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Stephen, can't you find ice in AZ? I was at Lake Pleasant yesterday. Nice to wear shorts & a T-shirt in January! You know where that is? Walking back & forth to the docks, I kept thinking...hmmmm.. looks like +/- 10-15 ft vis. Darn, should have brought my gear!:) There was a dive...

Don't thnk it works that way. It would affect theoretical depths, and NDL's and all kinds of stuff. I'll have to dig that book back out and review it again. Yeah, I know, Trying to remember where I saw it. May have been on the above reference book. Seems like there was something about...

It's thin enough maybe they thought they could just punch a hole in it anywhere they need on. Or, better yet, maybe it's a drift dive and you just didn't see their exit hole downstream!. I'm doing some ice diving in a couple of weeks as a specialty course. I'm sending this to my instructor...

Barring a miracle, my father in law will be gone in less than 6 months of esophageal cancer, attributed almost wholly to smoking that he quit 20 years ago. Quit! Yesterday may already have been too late! Other than that, though, you're a hoot! What do you do? Have a voice transcriber. My...

I'm not an instuctor, but man, did that ever hit the nail square on the head. And that goes for whole gamut, not just buoyancy & trim.

The original post on this tread related to being trained for diving at altitude in a basic O/W class. We got certified by PADI in Denver. We did log our theoretical depth at altitude, and adjusted the table groups accordingly. We had a good experience as far as it went. I was certified in a...

Let's see.... Levin & Case are out of AOL/Time Warner, Lot's of other examples of CEOs/COOs caught with their finger in the cookie jar. Greed~ The Great American Motivator. Seems like even the most well intentioned individuals are subject to it's claws. Non-profit or for-profit, it's still...

Thanks, but I don't think so. The knife actually attaches horizontally under a small front flap that covers waistbelt. My Cobra mount to a retrator right next to it. So don't think that will work. Already other stuff routed there. Just went back and looked at Tinman's link. Didn't see it...

I've been on some cattle boats where everybody dives as a "group", and even after running cleanup and lagging behind everybody, be the last one back on the boat with 1000-1200, and everybody else is, as UP put it, trying to create a vaccuum in their tank, and still lots of NDL left because it...

but didn't think about the case of jumping in with the air turned off. Leaky rented tank o-ring ( I'm sure no one has ever had that!), turned off after setting up, long lazy boat ride soaking up the sun. I'm hot, ready to get in the water. Quick hit on the power inflator, half a draw on the...

Well, in about 7-10 years, it's our intention to be someplace where I can get inthe water 5 or six days a wek. (everybody has to have a day off!) oh...six knots on my little toy is moving right along. If you've not been on one in heavy air, it'll make the ole sphincter tighten right up!

Sorry Seajay...at least we're not bickering! I sail a Santana 20, pretty good bunch of J24s, anS2 7.9's, lot of Catalina 25's & 27's. The northern lake is Heron Res near Chama. The 22-30 foot range is most prevalant. We have about 150 slips in the Marina and that many on a waiting list...

of an oxymoron than diving here? Actually the first local one is this weekend, but I'm going to one in Phoenix. They're pretty much every other weekend at one lake till Memorial day, then to a Mountain lake for the summer, and back to the desert for the fall~ all the way to the 2nd week of...

Here's hoping you find another source for getting squeezed.....=-)

I really want to try to get to the DIR-F class that I've heard is trying to be set up here in March. I just hope it doesn't conflict woth one my Sailing Regattas. It's hell having two hobbies like this that I love and having to choose one over the other! It's not too difficult to tell who's...

At first read, I thought you meant a clip simialr to one for the reg when not in use, but I have to admit I stumbeld over your comment about it self resetting and coming loose easily a bit. A little more explanation/clarification would be appreciated. I'm looking to get a long hose to use...

that it's seems very difficult to separate the wheat from the chaf on the matter. That's why I found Seajay's report so enlightening. It was a very staightforward & clear statement of his experience backed with what he actually experienced and observed. That is much more helpful to someone...

When I got certified for drysuit, the topic was mentioned that it may be a thought for condieration, but I would concur with UP, just give it some air. Let those boys be free!:)

to DIR conepts & philosophies. Yeah, I'm going to check out the BP/wings thing when I can. And the concept of the long hose only makes sense.

Is there ever going to be a DIR forum? Even us (offcially) non-DIR types would like a place we can go to have an intelligent discussion on these things without it always turning into the oversimliified "I don't think it's right because I don't dive that way!" I would hope that I would never...