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Nope, everything should be find with O2 percentages < 40%.

Man, you're just as bad as GI3.

I would definitely recommend trying an off-the-rack suit first unless money is no object. DUI comes by every November and lets you try their suits in one of our local quarries. There may be some DFW LDS's with rental suits you can try although the only one I know of went out of business.

Air is free.. it's getting it to 3600 psi that's so damn expensive.

I have a small knife (cut off steak knife) on my harness and a even smaller (and very sharp) Z-knife on my computer's wrist strap. As far as where to mount one while snorkleing, I guess the leg is as good a place as any.

Do you mean that you never unclip them or that you can get by without unclipping them? Having a hard time imagining how you could breath off them clipped off and at the same time they are stowed neat enough so they don't drag.

I would be interested to know at what point and why his buddy decided to go for help. Did he try to free his buddy until he was running low on gas himself or did he believe he could get aide to his buddy in time? At what point did the victim decide to ditch his gear and was his buddy present...

We're basically debating applying DIR techniques to other environments. I do have a hard time believing that one single (and narrow) mode of diving can be optimal for every environment. I've never seen a convincing argument otherwise. Now, for people who dive in multiple environments, there...

I'm sorry for you loss. Welcome to Texas.

Very good read Daniel. Thanks, that's exactly what I've been looking for.

Sorry, saw Ginnie and I was just thinking Devil's.

Great video. Where in Ginnie is that?

Man, LDS's must really hate Scubaboard. 10 years ago when I got my first card I must have walked into the dive shop with a big yellow hat that read "Sucker". A good computer that will take you quite a way and is fairly cheap is a Nitek Duo - a 2 gas switching nitrox computer that can has gauge...

I just don't think accident analysis should always stop at "wasn't trained". From the information available, nothing indicates training was actually the issue.

You know, this may be a rather unpopular opinion and please don't flame me for it but perhaps his death had nothing to do with his lack of formal training. Just because he wasn't trained doesn't mean that's what killed him. Perhaps we just dismiss the accident as lack of training so we can...

I am having a hard time imagining how he actually got stuck. At 600' in, JB is big enough for a school bus to turn around in. I guess he was poking in some crevices. Edit: found more details, apparently they were off in some side passage.

Mike, you are going to ascend and descend with every breath. No amount of lead is going to stop or even slow it enough you'd notice (the inertia of extra lead will slow the ups and downs but I'm guessing it would take another 50# before you'd notice). From in-my-head calcs, a normal adult male...

This would probably be more appropriate in the Basic Suba Discussions forum. TDI is not strictly a technical agency (it's been a long time since nitrox was considered technical) and rescue is usually considered a recreational class. Now to answer your question, I would bet it doesn't matter at...

If my money-growing tree hadn't of died last year, I'd have another reg with a 5' hose on it for single tank pretty reef diving as I do find the 7' hose a bit cumbersome on singles/no can light but not so much that I'd want to swap it out for a 5' every time.

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