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If you find small size beneficial, then sure, use it, but also get used to folding it out eyes closed. There are many choices to make in diving and each one comes with both benefits and drawbacks.

Too many moving parts. If you are in trouble, you don't want to start solving a puzzle.

Get a silver colored permanent marker and write your name or a symbol of your choise on your fins. This, obviously, works best with black fins. Put reflective tape on your cylinder. Get some colorful hoses: Miflexhoses | Miflex Scuba Hose | Miflex Regulator Hose And then... I'm sure no-one...

It could be 18 pounds, still.

It's also a great app.

Punctured gloves should be quite rare but badly sealed ones are not. Flooded drysuit gloves become quite cold after some time (now, some people, like me, wear merino wool gloves and wet mittens without feeling cold, but exposure is limited in these cases). Your drysuit does not flood though...

I assume you mean latex wrist seals. They are convenient when changing to wet gloves/mittens or diving with bare hands. They however impact the air flow and may make your fingers colder than needed, when wearing dry gloves in icy waters. You need to choose between ease and comfort with...

No, we are not mad or bad. We know that many buddy divers are, in effect, solo divers. We, on the other hand, are just solo divers and we take the precautions needed.

The choice between analog and digital runs deep. Analog is physical and unpowered, digital is interpreted and relies on a battery. In some extreme cases, emergencies, analog gauges are easier to understand. A digital gauge requires you to read the digits, then understand them. An analog gauge...

Some of us reject the idea of air integration. And yet we can do some serious dives. Some people love the idea of seeing the remaining air on a screen, though. Air integration is not a key feature. It is a nice thing to have in case you love it. Buhlman algorithm (if you become a decompression...

Now, if we think about the industry, there will be tens of thousands of divers who would love a mask that can do fish identification. They wouldn't spend 1000 on a mask though. They want it for free.

This is just a guess: I believe that their biggest problem was that the device had great features and a very low price and it got very popular then but it was not mature enough for mass sales. It had some problems, and I guess they did not have the resources to provide support. Then Covid19...

I had a 7ft hose and we were instructed to grab the hose (not the 2nd stage) while donating air. There are reasons for such a procedure. The problem could have been avoided had I been more alert or with changes to equipment.

Welcome :) I had a similar set-up until I had to donate air. During an air sharing exercise the second stage rotated upside down and did not perform well at all in that position. Please be carefull with that 90 degree fitting, if it can rotate.

As long as you can survive a catastrophic dry suit flooding. My dive buddys suit flooded with near freezing water. A drysuit cannot be relied for buoyancy. There must be an independent backup with enough lift.

The weight pocket. One could thread the weights on the harness webbing instead and maybe have more flexibility.

divecomputer.eu (in Poland) used to sell a lucrative dive computer but it wasn't quite mature enough and then support issues and other stuff (I guess) made them fail. If you would be able to find one of those, it might be a solution - especially as you are in Poland. You'd need to talk face to...

You do not need to take the strongest possible blend. You could choose, on medical grounds, something that has a more modest excess of oxygen. You need to consult a hyperbaric doctor, or Divers Alert Network. I am not qualified to give you advice. The key things to learn on a nitrox course are...

If you like China, that is. There are two things to consider: 1. features 2. consequences

It's time to learn to watch the analog SPG then. If you follow the rule of thirds, you'll not need a computer making predictions on remaining air. Besides, the computer cannot know such things as swimming with vs. against the current. Or maybe you get a Mares Puck / Suunto Zoop / Suunto Vyper...