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HI dcostanza, I live in Hoboken which is just South of the Lincoln Tunnel enterance and about 10-55 minutes from Newark (depending on trafic... :wacko: ). There is a diveshop in Hoboken you can contact for local dive info. Hoboken Dive Center: http://www.gohdc.com I've been in there a...

If you don't have any, dive insurance might be a good idea especialy if you dive any distance from home on vacations etc... It can be gotten quite cheaply through DAN or a few other places like the insurance agency SDI/TDI uses. ---- Along with the spare car door key on the chain arond...

I know an instructor who told me you should depreciate new gear over several years if you want to claim it on taxes as well. I'd check that with a tax pro also. Me, I'm a DM but I don't get anything except the occational free boat ride, free fills and sometimes breaks on gear prices that I...

You can often mix-n-match stage brands on a regulator but unless you really know what you are doing or the shop tech does, you should generaly stay with one manufacturer for components of a given reg. Depending on how its setup, they may have 'balance' issues. EG: the octo from one maker...

Okaaaayyyyyy....

Back when I first started diving, I'm prety sure I had some sub-clinical DCS 'hits'. Slight headaches sometimes and being more tired than I should have been after a dive. Then I read that it can be from coming up too fast from the safety stop. It hasn't happened since I started surfacing VERY...

So you're realy Imelda Marcos writing under a net pseudonym? We've got you now!

At'sa OK by me den! I have (gulp) PLASTIC FINS... Well space-age plastic, but none the less... I nub my spacefrogs. ;) Well, I did install springs on them so they are almost respectable.

By the way, I was diving in Key West the weekend before last and there was a local guy who had almost all of his gear pink... Well, at least as much pink as he could find on the market anyway. Even had a pink pinky nail... Hmmm... I'm sure he'd appreciate knowing where you got your...

AHHhhhh!!!! You mean you're NOT IN FANTASTIC PHYSICAL FITNESS either? AHHhhhh!!!! "The horrors, the horrors..."

The traditional "throwing of the game bag".... ;)

Hi Diverbrain, How long ago was it that you were a sonarman? What the aticle above is talking about is a new type of much more powerfull sonar than has been available to the Navy in the past. Unless you were involved in the trials/testing of this new sonar, you would not have had direct...

Hey Dennis, I've never tried to dump or add air with the snorkle. I've grabbed it, realized I had the wrong thing in my hand, switched to the inflator and then added/dumped air. I just don't want to ever loose valuable time fumbling with the snorkle if I have an emergency under water...

I know a guy who's done it twice... :rolleyes: He says he fell asleep in the tropics once on the shallow, easy, last dive at the end of a heavy week of diving. I was the one who woke him up the second time. The odd part was that the dive I woke him on was in drysuits in about 40 F...

My LDS banks O2 compatable air, 40% (they have a DNAX compressor) and several O2 bottles for blending mixes over 40% I, another DM and an instructor sat down one weekend and banged out a simple spreadsheet for calculating nitrox gass mixes. We even donated to the shop an old 486 PC running...

My LDS banks O2 compatable air, 40% (they have a DNAX compressor) and several O2 bottles for blending mixes over 40% I, another DM and an instructor sat down one weekend and banged out a simple spreadsheet for calculating nitrox gass mixes. We even donated to the shop an old 486 PC running...

What about tumbling to remove rust and stuff on a poorly maintained, used steel tank before the actual cleaning stages get started? I'm not sure what extra steps one might invent for a used AL tank though... ;)

What about tumbling to remove rust and stuff on a poorly maintained, used steel tank before the actual cleaning stages get started? I'm not sure what extra steps one might invent for a used AL tank though... ;)

Oops, I should have made clear. He doesn't bring it when he's training his own students... He brings it when doing deeper recreational dives (70-130 fsw) and he doesn't know all the other divers going. If anyone asks, he just tells them its how he normaly carries a pony.

Gas Absorption Program It's a downlodable dive planner similar to vplanner, etc.