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Are you C2 with GUE? Where are "the caves" you're talking about? Cause "sidemount" takes wildly different forms in FL, the Riveria Maya, Cheve, and Canadian caves - and that's just in North America

yeah same. It's so much easier with a 50 which can basically function as a cane

Replace the valve

Extend the wires on some Peet's boot driers and drop them down the legs. Then hang up with a big hanger.

You still have to pick up the cylinders, with a single arm, so the weight is hanging on one arm off your shoulder anyway. Then trundle up the beach. If using a (single) 72 you are better off with it on your back. 2x lp50s then SM. lp45s are no longer made but widely available

Then you're like me and have dozens of bailout cylinders held hostage to expensive mix fills years and years past their hydro expiring lol

You still have to carry the tanks which can be awkward and difficult on even the best of surfaces. Lighter cylinders is a huge help. Lp50s for the win honestly since you can frequently leave them at the shore, walk up and ditch your BC and lead then return for the tanks.

Your bypass (picture?) is probably causing more problems than solving anything. The cell can just go into the gas flow immediately downstream of the stick. The less of a "T" there is the better.

When the mouthpiece is in your mouth and the reg is flopping around unattached, 99% of the time the new AOW diver is going to fail for an octo vs shoving the mouthpiece missing 2nd stage back into their lips.

More like everyone diving doing any kind of decent dive has gone CCR. But there are still folks bouncing down on air in OW. It's actually pretty common to do the Bikini dives on air since helium is even more ridiculously expensive there than normal high prices. The DCS rates on air are also...

Yeah and? There are people here prattling on like it never happened "Hal Watts trained and Bret Gilliam (supposedly) did blah blah blah" There is a very good reason that 60m dives on air went out of fashion 30+ years ago and the Rouse's joint passing in 1992 was a big part of that. The OP can...

What are you rambling about? They were not in "poor condition" they choose air for cost reasons. They were as "qualified" for air at 65m as anyone debating the issue now decades later. Their dive went pear shaped, the combination of narcosis, gas density, CO2, and the overhead all overwhelmed...

Some of us fully accept that refunds are provided when the weather, boat, staffing or otherwise prevent the "boat leaving the dock". Once the boat leaves the dock then your fees are sunk. So it never even occurs to me to ask for a refund. But this is also contingent on skippers not taking...

Yeah the Rouse's would like a word about deep air being "safe"

Be grateful they didn't require CPR or die. And that you didn't spend the afternoon being interviewed by the police about a fatality. And eat the cost of the charter. Also stop going on big group charters with strangers. If the diver in distress was a good friend of yours, you'd be more...

400ish hours and I still refer to the checklists for my units. Although I don't actually mark the paper.

I've carried on both a Meg and a sidewinder. Never had an issue even in Cancun. They are way more concerned about lithium batteries and lights 99% of the time

It has some serious depth limitations amongst multiple other concerns. You can do better things with your money many of which are well described in other threads here

Yeah that doesn't fly around here at all. Nor emails "from Faber"

Ocram's razor. Or dive mix to 1.4 I really don't care. I won't and there's a couple decades of practices from early mix adopters which back up the practice