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I had not heard of this until just now. That’s too bad: I’m scheduled to be down November 22-29 or so. I might’ve scheduled differently had I known it was available. (Speaking of, it’s probably time for me to throw out a post out here to see if I can buddy up with anybody while I’m down…) It’s...

Tell me you’re a GUE diver without telling me you’re a GUE diver… And yes, I do exactly the same thing. :-) Pompous Wankers unite! :-)

OK, this is something that has bothered me for a while now, and this gives me the context to ask. What do you do in that situation? There are two situations that get me: One: a diver goes up. The remaining team are where they’re supposed to be. You tell them by signaling that they’re going up...

The way I was taught was to simply take teeny tiny little sips of air. I can do 50 actuations in one lung full of air, which takes about 15 seconds. 10 repetitions is 500 actuations in plus or minus 3 minutes. Having said that, I am someone who has created a pump based system for checking...

Thank you for mentioning that: I forgot. I can’t read it either. You need a 60 hertz motor. If it’s the wrong frequency, it can overheat the motor and at the very least drive the compressor faster than it was designed. The dryer outlet has a four conductor plug. That supplies two hot, a...

The plate says 1 P. That means one phase. It says 220 V, so that means 220 V. :-) It needs 14 A of 220 V. So you will want to power that off of a 20 amp circuit or greater. A dryer or oven circuit would work fine. If it’s something you’re going to be using regularly from a single spot, you...

There’s two opposite ways you can go about this: One, a larger tank will give you more ‘air’. More air is not likely to give you *less* time, though it will probably give you less time than you think it will, because of the drawbacks that that larger tank brings. But in the grand scheme of...

I’ll throw a post out here…. I’ll be at White Star on Monday (10/23) with two other guys. I don’t get down there often, but I have been known to meet up with people down there from time to time. If I’m diving the quarry it’s usually to work on skills. I’m happy to work together with divers of...

No, the tank itself is the problem. The valve is also a problem, but that’s a separate problem. :) In the United States, in order to be filled in a commercial setting, meaning from a dive shop, a tank must have a DOT certification. European tanks don’t have DOT certifications. There is a UN...

FYI, Dive Gear Express sells the quick release parts. I simply bought one of the quick release bases and attached it to an existing Goodman handle. I used a small drill bit to drill two holes for the bolts to go through, and a larger drill bit to drill a shallow dimple halfway through the metal...

I agree. But it’s cheap. It seems that @Dann-Oh is especially sensitive to price. As a recovering cheapskate myself, I understand the concept. As a technical diver with a few years experience now, I now find it much more effective to focus on figuring out the proper plan first based on the...

I can’t believe how angry this is making me. Yeah, maybe it’s selfish, because if it were sunk as a wreck I would be able to dive it. But I can’t believe the unbelievable waste that this will be. Unless maybe I’m misunderstanding. Would the community have had to pay anything for the divers to...

Don’t mind Pete, I got your joke… :) @The Chairman I’m confused by *soft* weight. How do you do anything other than make a pile? With hard weight, you could actually build a house by leaning blocks against each other and putting a roof. But I’m unclear how you do that with bags of shot...

It isn’t that bad for recreational dives in the Lake Huron Thumb area (mainly Port Sanilac). I think it’s rare for the Go Between (the DRIS/Double Action Dive Charters boat) to sell out more than a week or two out, if at all. There’s probably 6-10 wrecks you can do at 130 feet or shallower...

Last time I was in Cave Country, I went into EE with my children. And as I was walking in I said out loud, “I’m not gonna buy any more spools. I’m not going to buy any more spools. I’m not going to buy any more spools.“ Of course I left there with a Defender Pro. In my defense, at least it...

Totally agreed. That’s the one I would have picked. At least with tanks, I don’t usually lose money buying and selling them. Unlike regs, where I do. I just sold my personal set of Sherwoods (plus service kits) as a doubles set for a diver making his way into tech. It will cost me almost as...

Still happy with it: https://scubaboard.com/community/threads/forensic-detectors-carbon-monoxide-co-detector-review.622086/

Thos thread probably isn’t a good place to debate this, but plenty of people have become ill or even died from bad scuba air that was pumped by electric compressors. There have been specific examples where a truck unknowingly idled outside of the intake while the compressor is running. I have...

Ugh, I just knew it would be that one… The MCH6 cartridge is pretty much universally considered by everyone – except maybe those who actually sell MCH6 compressors – as being too small to be useful. As a duplex cartridge, meaning without CO protection, they last maybe a dozen tanks. As a...

Funny you should ask… :-) https://scubaboard.com/community/threads/forensic-detectors-carbon-monoxide-co-detector-review.622086/