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i'm guessing the "40%" number is more likely to be "40% of people who start OW courses are women" - observation of largish clubs around the place makes it seem the total number of women continuing to dive is a much smaller proportion (maybe 10%). as to the whole spatial awareness & direction...

coming up to summer i don't think you'd have a problem finding stores needing extra hands

during my course, the wheels my course buddy & i used were slightly off - enough to give a slightly different answer either way. there was a degree of parallax error involved - such that, if you knew what the answer was "supposed" to be, you could adjust the way you looked at the wheel (where...

thanks for the response - and interesting that the situation seemed very similar to my experience: that few moments of "say whaaa?" which seems to me unsurprising in this sort of situation. maybe i'm getting too psychological and theoretical, but i can't help feeling that since OOA is so rare...

these days you'd be hard-pressed to find *anyone* without some kind of alternate air source & needing to buddy breath (multiple failures maybe, but yikes). there's several possible factors involved in why the communication wasn't perfectly clear: - i might not have been clear with the...

buddy checks were done on shore, although we turn the air off on the boat & back on at the site. unfortunately the boat isn't conducive to another check: it's a cramped RIB it was probably my eagerness to get in the water before heat & motion made me sick that meant the tank wasn't on properly...

yes, by definition it was sufficient, since we are both still alive. having any emergency is not ideal, obviously. my buddy was on 90bar; the swim-thru was part of the pre-dive plan, until i went inside, there was nothing out of the ordinary to change the plan.

the odd thing it this was 30 minutes into the dive - so it's not like the classic "oops - forgot to turn it on" situation. i checked breathing at the surface - i normally do going off a boat - before going under (5 breaths, watching the gauge, no problem). but yes - it'll be a while before i...

nono - i think she wants to be able to actually go diving herself :D :D :D

i dived for 4 years (fairly consistently) before considering the DM course. i still think of myself as being a rank amateur.

there's "master diver", which is all about doing lots of specialties. there's also no stricture on just taking one agency's route - the dive shop i deal with has both PADI and TDI courses, so it's pretty easy for their customers to "go technical" with essentially the same group of people. the...

waiting for some other divers to exit the overhead area i *might* have gone backwards abit. however in retrospect it seems more likely to me that when i initially turned my air on (on the boat) i did a half-***** job, and so when the tank pressure dropped beyond a certain point there wasn't the...

yah - this is what i was getting at. interesting, isn't it? and makes you wonder what you can really do about it - especially since you don't know how effective the practice is until Something Bad happens :/

the event got be thinking about long hoses, etc - it would have been a little more comfortable to have had a long hose as the receiver, to be sure. but then i thought about the ramifications of using the long hose as primary & the fact that i'd have *had* to pull my buddy's reg out of her mouth...

that sort of relates to my query - do you practice this in a very organised way or do you randomly decide that "now" is an OOA moment & we'll pretend it's real. i'm wondering about the psychological differences between real & training.

hi folks we all use a bunch of signals all the time whilst diving: "ok", "go down", "go up", "air low" etc; but i was wondering how often people have seen or expect to see "out of air" ? i ask because yesterday i had my own ooa experience: after 30 mins of diving we headed into a little...

i think it's designed to severely stress you; it's good if it does, frankly. maskless buddy breathing while you change the rest of your gear is a whole 'nother story, believe me. bailout (*holding* all gear in arms, air off, jump in, come up looking dm perfect) is a different kettle of fish...

that seems the best way to go to me & is what i do, mainly 'cos i don't want the pool to eat my own gear :P the only reason you might want to go with a jacket BC in the OW section is if you're demo'ing skills (eg BC remove/replace) - which would make no sense if you're in BP/W. seems like a...

it's not about losing/making money - i think the point is that after you do a course you get your C-card updated with *all* of your specialties - and/or highest qual - listed, eg: Advanced Open Water Enriched Air Diver Wreck Diver then you do a few more courses: Rescue Diver...

i was asked for mine by a liveaboard dive director last year; plus a couple of wreck-dive operators who wanted to put their stamp in my book *after* the dive ;) that's about it. what do i log? -> my own dives, usually record various fish and entry/exit notes. handy to remember what sort of...