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@Dominick Gheesling?

I only learned about Cindy's passing yesterday. I'm so sorry for all of her family, friends, loved ones, and dive buddies.

What variety of color-blindness do you have?

I'm going to be in Vienna for work in July, and it occurred to me that this puts me mere hours away from the Kőbánya Cellars. I now have my heart set on taking a long weekend trip there for my 31st birthday. I'm probably going to go with the Molnar Janos Dive Center, but I'm open to other...

I'm sure you saw this coming, @Manatee Diver... Safety reels and spools: A symbiotic relationship

I'm envious! I have about 10 months of grad school left before I don't need to be on campus anymore, and then the plan is to hie me to Gainesville and set up camp.

This was actually a hot topic of discussion after Reggie's memorial service when the divers went out to raise a beer in his memory. The discussion included a number of the living legends and most prominent instructors in the field. I was mostly in another conversation, but what I was catching...

I have a couple of thoughts on the process, which I think may be useful for the discussion. For context, @Manatee Diver and I are training siblings - I did the bulk of my training to date with Reggie, but began working with Chris in September on days that Reggie wasn't well enough to dive. 1...

Woohoo! I'm sure that Reggie would be proud.

I wear a women's size US 9/9.5 and I need XL fins to accommodate double socks and dry boots.

I'm a female diver with a hip-heavy, foot-light build. I dove the Fusion Fit and Mares Avanti Quattro fins for almost 18 months and..... it wasn't going well. The combination of a suit in which the feet are the most-inflatable part (because there's no skin) and mostly-neutral, slightly-positive...

Under the 200ish mark, I made a handful of dives that were probably less than advisable because I, baby diver, had major Fear of Missing Out. Each dive was individual and special and I wanted to cram in all of the diving experience that I possibly could. Sometime between dives 200-250, I had to...

I vote drysuit first before Fundies. The less-important reason is that a Fundamentals class requires a significant number of consecutive hours in the water and that's almost always going to be more comfortable in a drysuit with well-selected undergarments. More importantly, one of the...

Need more info: -Depth -Time -Dive computer models (for algorithm)

Meredith's classes would still be a bargain at twice the price. She's a tremendously accomplished diver and easily one of the world's best instructors for evaluating diver performance, finding solutions, and technique improvement. Three days in the water with her did amazing things for my level...

Pop-science article: Free-Diving Neanderthals Gathered Tools From the Seafloor Original research: Neandertals on the beach: Use of marine resources at Grotta dei Moscerini (Latium, Italy) (open access)

It's an older post, but it checks out: Missouri Cave Diving Anecdotally, friends of mine (also Chicago-area cavers) have indicated that the Missouri visibility and current conditions are often more challenging for newer divers than what one finds in northern Florida.

Breathe in: 1-2-3 Breathe out: 1-2-3-4 I generally keep the same number of counts, but the duration of each beat might change. In still open water at a leisurely pace, I might only have 6-7 breaths per minute. Swimming upstream into current, I'll breathe more frequently as needed to support...

I have one of the Deep Sea Supply Kydex backplates, which I use when I'm dressed for warm water conditions (I always dive steel doubles and a drysuit). My plate is slightly more than 1 lb. negatively buoyant, whereas my usual SS plate is about six pounds negative. The difference is definitely...