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  1. aldertyler

    Tank handle or no tank handle

    My initial thought when looking at tank handles is that they look like an entanglement hazard. Are they actually a serious enough entanglement hazard to worry about? I don't know. I do know that carrying my tanks by the valve eventually becomes uncomfortable. Is it uncomfortable enough for me...
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    How many hobbies do you have, other than diving?

    I used to have hobbies, then I had kids...
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    Long Hose As Backup?

    Wrong? No. Suboptimal? Yes.
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    Long Hose As Backup?

    Why are people always trying to reinvent the wheel? There's a tried and true system that works really well.
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    "Observations show an average 260 touches per one hour dive for a party of four."

    Let's go after the guilty parties then, while also holding divers to a higher standard.
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    XDeep Boltsnaps

    That very well could be. I just found it interesting, given the geographic distribution of scubaboard members, that the first three responses were all from my neck of the woods.
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    Diving shorts w/pockets or strap on thigh pocket?

    Another vote for glue on pockets.
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    XDeep Boltsnaps

    Thanks guys. Interesting that everyone in this thread is from the PNW.
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    XDeep Boltsnaps

    Does anyone have any experience with these? I don't have a need for any new boltsnaps (I currently have a drawer full and then some), but these look "interesting". https://www.xdeep.eu/nx-series-bolt-snaps-scuba-pr-140.html
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    At least once in every state in the Union!

    Here's a link to the one in WA. Titan I, Missile Silo, Silo Diving, Dive into History
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    A word to the wise when dealing with any enforcement authority...

    I have had this happen. It worked out fine in the end, but there were a couple of slightly tense moments until another ticketing agent with more experience intervened.
  12. aldertyler

    First Dive Knife

    Before I started diving I thought that when I eventually did start diving I would buy a strider BD Dive Tool. BD Dive Tool I was a big fan of the Strider folding knife that I owned and thought their dive knife must be awesome as well. Cut to years layer and some diving experience under my belt...
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    Any diver out there been attacked by a big shark?!

    I haven't been attacked by a shark, but various species of fish, when guarding eggs, have attacked my mask.
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    Fin colors?

    If there were white Eddy's in larger sizes I would buy them in a heartbeat.
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    Graduated from PADI Diapers to TDI Pullups

    Are you sure you haven't been here before? You sound like you'll fit right in.
  16. aldertyler

    First Dive Knife

    Agreed. I should have qualified my statement with "this is what I do. It may or may not work for you and the type of diving you do."
  17. aldertyler

    First Dive Knife

    Trilobyte mounted to computer strap. Dollar store steak knife cutdown to ~1.5" just left of center on waist.
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    Dive tables for accelerated decompression

    happy-diver and intelligible don't mix well. I think there's something in the water down in Oz.
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