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Part of the class is teaching about digital photography, part of it is actually teaching you stuff about how your personal camera works underwater. Some of it will bore you to tears if done the "normal" way, but they will take you to the pool and you will learn to set your camera's white...

Definitely get to a pool and do some swimming before the class. Most "lap" pools are 25 meters (or yards if they are older pools) long.

Not just the blade though... gotta watch composition of all metals in the knife... some have blades that are fine but handle parts that would corrode.

You may indeed have nailed it right on the head, then... not what I thought you meant, sorry. I am sure that every type of diving has these types of folks in it, just like just about every activity known to humanity... the problem is, very few leisure activities can get people with this...

Always carry the equipment necessary for handling emergencies, and know how to use it. That's Sheck's rule 9. I add the following "Within Reason" For example, an AED (defibrilator) is a great and life saving tool, but I don't carry one of those with me on every dive even though I do...

Dude, if you are going to go big, GO BIG! SOG SOGfari Machete Fixed Blade 18" Knife

Honestly, I would love to have that little cut off steak knife for cutting through cast nets, mono and nylon line and 5/8 braided anchor line as well. I have some inch braided rope (nylon), inch braided rope (plastic), and monofil line here, I just tried it out out of curiosity (a midnight...

Well, since we have personally dove with several people who are on this forum and know that they actually are in person as they appear online, I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that at least some others online are as they are in real life. Additionally, we have been reading about...

Assuming you don't die along the way from a lack of having the basic necessities for safety while doing something potentially dangerous. Minimum tools = depth guage, SPG and timing device.

Many folks actually recommend 1 foot for every two seconds as the fastest ascent rate. The "rule of thumb" is to not ascend faster than your SMALLEST bubbles but to me, this seems a bit hard to do, especially in current. You should have a timing device and a depth gauge. If in doubt, simply...

Gear is just gear, we dive what we dive because sometimes less is just plain more. The only bit of kit that I have on that isn't "really" necessary for OW is the 7 foot hoses (everything else is necessary, got to have a backup secondary whether it is a traditional octo, bungied secondary or...

Probably "DUH, she should have had a Spare Air to bail her out!"

OK, that's a lie. My dive knife is SMALLER than most. I admit it, here and now and in public. I use a short, stumpy dive knife. It's a DIR sawed off stainless steel kitchen knife, with a sheath made out of 2 inch webbing. They are available here (if you don't want to make your own): Deep...

I do not think the person the advice was from was an actual "owner" of any facility, but the person did work for the (unnamed) facility. Yes, we did dive Vortex but it was not the only commercial place we dove, and we won't be singling anybody out. However, what she is talking about isn't...

Looks like a LOVELY place to dive!

I admit it... some of the best dives I have ever done have been shallow. Several of them have been EXTREMELY shallow, as in 6 feet of water or less. I recently had a fantastic dive in 6 feet of water, at Ginnie springs in the spring run between Devil's Eye and Little Devil. I shot some of the...

Rescue Tape has a tensile strength of 950 PSI? On a HP hose? Ummm...

The day the "real divers" pay for my tanks is the day they can decide what I do with them. I keep em on the tanks I dive in pools with, since the local pools require them. On my OW steels? No.

There are MANY in the central USA. One of the biggest is Mermet Springs in southern Illinois. Another is Haigh Quarry in Northern Illinois. Here in Missouri we have the Dive Stop Quarry in New Melle, Quail Run Quarry in Rolla, and Oronogo Blue Water Lake in Oronogo, to name a few.