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Mandarinfish Holding is not a Chinese group.

Ok, I think I misunderstood what was being asked.

Your remaining NDL will always show. But even if you could turn it off you wouldn’t want to. It’s critical information that you ALWAYS need to keep an eye on.

Reminds me of that episode from The Office: :p

I have my Teric set up to display my GTR: gas time remaining. It’s based on my gas consumption rate at the moment and whatever I set my reserve to.

Thanks for the link. Interesting, seeing as how the myth gets perpetuated. Perhaps it’s the inflammation it causes. Or that it tends to interfere with sleep patterns and thus can contribute to fatigue. Or it’s because staying up late and drinking on a dive vacation means less overnight rest. Or...

Why does PADI always garner this hate for the way it markets AOW (and Master Scuba Diver), but SSI, for example, does not? Here's what PADI says about its AOW course: "The Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about advancing your skills. You'll practice navigation and buoyancy, try deep...

Man, you had just had to bring up Warhammer...

So they let you have a beer between dives on a 2-tank dive? I’ve never heard of that.

I don’t drink very much anyway, and drink even less while on dive trips (usually too tired from multiple dives, being out in the sun, etc.). But I never drink the day/evening I arrive if I’m going to dive the next morning. After a long day of flying I’m usually pretty dehydrated and tired. So I...

I know people who tie one on every night of a dive trip and dive the next day with no problems. I also know a person who did the same and ended up getting bent, likely due to being pretty dehydrated from drinking so much alcohol. What’s your exact risk? No one can tell you that. Too many...

I can’t speak to wearing separates, as the only experience I have with it is watching students wear old double 7mm farmer John and jacket combos. But as for the issues of donning and doffing, front zip wetsuits are notoriously difficult to get off. Back zip is much easier. So if that’s your main...

I was about to type the same thing when I read your response. Five to seven presses of the inflator in a pool means overweighted for sure.

Fair points. And my apologies if I came in a little too hot. It's just that everything about this case gets me absolutely fired up.

A lot of us were taught on our knees, and a lot of us turned out to be good divers. But I would argue it's because a lot of us here take our diving seriously and worked hard to become better divers as we advanced and got more experience. But why have student divers start there and have to work...

@Angelo Farina you bring up some interesting points. I wasn't around (as a diver, at least) in the halcyon days of yore, so I can't comment on the training back then. I have heard stories of it, though, and a few things come to mind. First, the hardcore training of old definitely seemed to...

Well, by that argument Open Water certification doesn't really teach you anything thoroughly either. And it's a prerequisite for other classes. And an Open Water cert is good enough for plenty of dive boats. But it depends on what dive sites they plan on hitting. For deeper sites it makes...

NDL is a function of time and depth, not just one or the other. It is entirely possible to go into deco on a relatively shallow dive, and it is entirely possible not to go into deco on a deeper dive. Although on a very shallow dive your dive time is more likely limited by gas supply and...

I understand all of this. I was specifically asking for an explanation from another poster as to how the typical "it's all about the money" argument (which gets thrown around these boards a lot - especially when it comes to anything PADI related) has anything to do with a dive operator...

I just looked them up, because I love my original Go Sports for warm water diving but would prefer a slightly stiffer version. But damn, $215! For that I'll just fin along a little slower...