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Be careful of the older plastic housed 2nd stage SE2 the can be cracked where the mount to the hose and can/will pull off the hose. That said the parts can be put in another housing for not to much money.

Back in the day I did a weekly shark feed dive where I was the one swimming thru the water with the bucket of cut up fish. We were supposed to feed off a pole spear but after about 6 months of doing this I started noticing the same sharks over and over. there was this one missing part of his top...

As a past caribbean DM upkeep of rental gear came after rinsing the boat, then happy hour for the free food then caring for my gear... The stateside shop I worked for rented alot of gear and If someone reserved gear and it was 6 months out from service we did it anyway. If something failed...

"modern single hose regulators are exceedingly failure prone." Really? I didn't know that and to think in all my years of teaching and even DM in places where keeping up rental equipment came after rinsing the boat then happy hour, I think that I wouldn't even have to take off my shoes to...

Bluegill will and do bite and draw blood. One dive I had them pulling on both ears and my lower lip at the same time while having students doing mask clearing skills at Table Rock Lake in Missouri. The one on my lip took out such a big chunk and I was bleeding so bad that the students were...

I have been bitten quite a few times during a fish feed dive that we did and not by the big green's that were the attraction but by coney's and graysby's. Never heard of a Parrotfish attacking. We would use those triggers to help us find a shot fish(they would scool around where the wounded...

Jacque Cousteau, Sea Hunt and my Uncle Gene taking me snorkeling in the SoCal tide pools and telling me to stay there while him and his buddys would go J-valve diving. I took my cert dives the spring of 81 and I figured becoming a DM/Inst would get me out of Missouri so right before high...

Interesting, I have seen several comments about students mot even being able to decend properly. Shouldnt decending and acending be covered in the pool training? Are you not doing both everytime you go underwater so should it not be used as a training tool? Starting on confined water#1.

Just wondering if a pool swim test tells me anything about how a "diver" would handle swimming back to a boat or staying on the surface long enough for the boat to come back to them if they fell overboard. I personaly think that all student/experienced divers should be able to swim and freedive.

Not a real big deal. Take off your SPG from the end of the hose, not from the 1st stage. Put your reg system on a tank and give it a little pressure. Purge your seconds a couple times. Hit your inflator a few times. That will force any water out that you might have gotten into the 1st. The...

My problem with this bcd is the non standard placement of the inflator/oral inflator/dump. After working as a DM to "fish watchers" I have in more than one instance in dealing with "experienced" divers had to dump air as they started to rise uncontoled and freaked out. Also more than once had...

I thought the same thing. Also where is the oral inflate hose? Hidden away that is where, Isn't that something that when you need it you shouldn't have to look for it?

Cost is #1 reason people dont dive at all with time being #2 If my memory serves me right. Time then no one to dive with then no were to dive local for reasons why people stop diving. The numbers at the shop I ran were for about 10 OW 5-6 took AOW then 2-3 took rescue and about 1 in 30 went...

I was a full time Inst./shop employee/store mgr. for alittle over 20 years in several locations. I'd have to say I filled taxed on about 15,000-21,000 a year.

Hey Mr. DM I need 28lbs to get down, (From a girl 5'8''ish about 140) Me, What makes you think that? Her, Well that is how much it took for me on my check out dives. Turned out she was wearing a 5 mil jacket/jane for those. Gave her 8lbs she said it won't be enough cuz my Inst told me in salt...

There have been cases of the freediving pacific pearl divers gettin DCS. Its rare but happens. There are bubbles in the blood even as I sit at this desk typing. Everytime you decend those bubbles get compressed and can more to a place where just like in diving they can get stuck.

How dare you try to make money at diving. Kidding Good luck with this and hope you find a nice capt'n to work with. My last one was a crackhead.

Anyone remember the "Scuda"??? Cocktails at depth!!!!

Wasnt LA County started because of the diving related incedences? And I am sure as more divers started diving the numbers of injured dives went up too, so I guess it is because of PADI more divers are getting hurt. By the way this thread was started with scarcasm in mind.

My first Inst. told us about the "C" rule too. Said if it was good enough for flying it should work for diving then he would get a beer. He also told us to drink as much water as beer/cocktails, never saw him with any though. Dehydration and drinking and undeserved hits. I would watch so...