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toshman, I went to Roatan last December, to the West End. We dove with Native Sons Divers, and the only deep dives we did were to some real neat, huge wrecks, El Aguila (101') and the Odyssey (113'). It looks like you already have everything locked in, as far as operation, dive site, etc. so no...

Heading up to Port McNeill Oct 5-9. Anyone have any suggestions for good shore diving locations?

People who make generalizations are always wrong.

Here's a video I found while researching my (hopefully) upcoming trip to either northern Vancouver Island or the Sunshine Coast. PH2010 Video

The more experience I get, the better my skills get, and the simpler and more versatile my kit gets. And please stop calling the OH (Original Hijacker) the OP.

Our dive plan tonight was to look for the anchor at Keystone, and then when we got to around 1250 psi, Soakedlontra would shoot her bag from around 40fsw and we'd do a blue-water ascent. Never found the anchor, and since I had to go back home for my forgotten regulators, we missed slack, but...

I'm the buddy of the OP, and let me speak on her behalf. The last several posts have all been about a major misunderstanding; she never meant shooting a bag while simultaneously donating air and ascending. Each of the three things, sharing air, shooting the bag, ascending, would be done...

My buddy and I have been working on air share, SMB deployment, and controlled ascent. So far we aren't proficient enough to combine them all, so we separate each skill and are building up to it. Our last skills dive showed that we need work on hovering at 15' with no visual reference. My point...

Glad to hear it turned out OK. I'll be interested to see the results of the testing. I called a dive several months ago, not because of a taste, but I could smell the air when I exhaled through my nose to clear my mask. It was a strange, plastic smell I'd never encountered before, but have...

I have plain webbing, but I do have a quick release on the left shoulder. I can barely get out of the harness without it. I've been told that my straps are too tight, and that the rig will be stable enough if they are loosened, but I switched to the BP/W to get stability, and "stable enough" for...

Thanks, but there's an error in the photo credit. Betty took the photo of the orange sea pen and the striped nudibranch; I just held the light. Check out that great lighting, though, would ya? We never found out what was going on with that slug hanging off the sea pen. Maybe the nudibranch...

Sunday did not greet us with the same cheery sun my birthday was blessed with; it was cool and gray. Earlier we'd thought that we'd forgotten the camp stove, but that was not the case. However, this morning we discovered that we had no matches or lighter to ignite the stove, so it's off to town...

Well, in hindsight, it looks like we stubbornly refused to believe just how expensive it actually is to get a decent system, even a modest one. And we didn't want to accept that we really didn't have the money yet, and didn't want to go into that much debt. But we wanted the camera now! At least...

It's nice to get away from the norm for special occasions, and we really hoped to get over to Vancouver Island, or at least the British Columbia coast north of Vancouver, but we've spent so much on dive gear lately we had to set our sights a little closer to home. Not to mention the fact that...

That's true.

I took it off when I went to Honduras for two weeks. I've also forgotten to re-attach it other times, but fortunately had it and the wrench. It really depends on how often you need to change it, how likely you are to forget it or mess it up, and how comfortable you are doing the work and...

I don't have a boat myself, but I sometimes dive with my friend who does. He never leaves the boat unattended.

It's good to have efficient fins, but I try to arrange it so that I don't need to swim a lot. Usually I'm just gently flowing with the current, positioning my body relative to my buddy or the terrain, or maneuvering to get a look at (or photo of) something. I make headway, but it's not like I'm...