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Based on cursory research, default judgment is common in English-style legal systems (which is why both the U.S. and the Bahamas recognize it), but does not appear to be common in other European legal traditions. In this particular case, the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure require parties to a...

I want this on a shirt.

I also prefer to remove my reg, puke, and replace. While I'm aware of the safety-based logic presented, I (a) find it more comfortable to retch unimpeded, and (b) I have sufficient control to not inhale until I have returned my reg to my mouth. My personal preference notwithstanding, I would...

Another +1 for Birds! I went out with them on a pre-sunrise trip in late July and I had a spectacular time. Even though I was the only person signed up, they ran a trip just for me with a fantastic captain who was a wealth of manatee knowledge.

I'm with @davehicks's wife and @Dark Wolf. If you have a lot of hair (when I started diving, mine was long enough to snap my neck if I sat on my ponytail), a zippered hood left unzipped/gusset coverage only is the way to go.

My empirical observation is that there has to be a consistent level of moisture. If you are wet and the gloves are wet, okay. If you are a dry and the gloves are dry, fine. If one is wet and one is dry? You're going to have a bad time.

I often find that gloves are easy to manipulate when both your hands and the gloves are wet. Dry gloves and mildly sweaty hands is a recipe for needing to drop a lot of f-bombs. Rolling the wrist cuffs back by a few inches often makes it easier to wiggle into the glove, because there's less...

Solo (which is recreational under SDI) is useful for Midwestern divers so that quarries will let us go out and play by ourselves. It's hard for me to rope most people into a few hours of hover practice, kick drills, and shooting bags... and I get it. Not a rec diver's idea of fun. I'm not sure...

This is the same type of issue I had with my Solo class this week. There was nothing in that course that I couldn't already do blindfolded during an airshare scenario. Recreational classes are targeted to an audience with different needs.

Would you chalk it up to the content of the course being inadequate or the instruction not being done well?

The weighted STAs seem to work well for most people that I know who use them. It distributes the poundage along the length of the back at the centerline. This is reasonably close to where a lot of people put extra weight anyway (cambands, trim pouches, etc.).

I was taught to do this in my Fundamentals class last summer. We called it "stretching the suit." The process is to close the dump valve, inflate the suit generously, and then wiggle/wriggle with vigor. This helps to loosen up any areas where layers of fabric may be bunched up or binding on one...

They're based out of Eight Diving Co. in Des Moines.

I just moved out of Seattle (UW grad student, did not feel like paying Seattle rent for my second year). There's an excellent, enthusiastic, year-round community of divers in the area. I didn't get to do as much diving as I wanted in Seattle, but I did approximately three dives at Redondo and...

In reality as a person who did the class, this was my experience. We needed all of our waking hours for various commitments: instruction, homework, gear prep, land practice.

1. Factions. This is just a fact of technical diving society, sorry! People sort into groups based on their philosophies, preferences, and priorities. It's worth it to spend some time talking to people within different groups to see if one resonates with you. For example, some people totally...

Make a couple of calls to drysuit servicing specialists to see what they can offer in terms of turnaround and cost. Given that the neck seal looked like it had been repaired poorly before, I'm a little suspicious of the claim that it has to be the dump valve (but this doesn't exclude that both...

I think that for a basic wicking layer, you don't need a scuba-specific solution. Anything with the right properties and comfort at REI, Cabela's, Dick's, etc. should do the trick.

Quick interim update: The Day 4 post (for Friday) will probably go up on Monday, after I've made the drive home to Chicago. I sprained my left ankle on Friday night -- my body's reminder to me that 31 constitutes getting old and things hurt, apparently -- when I missed a step in the dark...

I wear bifocals on land, but due to the cost of my preferred lens specs, I had Prescription Dive Masks add single-vision lenses for my near-vision Rx. This splits the difference between important stuff (reading my computer, writing wet notes, working with line) that I need to see in detail and...