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In addition to a lightweight BPW with an aluminum plate, you could also look at the Aqualung Rogue. It weighs about 2 kgs and it can be easily disassembled so that it packs completely flat. You can opt to not use integrated weight pockets and instead wear a weight belt, saving you a little...

As @Belzelbub wrote, consider what you want out of your dive computer. Any cheap dive computer will work just fine and do what you need it to do for recreational diving. But it's worth spending some time thinking about the sharpness of the screen, whether you want a color display, air...

The Hydro Lite goes for $640 and the HOG for about $540. The only BPW that's going to cost the OP less is a DGX, depending on how it's optioned out.

Belize. Spend half your time at a place like Black Rock Lodge in the mountains near San Ignacio in the western part of the country and do some caving, hiking, exploring Mayan ruins. Then head to the coast for diving. Ambergris or Caye Caulker, or maybe Placencia.

The hypothesis put forth by the Undercurrent article doesn't seem to jibe with the Facebook post made by the rescuer. In that post she stated that the nitrox used by some of the divers that day tested at 35%. I suppose it's possible the O2 sensor was bad, but if so it was like that straight...

My first thought was that Mr. Hughes may have breathed contaminated air but managed to surface, slip into unconsciousness, and sink to the bottom. The bleeding from his mouth may have been caused by a post-mortem AGE that was the result of bringing him to the surface. If he wasn't breathing...

So for a coronary event you would donate your reg? For a stroke? How about IPE? Hypoglycemia? AFib? Explain how sharing air would help in those cases.

At the risk of being pedantic, technically you need a 5-ring Zulu strap to be able to thread it that way. A regular NATO or a 3-ring Zulu won't do the trick. In fact, I have taken to just cutting off the second strap of my NATOs and 3-ring Zulus because all it does is make the watch (or dive...

PADI tables. AKA: Recreational Dive Planner.

The PADI RDP clearly states that a safety stop is required any time the diver comes within three pressure groups of the NDL and for any dive to 100 feet or greater. So yes, for most diving a safety stop isn’t technically required. But for the above situations skipping one theoretically puts the...

You're assuming she knew, at the moment, that he was drowsy and that it was due to contaminated air. From my reading, all she knew was that he wasn't feeling well and something was wrong. Hindsight is 20/20 as they say. Yeah, she should have skipped the safety stop, but - correct me if I'm...

Another option is the Aqualung Rogue: Rogue: dive BCD | Aqualung® Weighs 5 lbs., very comfortable and very easy to pack. It essentially packs flat if you remove the straps and waist belt and then click back together when you get to your destination.

Are you trying to download your Tern to your iPhone or to a Mac computer? The reason I ask is because I have difficulties getting my laptop version of MacDive to link with my Teric, but no problems at all linking the iOS version to it. My workaround is to download my dives to MacDive for iOS...

You need a backpack with compression straps or bungees what run across the front. Put your regular gear inside the backpack and zip it up. Then put your fins on the outside and run the straps across them and fasten and tighten. Voila.

Learning about hydrostatic testing requirements is part of open water training. At least for PADI. Did you skip that section?

The email in both cases is the same, so I assume he owns both now. Maybe?

I don't really understand what all the fuss is about when it comes to AOW. If you are a relatively new diver, the course will get you some more dives, more experience, and more useful training. That extra training is particularly good if your additional adventure dives are in solid...

From a legal perspective, I can't say whether or not a requirement to have an AOW cert would hold up in court if an accident were to happen. But I definitely know boats that require AOW for dives deeper than 60'. Unless you mean that there is no legal or insurance requirement, but instead it's...

I think you missed the several posts above that explicitly stated you didn't have to take your AOW through PADI. But if you had gone with SSI, NAUI, etc. you wouldn't get to complain about PADI. So at least you got that out of it.

I feel like we've hit maximum Scubaboard with this thread. It only took a minute for someone to suggest a BPW. Then, for the very next post we get a recommendation for Halcyon. The following response is for a DGX system. All we need now is for someone to chime in telling OP to avoid split...