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It makes me feel better ... particularly on those dive trips where I might be doing 40-50 dives over a period of 7-10 days. Some folks insist it's all in my head, but that's OK, since it's my head that tells me how I feel. Personally I prefer feeling like going for that fourth or fifth dive...

I'll assume that was meant to be a joke, because promoting recreational trimix for anything other than profiles close to the edge of recreational depth limits would be foolish. Cost considerations aside (most folks wouldn't want to pay $60-$100 for a fill), helium will bend you MUCH quicker than...

I would dispute that last comment in "most cases". For shallow profiles or heavy breathers I'd agree ... because in those cases your gas supply will limit your dive time before NDL does. But for moderate depths (anything below about 60 feet) and "normal" gas consumption rate (where NDL takes...

I love that ... nothing like helping an older person experience something they've dreamed about their entire life. Back in the mid-90's when I was ski instructing I had an older (76 years) woman student whose dream was to be able to ski. I usually taught kids, but when I realized that none of...

There exists a list for the seven wonders of the underwater world. They include the Great Barrier Reef, the Galapagos Islands, Lake Baikal, the deep hypothermal vents near the Galapagos Islands, the Belize Barrier Reef, the Northern Red Sea, and Palau. Underwater Wonders - 7wonders.org Seems...

About 15 years ago someone decided to jettison a VW Beetle in one of our local dive sites. They cleaned it up and towed it to a boat ramp, where they let it roll into the water, and then used lift bags to move it around. For several weeks they played a game of "where's the bug", going out in the...

Some years ago a couple of guys put down a maniquin dressed in an old drysuit, fins, BCD and scuba tank near one of our local wreck dives. They carefully placed it so that it was partially buried underneath a piece of the wreck. It scared the bejeebers out of some local divers before it became...

They come with those, although depending on the program some are more well-defined than others ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

... I believe you meant to say desecrating ... the word you used means to remove moisture from them, which would be very difficult in an underwater environment ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

From my perspective as someone who's taken both wreck and cave training, the diving skills are similar, but some of the techniques are different ... as is the mindset. I took my wreck training first ... which was considerably more than what some here have mentioned. But where I live most of the...

I'll buy that ... but 2015 was hardly "years ago" in the usual sense of that term. Curious how to they deal with folks who brought some other color wetsuit? Do they provide you with one, or do they simply say you can't go on that dive? ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

... the gear he considered inferior was a DSS backplate, Halcyon wing, Atomic reg set, and Turtle fins ... all pretty high quality stuff ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

You and I dive very different gear, style, and philosophy ... but we sure had a great time that day we went diving together, didn't we ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

... of course the other side of all of this was my trip to the Maldives, where I spent 10 days on a liveaboard enduring constant criticism from a south Florida dive shop owner for using a BPW, long hose and blade fins. He went through a thorough critique of my gear, telling me I should NEVER...

I know that ... but I'm questioning your comment that they won't let you wear anything but black ... everyone in our group (there were nearly 30 of us) was wearing whatever color wetsuit they'd been diving the entire week. Nobody on the BL staff said we should do otherwise. If they have a...

Most memorable innocuous dive ... mine would be at my local mudhole, just a few minutes from my house. I've dived this site hundreds of times, mostly because it's so convenient I could just for a dive after work whenever I felt like it. This particular dive was in December ... so it was a night...

I was at Beqa Lagoon in May 2015, did the shark dive in a red and black wetsuit, and nobody said a word. I did have a close encounter with a shark that day, but it was a bull shark ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Last I heard, they stopped making it in the USA ... not sure why ... when my dive shop told me they were discontinuing the product, I stocked up ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)