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Both are great watches. That Seiko 7548 was the first quartz dive watch. Amazing piece!

You'll be hard pressed to find anyone who only uses a watch, depth gauge, and tables to dive. It's just such a suboptimal approach that it makes no sense anymore given how good dive computers are. Some people say it's good to have a watch as a backup in case of a computer failure, but that...

It’s never a bad idea to get it checked out by a medical professional. Did you ascend at all while holding your breath? Holding your breath while diving isn’t an issue in and of itself; it is a problem if you ascend while doing it. Mediastinal emphysema typically causes chest pain, usually...

Front-zip is easier to don but a LOT harder to doff.

If you have to work/kick to get down to 3-5m at the start of a dive, how are you holding your safety stop at the end of the dive? I can see maybe having to push down for a few feet on the very first dive of a trip with a bone dry wetsuit. But 3-5m?

Just do it at the start of your first dive in the Bahamas. Let your buddy know you need to do a weight check before you descend, and do it the way you were trained. Then, to really dial it in further, do another one at the end of your dive after breathing or purging your tank down to 50...

Exactly. Do one dive where you take a suit squeeze in the nutsack and you'll never dive with a squeeze again.

While, as @Rilelen said, being hot on a dive can be uncomfortable, it is far preferable to being cold. Wear your 5mm suit and just pull down the collar and scoop up some cooler water from time to time if you find you're getting too warm. If you find that you are getting really (and...

With all due respect, there is a huge difference between healthy coral that looks “drab” due to the absence of the red end of the color spectrum at depth and the look of green algae. There’s no mistaking coral for algae. Nor is there mistaking bleached coral for healthy coral. I was just in Coz...

I sure hope the reefs bounce back. I was there recently and was shocked at how bad they looked. Huge swaths were either bleached and in dire stress or had already died and were brown and covered in algae. Far fewer reef fish than I had expected. It was my first trip to the island, so I don't...

I agree. I'm not sure why they stopped making it. Perhaps it wasn't selling as well as they had hoped? I'm thinking the release of the Rogue perhaps cannibalized Outlaw sales. OP, you first should decide whether you want a BPW, back-inflate, or a jacket style BCD. From there, you have...

Aqualung recently stopped making the Outlaw. They still make the Rogue, however, which has a few more bells and whistles than the Outlaw. OP might still be able to find an Outlaw in stock from an online vendor, but replacement parts are going to be difficult to find going forward. And forget...

Has anyone else had issues with the monprene on the inner portion of the integrated weight pockets ripping where the nylon webbing passes underneath them? Mine is just starting to tear a little bit on both sides. A buddy of mine has more substantial tears in his. It's not "structural" as far...

Sorry to hear about your accident. I broke my clavicle twice - once on either side - when I was younger. The second time I did it I was a teenager and exceptionally stupid and didn't tell my parents about it. I was heavily into martial arts at the time and had a test that evening, which...

According to the arguments, they will do whichever one your gear configuration doesn't support. :p

Personally, I don't care either way. I would just like to point out, however, the hypocrisy of at least one point made in this video. One of the things we hear all the time from the long-hose crowd is that, in the event of an OOA emergency, that diver is going to come straight for your primary...

Yes, you are correct. I should have said that the AL100 is a more buoyant tank than a steel HP100. It is bigger and made of a less dense material, and therefore displaces more.

Try diving with your arms out in front of you. This will shift your center of balance as well as allow the air in the drysuit arms to offset the lift the air in your lower legs and feet provide. Look at videos and photos of solid drysuit divers and you'll see they are nearly all in some sort...

I've never used one but I know a guy who, like you, got one for free and used it for a little while. He then got rid of it and bought another steel HP100. The buoyancy swing is something like 8 lbs. from full to empty. Seems like an annoying tank to dive with.

What position are your arms in? Does your drysuit have integrated boots or does it use socks? Integrated boots tend to trap more and can make your feet floaty. Also, you can try small adjustments to the height of your tank relative to your BCD. Some people use heavy/negatively buoyant fins to...