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What brand(s) does the shop you’ll be doing your DMC (or working as a DM when done) with sell? Some shops only want their pros in equipment they sell. Others don’t care.

Just sign up for an American Red Cross adult first aid/AED/CPR class. Blended is usually the easiest, but you can do class-only if you prefer. With the blended option you do the online portion and then show up for the in-class part, where you'll demonstrate the skills (AED use, chest...

You can also try a boot tray. That's what I use.

Rolling this product out doesn't make a whole lot of sense. In addition to all of the issues people have already raised, there is the additional problem that people are not likely to purchase a brand-new, expensive, electronic piece of gear at a time when AL seems to be circling the drain...

Says who? These are two baseless assumptions you are making. The vast majority of dive shops/ops certainly do monitor the quality of their instructors. Just because there is a financial incentive to sell courses doesn't mean that there isn't also an incentive to keep those courses high...

March is at the tail end of the rainy season, so you may experience some intermittent showers. In my experience, showers are almost always very brief and usually occur in the very early morning hours. Topside temps are usually quite pleasant. Water temps are usually around 79-80. Bonaire is a...

I generally don’t rinse my gear in the communal rinse tanks unless I happen to get there when they are being filled with fresh water. Otherwise you are just rinsing your gear in increasingly salty, dirty water. For wetsuits, you end up rinsing it in other people’s diluted urine. What I usually...

Okay, I'll bite. The problem is that the conversation is rarely along the lines of "Hey, there are some benefits of using a long-hose primary and an octo on a bungee. Here are what those benefits are. Think about it and see if it might fit your diving style, and maybe you'll want to give it a...

I came to diving and to Scubaboard well after the DIR wars, which I didn't even know existed until this thread. But it became instantly apparent to me that, on the whole, the DIR crowd had/has a strong tendency towards dogmatism. That is what most recreational divers find so off-putting. The...

My DUI silicone neck seal is the same way. It’s a problem with cone-shaped seals, as opposed to bottle-shapes ones, compounded when the wearer doesn’t have a thick neck. Don’t cut off more rings than necessary for a good fit or you’ll risk leaking. Instead, you’ll just have to deal with pulling...

This pretty much sums it up. Crushed neoprene is very durable easy to repair. Most come standard with a neoprene neck and wrist seals, although some can be upgraded to latex or silicone. Some people love neoprene seals, but in my experience latex and silicone are better. Back-zip suits are...

In addition to a lightweight BPW with an aluminum plate, you could also look at the Aqualung Rogue. It weighs about 2 kgs and it can be easily disassembled so that it packs completely flat. You can opt to not use integrated weight pockets and instead wear a weight belt, saving you a little...

As @Belzelbub wrote, consider what you want out of your dive computer. Any cheap dive computer will work just fine and do what you need it to do for recreational diving. But it's worth spending some time thinking about the sharpness of the screen, whether you want a color display, air...

The Hydro Lite goes for $640 and the HOG for about $540. The only BPW that's going to cost the OP less is a DGX, depending on how it's optioned out.

Belize. Spend half your time at a place like Black Rock Lodge in the mountains near San Ignacio in the western part of the country and do some caving, hiking, exploring Mayan ruins. Then head to the coast for diving. Ambergris or Caye Caulker, or maybe Placencia.

The hypothesis put forth by the Undercurrent article doesn't seem to jibe with the Facebook post made by the rescuer. In that post she stated that the nitrox used by some of the divers that day tested at 35%. I suppose it's possible the O2 sensor was bad, but if so it was like that straight...

My first thought was that Mr. Hughes may have breathed contaminated air but managed to surface, slip into unconsciousness, and sink to the bottom. The bleeding from his mouth may have been caused by a post-mortem AGE that was the result of bringing him to the surface. If he wasn't breathing...

So for a coronary event you would donate your reg? For a stroke? How about IPE? Hypoglycemia? AFib? Explain how sharing air would help in those cases.

At the risk of being pedantic, technically you need a 5-ring Zulu strap to be able to thread it that way. A regular NATO or a 3-ring Zulu won't do the trick. In fact, I have taken to just cutting off the second strap of my NATOs and 3-ring Zulus because all it does is make the watch (or dive...