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Wow. Did you really find it necessary to post three times in less than an hour to say the same thing? No one laughed the first time; doesn't mean you have to try again...

One wonders when an instructor comes to a forum asking what regulator they should buy, what that instructor is going to say when students come asking what regulators they should buy. Especially with some of the basic questions being asked here This is stuff instructors should have experience...

ppO2 (in these terms) is the partial pressure of oxygen in the gas you are breathing at a given ambient pressure (depth). So if you are breathing 100% O2 on the surface, your ppO2 is 1ATA. 10 meters, 2ATA etc etc. To the OPs question - deco efficiency is essentially governed by the gradient...

A brand new product shouldn't have faults, and you shouldn't have to put up with a brand new product with a clear repair - that's called refurbished. Either demand a new suit, or some of your money back.

Doing a little research online, and seems this wasn't a diving accident. More of a 'central africa is still a very dangerous place to be' kind of thing :( Sad.

Had my first dives with my new Perdix yesterday. Love it. Got shown a nice way to do the buckles up solo also. Rig them so the female clips are towards you (with the elastic going away from you and around the arm) and slide them so the female clips are close to the computer body. Place the...

These kind of straps will work : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Northern-Diver-Spring-Fin-Straps/dp/B006TZGQ1W But, you will need to carefully cut off a small notch of plastic that protrudes on the bottom of the fin post. Specifically this part:

Chap from Plymouth area, UK passed away. No details on what happened yet. Met him once a few weeks ago, top bloke!

Why does the discussion have to descend into which agency says what? The question was 'why are there two schools of thought'. There clearly are two schools of thought, and what agency a or b teaches doesn't really matter. So why do some people prefer to use the suit for squeeze only, and...

A friend of mine has just flown from the UK to Egypt and back with a back plate in his backpack. No problems. Same guy flying out of South Africa got stopped once as the security guy thought the back plate was a bullet proof vest. Forced him to check the back plate into the hold, delaying the...

I've just come back from a trip to the Red Sea with Blue O2, and I thought they were an absolutely fabulous company. Every step of the journey, at air ports and bus stops, there was always a Blue O2 rep helping you find the right way. The boat was nice and clean, and the diving was spot on...

Just finished up a week liveaboard on the red sea. Easy boardies and a rashy, 4 days a day, including night dives.

Seems we're even more lenient in the UK, with a hydro every 5 years and a vis every 2.5 years. Quite surprised how much variation there is in this...

Poor little ocotpus :(

No, you seemed to suggest that it wasn't a problem clipping your long hose reg off as you could easily pull it to your face if you needed to in an emergency. Your long hose needs to go to your buddies face in an emergency, not yours.

There's little advantage to you being able to breath from your long hose while your buddy is OOG...

Any reason why you didn't just clean the corrosion off with a little scotch-brite or something?

Atmosphere pressures etc were definitely covered in my course. And the final exam was closed book, and I'm pretty sure it was ~100 questions. There was also a second exam on dive planning using the eRDP.

In my, fairly recent, experience of certifying with PADI, all of those topics that you mention your friend didn't know about were covered fairly well. I'd suggest this is either a case of a poor instructor, or a poor student. Its probably also worth mentioning how far through the course he is...

I find the buttons on my Vyper fairly difficult to press normally to be honest. You seem to have to press them a lot harder than you would expect, and there isn't much tactile feedback to let you know that you've actually pressed it.