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I shoot an Olympus E-PL1 with 2 Ys-01 strobes, and a Light & Motion Sola 600 focus light, I had the 2 strobes first, and the biggest advantage while shooting stills with the focus light is faster focus at chosen aperture and shutter speed. When shooting video... Use the Sola and the focus lights...

Still taught in o/w both at depth in the pool, and at the surface both in the pool & o/w. I teach to set the collar of the BCD just below the yoke, get horizontal, left hand push tank up, right hand grab the valve and twist.

I own the Knighthawk, travel with it, used to dive it for all my diving, carried enough weight and had enough lift to dive my dry suit, adjusted enough to use with a 3 mil. I love the Scubapro buckle, weight pockets and with the optional crotch strap it is almost as stable as my bp/w. the pocket...

So many have said before me, do dives with hard bottoms above 60 ft. "Trust me" dives are never a good idea, and neither are wall dives when still learning instinctive buoyancy control. There are plenty of great dives above 60' with 100' visibility in Grand Cayman. Worrying about your ability to...

Beat me to it!

With PADI, a pool session prior to open water is required.

Such a similar story as most, grew up watching Sea Hunt, and Cousteau. Snorkeling at the lake during the summer. Life got in the way until on vacation in 2002 in Cancun, walking by the dive shop kiosk at the resort every morning, telling my wife that I always wanted to try scuba, till she got...

I wear ScubaPro Twin Jets and frog kick almost exclusively, so why say that? Only back finning is problematic with these fins. I hate when people say things like this, or the only right way to dive is in a bp/w, or if you wear a jacket style bcd, you can't be a good diver. Over the years, I have...

When I teach wreck, I first teach the frog kick , sac calculations, and discuss and show redundancy in equipment that I consider required for wreck penetration, and I always do option A and take students inside.

Back to the OP,as opposed to beating up doctors. I have a few questions, were lost buddy procedures covered in the dive briefing, and if not not did the OP discuss them with his insta buddy? Why redescend, if the OP were really that concerned, why delay getting search teams in the water? Now...

I carry 2 cutting tools, neither are a knife, I carry EMT shears, and a line cutters. Different sides of body so I can always reach 1. Used the shears once in Pennsacola to cut myself out of...you guessed it, fishing line.

I am going to reiterate what others have said here, and dispel some of the generalities, not all dive shops have heavily chlorinated BCDs, the shop I teach at has pool BCDs, and rental BCDs, so when we sell off rental gear , it was only used in open water. As a newer diver who probably did their...

I took my open water class in gear I purchased, since...5 regulators, 2 bp/w, 2 back inflate BCDs, 1 sidemount setup, etc etc etc

When I teach, I meet with any CAs I have helping that I believe people learn by doing, so don't jump in when you see a problem. Mention that maybe something isn't right, and should recheck what they have done. I think your boys learned a valuable lesson about diving and life. Good job!!

If you get "Wreck Diver" there was an article by Valerie Van Heest in one issue that dealt with a commercial diver hired to do the first dives on the "Carl Bradley" and he used hydrogen in the late fifties to do those dives.

Gee Bob you sound like some of my dive buddies, we were doing a dive and eventually there're we're 6 stacked with me as the propulsion for he group till I helicoptered and caught them. I personally would use a modified frog kick myself, but a modified flutter would work also.

I won't disagree about bp/w being comfortable and versatile, my singles set up is a Dive Rite Transplate, which gives the quick release of a bcd, along with the rigidity and comfort of a plate. Works for me, check into it, I believe Hollis has their own version of it also. Weight integrated is...

GUE is soooooo flexible about personal gear selection aren't they this new happy diver is just another "stroke." I dive with 2 little retractors on my tech rig, guess I'm a stroke too, but to the OP, congratulations, glad to see you are enthusiastic about you diving. Take what classes YOU want...

An example: at Haigh Quarry in June of 2010, at DUI days, a man lied on the medical about surgery(he had open heart surgery 4 months earlier) because he wanted to figure which dry suit he wanted, and Demo days are a great way to dive different suits. On his first dive, he had a heart attack at...

Cheaper? Don't bet on it, just like shooting, always something better coming along. I trap shoot, when I started, the Ithaca I hunted with was fine. Then as I improved, I bought a Remington pump with changeable choke tubes, then a Browning over and under dedicated to trap. Diving is no...