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yes the Halcyon webbing is a great product, I changed it to all my plates even when all my other gear is different brands. And probably will stick with the H webbing from now on. most of the GUE trained persons here dive Apeks regs as far as I have seen... they are much easier to get serviced...

just saw a news article with little more information of the Sarkisalo fatality. they were diving in an old mine shaft in the aforementioned Forby mine. it is not a quarry, it is a real vertical mine shaft in the middle of forest going to who knows how deep and the water level seems to start...

I don't have any first hand info. The news articles were very brief especially on the dad and son case. That happened in archipelago in Kustavi in Southwestern Finland. It sounded like a medical emergency but I am just speculating just based on victim's assumed age. The mine diving accident was...

I have been there once last year, the visibility was only about three meters back then in November but it should be more this time of the year. I have understood something between 5 and 10 meters would be usual at this time of the year. the guide line hypothesis was by the Finnish yellow press...

but they would not consume enough air to get into trouble during the whole film's runtime if they would lower their SAC by using fins :popcorn: I wonder why they even bother writing these scenes happening underwater in the first place. The cave sharks could as well fly mid air if they just...

The cheapest ones are painted. The better ones anodized. You can't even compare the durability of anadizing against cheap chinese paint.... It is an entirely different product, NOT "just little bit enhanced and prettier". I have both and the cheap ones can be usable for occasional uses as extra...

I had a middle ear barotrauma last year, the ENT prescribed steroids (pretty heavy doses of Prednisolon) right away and it went away pretty quickly like in one or two weeks. as I have understood it can also heal spontaneously but for me the steroids definitely helped. Your ENT should know best...

Meh. The REAL weight of the tank can differentiate a lot from the spec numbers of the manufacturer and what is stamped on the tank. you need to actually weight the tank by yourself to know the exact weight it has. It is due to the manufacturing process and cannot be helped. I have seen tanks...

It was great that they had the commentator during the first portion who explained to non-divers what was happening when bride and groom were diving into the cave. It is pretty rare in scuba related videos to have someone trying to explain anything in layman's terms in case a non-diver is...

they posted a new link some minutes ago

Wedding ceremony of two cave divers in the air pocket of the Plura cave. the streaming should start in less than two hours :)

you may also test one of those latex drysuits, they technically don't get wet so will "dry very quickly" between dives if that is a serious problem for you. this may be something to consider when eventually going to the Antarctica trip but for local training the trilam or neoprene should be fine...

I would recommend bp/w with drysuit with at least some of the weights integrated. much easier than weightbelts when using drysuits. If regularly diving under ice you may consider using doubles for redundancy (can just turn the freeflowing reg off for a while and let it melt so that you can use...

he probably has twin steel 12L 230bar tanks which are normally filled to betweem 200 and 230bar final pressure but if he would want to overfill them to 300bar the would do the 25' bottom time. thankfully I have a source of cheap scuba helium if I ever need it so no need to go over 40m on...

Air also contains multiple gases including Argon and Helium so I can see no reason why some more Helium cannot be added heh :D

I reversed my XTX50 by myself, it is not complicated if you have instructions for it though it is possible to mess it up couple of ways. A technician can reverse it for you while waiting so if it's not a everyday activity for you to change it back and forth it may be wise to let a trained person...

according to wikipedia and similar sites it should not be life threatening unless the amoeba gets to the olfactory nerve (by getting the water deep into the nose to reach the nerve) and infects it starting to eat its way towards the brain. just swallowing the amoeba water is not life threatening...

If in warm water and thus being able to dive without gloves, it would be an excellent test to write a short couple of page essay about a chosen subject on wetnotes when at 60m and compare that on similar test done at 10 or 20m. preferably also record it with gopro and then compare how long it...

I don't understand why anyone would want to bounce dive to 60m on air for something like 1min of bottom time unless it is some kind of narcosis experiment or just wanting to get "a little bit of deco" for the sake of it? :confused: anything other would require some deco time so would be much...

Never been in those places but if others have similar skin issues in the tropical diving spots is there any change the malaria medication or other regular med could contribute to it? If it's something in the water the last resort would be to dive with drysuit, that would at least help if...