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As mentioned you need to be careful not to go home with someones home or maybe even the occupant. I will take interesting bottles and do my best to evict any dwellers. Sometimes I will gather "trash" though most sites are already quite tidy. The biggest volume we find here in Mane for junk is...

I have posted on the "how" but when your post was quoted I realized you may have a few more gaps. At almost any time in the dive YOU WILL SINK IN THE WATER if you do not have some air in your BCD. At the beginning of the dive you have a full cylinder making you something like 5 pounds "heavy"...

There is a SCUBA PRO plastic buckle (or there was 10 years ago) that is much sturdier that the model you cite. I have a few floating around on weight belts and they saw 100's of dives. Still plastic but if you want to take this route it's not unreasonable. The sturdier plastic may nibble into...

If you do the test your instructor described at the end of the dive (Cylinder pressure ~500 PSI) you will have a pretty good idea. It illustrates that once you are sopping wet you are barely buoyant (~5 lb) at the surface. From there you can anticipate that at safety stop depth you will be about...

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When you dive in the drysuit you probably will be in a less constraining garment so you would be measuring yourself in a sans belt form. As for the garment, don't mess with your measurements they are what they are. Work with your dealer to allow for the garments. Suits meant to fit a given...

Don't fret but don't stop reading. It's great practice in learning how to think as a diver. Diving is very safe but most basic training is centered around disaster mitigation, hence you read a lot about recovering from assorted pratfalls. The more you read about issues and how divers discuss...

If all else fails a good custom suit has a minor price premium to a quality off the rack suit.

Neilwood, I suggest ignoring any attempts to prescribe your weight. The variables are endless making remote predictions a shot in the dark.Take what you know as a starting point and go dive. At the end of the dive go through this exercise and see what that tells you. Pete

On the physical exercises the objective is to learn the best way for YOU to handle a situation. You will not all end up equal, that's reality. From "giving it all" you should find yourself very tired and perhaps sore. I have to say that my in water portion was very limited and amounted to a non...

This suggests it's time to update your dive count unless you have a stand-in making dives with your rig.

DIN is DIN as far as thread goes. Anything else would be beyond obscure. 200 and 300 BAR as mentioned denote the 5 or 7 threads. The key point being 3500+ for the 7 thread version. The 200 moniker is misleading since it applies to any cylinder rated below 3500 PSI, hence it's the base...

I agree, compass skills are mostly common sense once you try. Begin on land fumbling around in the back yard or park getting from place to place taking periodic readings as you walk.. You can do most dives without even thinking of numbers so do so for now. You will need a reference. For shore...

That's a cacophony and the operator should step in to prevent mutiny. ---------- Post added August 15th, 2015 at 02:09 PM ---------- Now you're (or they) out of the space of community and missing out on even more. Incidental helpful information could be missed and the shared experience is...

Go here, see post #12

I'm sorry but a dislike for county music doesn't cut it and I don't consider myself a fan of the genre. As things go it's mainstream enough. If you don't have enough bandwidth in your tastes to let it be part of your experience perhaps you need to be finding a more private setting for your...

I concur with all that the + is bogus and meaningless. It is a special permit cylinder and it's rated outside of the 3AA family that is eligible for the +. You ask a good question with regard to redoing it. While actual failure in use is highly unlikely it's hard to say if they flubbed up...

The stock sizes do not cover all of the bases by any means. An athletic build can be as much of a challenge as a couch potato. Some middle of the road "normal" folks can have a long or short torso and variations of the human form abound. Brands do have different patterns between them and...

#1 is a personal call. I agree that by all metrics diving is very safe and a dual fatality even for a couple diving beyond recreational is sub remote. However at the end of the day those times diving may be riskier that laying on the beach and the best I can say there is "may". It will mean...

The big advantage is that you can wear your lead below your natural hips and do so safely, try that with a belt! If you already have a plate and steel cylinder on your upper torso the lower weights can be very helpful in keeping floaty legs in check. This will keep the harness waist strap and...