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+1 for Shearwater petrel

I have a mate who dives a neotek, reckons it is the best suit he ever had. Unfortunately their sizes don't fit everyone, and they do not do custom, but worth a crack.

Benefit of jacket: It is simple. Slip it over a tank, tighten straps. Add regs. Go diving. I now dive CCR and have dived everything in between, but for a quick OC dive single tank my old Pro QD is what I grab.

But you just did :) :) couldn't resist.

Not all regulators are "upside down" if they come from the other side. For what it is worth I used to dive with a pony upside down attached to the tank, hose coming up under the left arm, reg on a bridle around the neck. - Upside down pony means you can easily reach down to pressurize it then...

I would just like to say "I hope you remember how **** being over weighted is if you ever become an instructor and think over weighting your students is a good idea" :) :)

From a Aussie, though not a QLD native. It does sound like you were on a tourist cattle boat. Most experienced local divers would not be on one of the cattle boats. I am sure there are other smaller (20-50pax) boats you could go on which would have DMs with more experience and other gear...

All the dive shops are regulated by the park authority as to which sites they can goto on any given day, so you can be reasonably sure whoever you dive with you will not have too many boats at any one site. We dives from land with "scuba iguana" and found them to be a good safe professional...

So you are asking for a filter so that any thread with the word god or religion in it does not show in your feed. How would such a filter respond to a statement like "god damn that reg breaths well" or "the argument about the merits of jacket bcd vs bp/w is reaching religious proportions"...

She trimmed the reg hole and the mask hole. Just enough to get the lens through on the mask hole, so it went over the skirt of the mask. Mask still sealing against the skin. I think waterproof intentionally make the holes too small so you have plenty of room to trim to best fit

KWS: I assume you mean ensure not insure? If I was diving with you, I would be happy to test your tanks to ensure they are the right mix, but I would not insure you :)

Well said.

I often think the safety brigade can take things too far to the extreme in a lot if threads I read here, but on this one I am on their side. You MUST be confident that the mix in your tank is what you think it is. If you are not, the safe option would always be not to dive it. In reality you...

Three that come to mind.... - Peace and quiet in the water - Constant PPO2 set point increasing NDL time - Closer interactions with marine life

On the bright (excuse the pun) side I have a $20 plastic Chinese light that seems to handle 50m quite happily! So as others have said buy a few and see what works, or buy setting from your LDS and pay a bit more but have someone you can take it back to.

Your mileage may vary with this option. I bought what I thought was a great 2000 lumen torch out of china ($99). Looked awesome, solid aluminum construction, plenty of O-Rings etc. Worked well for the first 5 dives in up to about 20m of water. Took it to 45m, no it did not implode, but rather...

Another +1 for this

Probably am. not sure what wore out, and it was probably replaceable. But instead I bought myself a new Micron, never liked it. I am sure others might, I never fell in love with it. Just sayin.

Not sure what you consider to be relatively short. Pretty sure the first one I had would be 10 years or older. I am sure it was repairable, but sometimes it's nice to have new toys.

I am not a big fan of the new Mikron, I had one of the first ones and loved it, when it wore out I bought another one (1st and second stage) and could never quite get comfortable with it, always felt the same that it was never quite delivering the right amount of gas. I would consider taking it...