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I had a pee-valve in my suit long before I started doing technical diving and I'm not a water-chugger - I just find I have to go as soon as my hands get wet. Best $100 I ever spent especially since it's a rear entry suit and a p-valve allows me to go without taking off the wrist and neck...

Other wrist :) Besides, I wear my compass on my ankle. Sea Hunt was before my time, I'll defer to your expertise.

I thought it was a Sea Hunt thing. Makes sense but I think wrist mount would be preferable.

I've never dove a semi-dry but I've had a couple of buddies dive them and they seemed much warmer than they were in the equivalent wetsuit. I hear the most praises about the Mares Isotherm. It has a drysuit zipper and true neoprene neck and wrist and ankle seals. The idea here is to limit...

I'll third or fourth that remark.. throughout your diving career, you need to occasionally do a mask remove and replace. It is something you can quickly lose your comfort with.

Adding a drysuit adds another variable to buoyancy control. If she's already having problems, I would wait on the drysuit but Bobbin-along is right, people learn drysuit diving from the beginning and do just fine but I'm sure uncontrolled ascents are more common with newly carded drysuit divers...

Cut off steak knife on my harness, Z-knife on my computer strap. I personally never understood the whole knife-on-the-leg thing. Seems like one of the worst places to have one but if you must, inside of the leg where it's less likely to get hung on something.

Let your ears be your depth gauge.

I disagree. If someone realizes that the received the standard OW training and their buoyancy and trim sucks, sending them back for PPB may not always be a good idea as they are likely to go back to the same instructor that failed to teach them this skill to begin with. I don't have access to...

I've got a Nitek 3, the old workhorse of gas switching computers. I love it except for the warning-your-hand-is-now-out-of-the-water beep which I think they ditched on the Duo. I'd bet the Duo is one of the best values out there for gas switching computers.

And the reason cave divers use thinner line is so we can get more on the spool. For the popular caves in Florida, 400' is more than enough so you can probably get away with using the thicker wreck line, say 200' on the spool, in most caves. Now, some of the caves in Akumal may take more than...

Yep, I've heard the voice and a couple of times I ignored it and a couple of times I didn't. Now that I'm a little more experienced, I am less likely to ignore it. There's nothing in those holes worth dying for and if you're hearing the voice, you're not having fun.. just turn the dive. Of...

The two day course is just one of the most egregious examples. My mother took a standard course over several weeks from a PADI 5 Star IDC (instructor development center or something). Probably the same amount of hours as the 2 day course, just more spread out. I remember when I first took her...

$500 is a good price for a 21W HID but I don't know anything about OMS lights.

I'm sure you've seen the recent discussions on the quality (or lack their of) of OW classes. Not trying to start another debate here but if you want a really good OW class a private instructor or a university program will be your best bet. It's going to cost you significantly more than the...

You are.. if you received the typical OW training, you are lucky to have learned on your own faster than the odds were chasing you but how many newly carded OW divers could react fast enough to a stuck inflator to keep from becoming a polaris missle?

Take a look at the Diverite mixed gas computers.. the Duo, etc. Another option is a VR-2 (nitrox only) or VR-3 (mix) but those cost quite a bit more. Only thing I don't like about the Cochrans, from what I understand, is that they force a gas switch on you when you hit the appropriate depth.

Gear is fairly reliable, dive masters babysit divers and luck.

With nice slow ascents and always a safety stop means no chamber ride

Watch your dive buddy He has your air and you his Save enough for both