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I thought that was a great question by @johndiver999 and I figured that might be your answer… know this: an ascent to the surface from 60 feet is almost exactly the same as an ascent to the surface from 30 feet. Yes, it will take you twice as long. However, as you are ascending, the gas in...

As a technical diver, this is absolutely one of the steps we do in GUE-style (cave-style?) head-to-toe equipment matching before we splash: “Computer, on and set to the right gas.” That check has absolutely caught both me and dive buddies on multiple occasions. To me, that check is absolutely...

Thank you for that extra level of detail. Unfortunately, that’s mainly a distinction without a difference: what percentage of transmitters fail for a reason other than flooding? I’m not even particularly upset at the change in policy. I’m upset that they bait-and-switched me. If the change...

Not anymore. Oceanic / Huish Outdoors is no longer servicing BM-serial-number transmitters. Details here: WARNING: Oceanic / Huish Outdoors no longer services most transmitters!

Not anymore. Oceanic / Huish Outdoors is no longer servicing BM-serial-number transmitters. Details here: WARNING: Oceanic / Huish Outdoors no longer services most transmitters!

Unfortunately, not anymore. Oceanic / Huish Outdoors is no longer servicing BM-serial-number transmitters. Details here: WARNING: Oceanic / Huish Outdoors no longer services most transmitters!

Unfortunately, not anymore. Oceanic / Huish Outdoors is no longer servicing BM-serial-number transmitters. Details here: WARNING: Oceanic / Huish Outdoors no longer services most transmitters!

Not anymore. Oceanic / Huish Outdoors is no longer servicing BM-serial-number transmitters. Details here: WARNING: Oceanic / Huish Outdoors no longer services most transmitters!

Unfortunately, Oceanic / Huish Outdoors is no longer servicing BM-serial-number transmitters. Details here: WARNING: Oceanic / Huish Outdoors no longer services most transmitters!

Not anymore. Oceanic / Huish Outdoors is no longer servicing BM-serial-number transmitters. Details here: WARNING: Oceanic / Huish Outdoors no longer services most transmitters!

Looks like Oceanic / Huish Outdoors now refuses to service the transmitters with BM serial numbers -- which is the vast number of transmitters out there. These are the typical MH8A transmitters that are used by lots of different computers out there. I bought an Oceanic computer and transmitter...

I can’t believe no one included a link to such an adapter: https://www.divegearexpress.com/dgx-adapter-1-4-inch-npt-male-bc-inflator-qd-post This plugs into a BC inflator hose and converts it to 1/4” NPT. From that, you can adapt to literally anything, including whatever flavor of shop QR you...

Meh. If I was a local, I really wouldn’t have a problem meeting up with some people to take them through the mine on my own schedule when I wanted. I mean, I do the same kind of things at my local river. I’ve never charged someone to dive with me… And I’ve done plenty of dives that I didn’t...

Understandable, and works for me. Those are some decent dives! 40-50 minutes runtime is plenty, and I’m going to guess that last one might have been shorter because of depth? The Nitrox will not go to waste — in fact, it makes me want my doubles. Interesting, and good to know. Given they...

Was Dive 1 an actual go-somewhere dive in *addition* to the checks? For $90, I hope so… I certainly get the desire to make sure people are at least minimally capable. I just don’t want to pay full price for it. :( I’m glad you mentioned this: I was not planning on bringing my lights at all...

No problem. Spoiler alert: the news is bad. :-) Notice that the tanks are stamped DOT – 6498. That number is the special permit (used to be called exemption) that those tanks were manufactured under. A quick google shows that they were made by Luxfer. Luxfer made tanks for most all of the...

OK, you got a tremendous LOL from me on that one. :-) That reminds me of the old joke about GUE divers. If you see a group of divers on a dive boat with GUE hats and T-shirts, they can’t actually be GUE divers, because”real” GUE divers only do skills dives in quarries, not actual dives… :-)...

Well… Seeing as PADI does not offer such a specialty, how would the average diver get one, and therefore how would the average dive shop be able to require one? Besides: it’s highly unlikely that an “average dive shop“ has a set of doubles to rent you in the first place. Doubles are not rocket...

That’s the funny thing about rivers, at least our river. We have every bit the same circumstances as you’re describing. Unrelenting current, rocky bottom, and if you grab onto something it’s just likely to come with you as stop you. (After all, in the end, it’s actually the same river as...

Hey, that’s my river! :-) I live an hour from that dive. Through the summer, I probably do it 30 times? It’s by far my favorite local dive that doesn’t require getting on a boat. And other than paying for fuel and breathing gas, it’s free! :-) It is a very challenging dive. I do not recommend...