious that the whole idea is only valuable to people who log their dives and collect souvenir stamps. Your profile states that you don't log dives, so why are you even chiming in? The whole point of the thing is...

I'm always torn between wanting to interact with, or at least just look at, these neat animals, but can't help feeling guilty when we make them squirt ink because that means they're fearing for their life. At least we don't kill them and eat their flesh. And who knows? Maybe somebody will see...

Actually, I've been fantasizing a lot lately about owning a boat I could dive from, and since everything else I do is other-than-fossil-fuel-powered, sails and oars would be the way to go. Until your post I hadn't put much thought into how fast I'd get bored with the limited range a slow boat...

String, you've already registered that you don't like the idea. Fair enough; it isn't for everyone. But if you are going to keep on adding negative comments, I'm going to have to classify you as a nattering nabob of negativity.

Dude, you're bringing me down. Getting somebody to e-mail me or use a USB stick is way more complicated than just pointing our computers at each other. The file can be tiny.

I still keep a paper log book after 300 dives. (#301 night before last, woo hoo!), but I also enjoy the added features with the Smart Trak electronic database log that came with my Uwatec computer. As people move away from the paper log books to E-logs, we're losing one of the fun parts about...