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Hey there, your closest good ocean diving is going to be down in West Palm/Jupiter. Or, you can head inland and come join us in the springs! Florida Springs Scuba and Scuba Monkey Dive Shop both have monthly meetings and monthly club dives, and can be a good way to find dive buddies. Also check...

There's a FB women's page "Girls that Scuba" and associated page "Girls that Scuba Together" for finding dive buddies. I've found the best way is to connect with people on dive trips and liveaboards, exchange contact info, and then reach out to them to set up future trips together in the...

Thanks all, we really appreciate it - we will definitely be analyzing responses from cave divers separately, since those questions may mean something very different for folks certified for it. Amazing. "And finally, one participant reported that their highest certification level was PADI...

As others have said, the only difference is the seat saver and it’s not a big deal. I have Atomic Z2s on my recreational reg set, and Atomic M1s on my doubles. Love them, they’re great regs.

Thanks for the input, and for taking the study! That's probably a distinction we should (and will) look at in a follow-up study; we know the general description is quite vague. We suspect that those differences will matter a lot to more experienced divers (who know enough to understand those...

Many thanks to those who have participated so far - we have a large sample of non-divers and newly certified divers (from other data collections), so getting a broader range of participants is incredibly helpful. We deeply appreciate it. Answers below to some questions include research...

Hi all, longtime SB-member here. I'm part of a research team at the University of Florida studying psychology/human factors in scuba diving. We are currently running an online study on perceptions of cave and tech diving. The study is quick (5-10 minutes; if it takes you longer, let me know!)...

Very interesting, thanks for the history tidbit! I took ANDP somewhat recently, and my instructor told me to ignore all the deep stop/VPM/V-Planner stuff in the eLearning. I’m familiar with the more current thinking, and was genuinely surprised to see it in there.

I mean, I live in Florida and have regular cave buddies, and we have a few deep caves around here. I have a circle of recreational dive buddies, and a circle of cave buddies - i love both, but there’s not much overlap. I imagine you want to do the same - make friends with other like-minded...

We were there Tuesday! Almost a ghost town, lovely to have it back in the rotation - and water was looking extra pretty too.

As a youngish woman….no, I am absolutely not cool being alone at night in a room with a stranger man. A group bunk room is totally different, don’t mind if those are mixed gender.

I live in Florida. The answer, if choosing between those two, is Horizon all day long. Absolutely no question. I do my best to steer folks away from RR, too many friends who have come back with terrible training stories - open water classes, AOW, even IDC. I’ve had some pretty terrible trips out...

If you’re looking to do it in the near future, be aware that Troy has been browned out/flooded almost all year due to flooding on the Suwannee. It was (briefly) clear in late June/July, then we got a series of hurricanes (Debby, Helene, Milton) that have been dumping rain in the watershed and...

I think many people feel comfortable fairly early, but that’s not the same as being effortlessly dialed in with spot-on trim and buoyancy. I’ve noticed that happens for myself and for others around 100 dives in whatever particular configuration, where you can no longer look at a diver and see...

About four inches of rain, very little wind here in Gainesville. Blue Grotto and Devil’s Den are open today already, and Fanning too, which I hope means other spots should be reopening soon - we were able to get into Manatee when it was open (briefly) Sunday but things have been bleak for the...

Saturday: Manatee is open! :D Sunday: Wooooo, dive dive dive! Monday: Manatee is closed again. :( Buddy is off next week, and we had hoped to spend the week diving...back to twiddling our thumbs and removing hurricane debris, round 2.

I think this is implicit in most people's answers, but breath control is part of good buoyancy skills when diving open circuit. It's not a bad thing that you go up when you inhale, and go down when you exhale - many of us use this to actively control our buoyancy during the dive without relying...

I emailed Shearwater directly (with photos) at info@shearwater.com when my Swift transmitter died, and they sent me a new one....

I’m also curious about this. My recreational set-up is the same at home and when I travel…

I’m fairly sure I have a digital copy of the rumored map - it’s much more detailed than any published map I’ve seen, but it’s also not mine to share… I’d suggest talking to folks around the millpond.