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To be perfectly clear, you shouldn't need to have any air at all in your BCD to stay neutrally balanced at safety stop depth with 500PSI (35BAR). If you need air in your BCD at safety stop depth (15-20 feet, 5 meters), you are overweighted, assuming you are diving wet. It's true dry, but you...

I'll let you know when I have learned it...

Personally, I like to run my hands all over every type of coral, invertebrates and vertebrates so I know for sure which ones hurt the most when they bite/sting/whatever. You can't trust books, personal experience is best. So what if I destroy the reef in the process of my experiments...

Do find out, if you don't know, what the lift capacity of your BCD is... that's important when you are using integrated weights and adding weight to your tanks (or using steel tanks, most of which remain several pounds negative at the end of the dive. Your BCD needs to have enough lift to keep...

Feels almost like having a bomb strapped to your back, doesn't it? :) I once got a rental AL80 and had 3700 in it... that got my attention!

That depends on who is doing it... it may also be indicative of somebody who knows EXACTLY what he or she is doing. Lots of wet fill stations in cave country, where they do some pretty hardcore fills.

My wife and I have both switched to hog rigs, and I am wondering what's the best way to keep the inflator hose in a streamlined position when not in use. I REALLY hate anything dangling even a little, but obviously that hose has to be easy to put over my head at a moment's notice....

I learned a lesson last year being helpful. I was diving with a guy that was on his first and second dives after OW, and he clearly didn't have buoyancy control down. We were at about 30 feet when he put some air in his BC... he put in too much, and started to go up, got confused about which...

That is a sure sign that the end times are here...

One thing about the hyperstretch suits, they snag something fierce if they are ever TOUCHED by velcro. Additionally, 3mm is generally so flexible you don't really need super stretchy materials. I use a 3mm Henderson Thermoprene that was like 69 bucks on sale at ScubaToys a while back.

Deep sea supply has a nice complete outfit for around $500 including wing, backplate, hog harness, cam straps, etc. http://www.deepseasupply.com

You speaketh heresy.

Yep, there are several brands and SunuCleanse is one of em.

You've already paid for the trip, go on the trip. See what you are like when you are there... sometimes a change of scenery and sea air will knock out any nasal problems. Additionally, I would recommend you get saline nasal flush and start on that right away... Don't dive if you are sick, or...

I know this is taking what you are saying out of context, so I will say that up front... what I am stating below isn't the same thing that you were talking about. Having said that, I do want to make the following point about the fallacy that a rudimentary "class" such as PADI's AOW offers any...

Have fun with it (and don't forget to fully charge up that battery!)

I had a brand new pair of hard sole booties (with exactly two dives on them, that day) walk away from me at Vortex Springs in Florida. I left them sitting on a table with some other gear, and didn't notice they were missing until I unpacked for my next dive. The staff at Vortex found a pair...

Dove it with H20 in mid may, at that time the oil wasn't within 80 miles of Pensacola. Got our air fills at MBT and they had a guy who was doing nothing all day but answering the phone telling people where the oil was. Cancellations galore. We had the wreck to ourselves, the only boat out...

I like Hendersons, but fit is key.

And you are supposed to clear your ears in that thing how?