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Suunto did not include a battery compartment "key" with their puck style computers. OP: a "key" can be easily made with an old bicyce spoke...stop by your local bicycle shop they will either have a broken one in a waste bin or you can purchase a new one usually for less than $2. Cut a length...

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Burn it and buy a new mask. Seriously! -Z

That there is an SOP, you assume too much. To "cause a change in SOP", one would need to establish an SOP in the first place. -Z

In that case, anyone/everyone could be an idiot and/or a$$hole....stop trying to sort out the chaff and just live your life. Kind of like the The Chairman's "dive and let dive" mantra. One has the choice to scroll on by. One has the choice to evaluate someone's post count and decide for...

Why does everything need a rule and be regulated? Why can't folks just be adults and ignore the idiots and a$$holes in the world, whether it is the real one or the virtual world of ScubaBoard? -Z

Good suggestion but that may be too much fin for the woman....the old Cressi frogs have a lot of power but take a lot of input power to get them to work well, they tend to cause foot and calf cramps if one does not have the strength for them. My wife picked up a set to use with her drysuit and...

You can always pull the legs and arms of the diveskin up a bit so it doesn't interfere with the interior cuffs of your wetsuit. The reality to diving a wetsuit is that you will get wet and if your cold water tolerance is not super high, then you will be cold too. After diving a 5.5mm wetsuit...

I totally understand your rational, but since divers new to drysuits might come across this thread I just want to point out that a reason to keep seals in place is if one has plans to conduct multiple dives. If a glove is found to be compromised on the first dive, the glove can be replaced...

If you just want to splash and gain drysuit experience and don't want the hassle of cleaning salt water off all your gear, Heart Lake in the center of Fidalgo island has a nice beach to enter from...not much to see in the water but a good safe spot to get some time underwater in your drysuit. It...

Check for a tailor, shoe repair, or saddle repair shop in your area....explain to them they need to move the internal bladder away from the repair area if your DSS wing does not have a zipper that would enable the bladder to be removed (some models did and some did not). They should be able sew...

If upon inspection you find the o-ring is dirty, then clean and relube it with silicone grease....just a tiny amount so the o-ring is shiny, no excess glooping everything up. The o-ring on the blue retention ring is fairly well protected from contamination given how it is sandwiched in there so...

Unless you have a dive torch that is required to be filled with silicone grease (unlikely), then the silicone grease does not seal your torch, the o-rings do. The grease lubricates the o-rings so they suffer less wear and tear when opening/closing the o-ring sealed chamber. Could it be...

Are you eating/drinking a lot of mango while in Fiji? I know it is a common fruit there. Mango contains urushiol, the same oily substance that causes skin reaction with poison ivy/poison oak/poison sumac. The skin of the mango, sap from the tree, leaves, and even the fruit can cause a reaction...

Looks a bit like contact dermatitis or mild case of poison ivy (or similar plant). Perhaps sensitivity to detergent used to wash the bed sheets. Perhaps someone else made contact with urishiol oil (found in poison ivy type plants) and got it on a surface you subsequently made contact with...

As a "rule of thumb", if when you have your bootied feet in your fins, with your straps on your heels and you pick up a foot and shake/pivot it from side to side, if the fin moves around your foot then it is too big. Obviously with an unrestricted budget of time and money, one could order...

Just another thing that might be helpful if it applies: I earned my DM cert while living in Belgium. My instructor gave me a holographic sticker from the training package he purchased for me. He told me to safegaurd the sticker until we completed all training. When all requirements were met...

The boat operator is obligated to you and should reimburse you, and then since the other patron was the cause, the boat operator should seek reimbursement through them and/or their insurance if they so desire. It's kind of like a multi-vehicle collision where you are hit from behind and pushed...

Here is a cut and past from email correspondence between me and one of PADI headquarters' regional training consultants from a discussion we had about me thinking about letting my DM cert lapse: "A one to two year gap: no remediation required. 3-5 year gap: To activate Teaching status, you...

I think I have an email directly from PADI about this. I am currently traveling so I will see if I can dig it up if I have a spare moment later today. -Z