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sounds like the Finnish scuba shops don't have enough customers and they thus want to give the best possible experience they can whereas the US shops have maybe even too many customers and thus they don't need to treat them nicely all the time :coffee: mind you that I have only known the LDS...

We have pretty good national health insurance for all the citizens covering chamber treatments etc so it might have something to do with it. as said the service parts are very easy to get for Apeks here (they are listed in the shop catalogs and webshop pages like any other product) but if you...

I can order at least Apeks parts freely here from multiple places. Though the LDS can sell them very cheaply if I let them install the kits as well so I haven't bothered doing it by myself :p have not seen other regulator brands parts for sale so far except the cold water kits so it can be an...

I asked from the local shop about this course and they are happy to show the regulator insides and how it is serviced but for liability reasons it is not guaranteed one can do any service to a regulator after that (and the shop owner's opinion was that a normal diver does not usually need to...

I was taught to insert a small wrench to the correct flat surfaces on valve body and then give the wrench a little knock with a rubber mallet when installing or removing a valve. NO excessive force used, the tank pressure will keep the valve in place after its pressurised and impossible to...

my XTX50 always does a very clear honking sound on dry land but on my older ATX40 it is lot less obvious. nothing wrong with the regs, just a design thing

if I understood the details correctly it seems to me that the problem was mainly about dropping the stage tank too far away (moving slower at first because filming at the start of the dive but still dropping the stage based on pressure so that when there was more swimming later on the stages...

basic regulators are very simple piece of gear and a handy person could probably assemble one from scrap metal in garage using just basic metal machining tools. that said, the quality control and quality of the materials and the actual design may still vary a lot. And there will still be...

spending maybe thousands of bucks on scuba gear and then cheaping couple of bucks on the training, that one goes over my head :shocked: I can't even get a decent diving light with the cost of a nitrox course here so the course prices are the least of my worries but maybe in some warmer parts of...

yes it is good to take courses from multiple different instructors so that you'll get more perspective. I had my OW with one instructor and the Nitrox with other and doing AOW and Deep with the third. will someday later take technical diving courses from two other instructors and maybe doing...

the price does not matter if the instructor is good and brings some extra value to the course. if the course is lacking and the instructor is bad I would not take that course even for free :poke: it is about learning new things after all, not just getting a coloured plastic card to show to the...

here the padi nitrox course without dives is typically from 100 to 150 euros including the materials and other costs. Mine was 150 euros. read the book (only couple of dozen pages nowadays) + do the exercises in the book and do the couple of hours classroom session + multiple choice exam + tank...

with single tanks where the weight shift during the dive is small it is easy to use only the suit for buoyancy control which is how I was taught to do it on padi course. Your bc is basically empty underwater and you will use the suit instead for buoyancy so that the squeeze is never a problem...

there was more regulations here in the past but most of them were lifted and almost all of the others are rarely followed strictly as far as I have seen. even the tanks are rarely the "proper color" painted for scuba air use (the tank shoulder with white and black sectors) and most of the new...

it is possible to put a pressure withstanding DIN plug to the 2nd din outlet so that you can manage with a single 1st stage. It is common here for the old simple 2 output single din valves to have this plug installed. these valves are relatively rare though and in very cold water they are not...

my OW course dives were something close to 25 - 30 minutes a piece. they are normally done in quarries here (most other places don't have enough visibility year around so quarries are much safer than trying to do OW course in the sea with 1 or 2m of visibility...) and it is pretty cold therein...

Yep it is true that most persons need more user friendly options and are ready to pay for them. I see them just as automatic single button colour balance tools which can be handy when making basic videos but are generally not usable when making anything more serious. Though most people who claim...

our OW instructor said that it is probably safer to throw up to your regulator than taking it out before throwing up, she said that people have a reflex of gasping air right after throwing up so there is greater risk of inhaling water if the reg is not in your mouth. never tried though so don't...

I don't understand what this program would do which I could not archive in professional colour grading software in couple of minutes or less. I am used to grade moving images though so maybe it is the easier user interface / no need to learn anything that is the point of the product (yes I have...

Yep the PARTIAL PRESSURE is the correct term to use here. "affinity" just confuses you and leads to misunderstandings