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This should be the funnest class you take just be well rested and pack a lunch, if you take it from me you'll need it!!! Get your text materials before hand and read and reread everything while taking note about ??'s you have and be thinking of different ways you might be handling any type of...

And the DVT doesn't do anything to keep the water out of your 1st if there is water in the tank valve when you conect it.

WOB Does have ALOT to do with saftey. Never hear of divers panicing due to not getting enough air(over breathing or a hard breather Reg)? I have seen it many times. One student during an air share drill in 40 feet told me to surface after she had switched back to her reg. When we got up she...

Water in the first stage will not ruin it. Who ever told you that was trying to get you to buy Oceanic. I even dive an Oceanic I was made to buy from a store I worked for. Salt Water in the first will cause the filter to turn green and clog over time. All piston Reg's get water in the...

I don't think it's so much swim skill as swim comfort, if that were the case I'd be a pretty bad diver as the only stroke I've really mastered is Dog Paddling.

Is it golfing if you go to the Driving Range/Putting Green/Mini Course? Did you go fishing if you didn't catch anything? I would rather see in someones log book 6 pool dives in 3 months that 10 O/W dives last year. Log it as experience. You don't need 80ft saltwater and pretty fish to become...

It's not just the cracking that will lead to a problem. I had a customer bring in a pony that he used once a year for for 10-14 dives salt water with a total of 35 dives on it and the tank had pits some the size in depth of half the tank thickness. Some how salt water had gotten in the tank...

You seem to be a pretty knowlageable diver Awap. When I am giving advice/opinions I try to be as broad as possiable to cover that lucky guy that lives in S.FL as well as the person I trained living in Missouri.

This is what I love about Scubaboard. The debates about the way I do it is the right way and yours is wrong and the training agencys are even wronger (I don't care if it's a word or not). 20+ plus years of diving insta-buddys (students) all with an Air2/short primary (yes my teaching set has...

I have been saving this one till a good time to use it... When I did a tour of an o-ring biz ( a place where they are made) part of it was talking about how long dynamic and static lifetimes were and they said a moving o-ring should be replaced at least once a year more often with heavy use...

One of things to look into when picking a reg system is repair ability in locations you are diving. As in an out of the way spot can you get it fixed (parts avalibity) if need or are you willing to use rental.

Thanks for the laugh Awap.

They are all indirect or direct copy's of the beloved mk5. When Oceanics copy hit the store I asked the repair rep doing the clinic " is this a mk5 copy?" his reply "why reinvent the wheel" same as their diaphram model at the time was a copy of a USD model he said the same thing but they used...

Some of the shop out there don't have the parts to service all the reg's they take in for service so they use the parts that they have. A little thing about an o-ring is most of them are the same, the difference is what they are made of. A #10 is a #10 or a 010 depending on what catalog you...

Well in my experience over the years and several 100's of repairs have shown me that sometimes you will see a loss of pressure on some of the hand tightend hose fittings. I never said it will happen everytime. That is why I said I leave the reg's I repair on air "overnight". "Connections of...

I could teach you everything you need to know to start learning to dive in just a couple hours and did many times. It's called a Resort Course "Did you have fun on this 30ft dive with me?,"Yes" Then sign up and take more classes." Back in the day when you got you gear at Sears or Western...

20 years ago the students that got their cards still needed further training and experience to become better divers. I know cuz I was one of them. 5 years ago I watched a very experienced Inst. from Ohio take a beating on a So. Florida beach entry that had 3 foot waves. She had never done this...

She is going to die 'specialy if shes not using a backplate wing bc. Not.

I think my point is that everyone makes mistakes. The way some people post here is that a tech that makes a mistake should be skined alive the covered in salt. Its not always sloppy work that causes mistakes it is some times a demanading customer that cant wait a #$$# min. for you to finishing...

A shop does not certify their techs. A repair tech is supposed to go to a class offered by the makers of the equipment they are going to be working on. Most of them even give you a neat diploma to hang on the shop wall. I got mine for Scubapro,Aqualung,Oceanic,TUSA,Prosub,Mares,Dacor,Poesidon...