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I think you’re supposed to back the trailer (with the boat) into the water…

We don’t always get to choose our emergencies. I agree about swimming down six lbs, but I am asking a pretty straightforward question. How long would it take to go from buoyant on the surface to neutral. A traditional BCD would be able to go negative in a matter of seconds. I don’t really...

I meant, how long would a diver in an Avelo system at rest on the surface (6 lbs buoyant) take to become negative to retrieve a diver on the bottom. I am assuming the electric pump needs force water into the tank/bladder system to become neutral.

I was certified in 1980. I think diving was much more stripped down back then, but I wouldn't say better. We did a lot more in detail instruction and pool training than today, but the understanding of DCS, was quite a bit more rudimentary than it is today. Also, today you can go online and...

I have 20 year old steel tanks. I bought some stencils and spray painted my initials on them along with a 1 or 2. Not pretty but they are easy to spot. I think there are companies that make shrink wraps for tanks. I haven’t seen many, but they look okay and can personalize your gear. The down...

Probably collapsible travel fins

The Germans love things that are over engineered. This is perfect for them.

My tanks are unpainted, except for my initials, which I stenciled on the side. My kid's AL tanks are black and metallic blue, which makes telling them apart much easier when reaching for a them when one is empty. The paint is pretty beat up at this point. Yellow is a good color choice on...

I grew up in the seventies. Life is so much better now. I can find stores that have clothes that fit, I can online order the most obscure items as long as they are being manufactured somewhere. I can wear an off the rack henderson wetsuit in my size. That has not always been true...

My kids never had trouble finding me in the mall...

I am 6'7" and 240-ish. Gear that fits well is hard to get, also, big guys come with big lungs... I am an air hog and little can be done to fix that. As for in the water, it doesn't make a huge difference in open water. I will let the wreck and cave crowd comment on that. Center of gravity is...

That’s a lot of expectant sharks.

When diving In Belize, the DMs would bring a Hawaiian sling along and they would collect as many lionfish as possible, snip off the spines and take them home for dinner. If a shark showed up, they would stuff the catch in the reef and leave the vicinity so the sharks would find them on their...

Check out the Austrian wetsuit maker Camaro. I have bought one or two suits from them. They are relatively inexpensive compared to a Henderson. I suspect that you you are on the young side and are going to grow and fill out a little more. The quality was pretty good. I haven't bought from...

The newer version of the Peregrine has a compass. The originals didn't. I have one of the earlier ones. The screen is awesome. The induction charging was the killer app for me, having had computers lost to flooding, this was huge.

Leaving with a bad fill is on you. I am never unpleasant, but the shop knows me, they know I look and that i will ask for a top off. You should have at least offered to come back, if you thought they were too busy. Poop happens. If it is a trend, yeah, dump them. It sounds more like a...

$3,990 for a single tank? To do 3 dives a day would be insanely expensive, for a high volume tourist spot. It so be more cost effective to give out perfect trim classes. I doubt these units are going to prevent newbs from rototilling the reef, anyway. I can’t see how this system gives that...

That is very clever. Those are abalone shells pressed into a sand mold? they look really cool with the vintage belt. how did you attach them to the belt?

I would be curious to see what those rescues look like. How fast can this system add ballast if you need to go fetch another dive from the surface? It soesn’t seem suited for a hot drop entry, since you are relying on a water pump pushing against 4000 psi. Are you going to be able to creat...

My understanding of the system is that you fill the tank and the bladder expands to the full volume of the tank. What the fill pressure is I don't know, but, when you get in the water, you use the pump to add water to the tank (outside the bladder). To get that water in, you have to further...