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Austin is the home of batman. I think there is a quasi-almost DIR group in Austin but I am not aware of an active DIR community there. But, it has been a very long time since I was diving locally there.

Arguably, 300 bar helps better protect the threads of the reg and yes I have even see the one, very, very rarely, "ring" the cave with his valves. For just the backgas I don't find it that big of a deal to make the few extra turns and it does at least protect the threads and make it harder for...

Real world reasoning. Out of gas is usually not actually out of gas. It is more often a gas not immediately available problem. That most often happens at stage and deco bottle switches or other times when your light is clipped off. It is very common to forget to put the light cord back over...

Stuck on the BC inflator is pretty creative, but they do tend to reach out and grab stage regs, particularly when you are scootering. Usually you can just lift the light head free. The trick is learning how to do it smoothly so your teammates don't react. If your inflator is facing you and...

Lamont, time to go to work. The toilet just got backed up with too much stupidity.

You are confusing cave practices with OW ones. Other than some of the logistics issues discussed above (and ignoring the nickel rocket reasons), it is not common for open water dives. Read this thread and you will have learned everything you need to know to do complicated stage dives on the...

First stages are fine but there are better alternatives now. Second stages suck and always have. Upstream design that can fail closed with the added bonus that they are super finicky and when they do freeflow they dump an enourmous amount of gas. You don't need that level of gas delivery...

You guys are making this too complicated. You could do this dive on a PADI air table. 100 for 20 minutes (I assume that is within the RDP nodeco limit), find your exit pressure group, then use that as your residual for the 50' portion. Given the profile, that example has plenty of padding...

For the really shallow stuff in Mexico, keeping hydrated, watching your exertion, etc. is far more important than spending a few extra minutes at 10'. I have done some ridiculous times at 40' average and surfaced basically just slowly following the last part of the cave up and had no issues...

In most locations, for open water, non-mix dives you really only have a handful of different dive profiles and slightly more variations with multiple dives. What I did when learning this is printed out some really agressive 2 or 3 level multi level dives using decoplan with effectively no deco...

Pre-Halcyon. I know my oldest and most used AUL doesn't have one and I would have to dig the others out of whatever box they are in to see if they have them. With the size of the cannisters now, even turned out the switches are about the same distances in from your body as they were turned in...

I have a better solution for that. If the dive requires gloves for warmth, I don't do it anymore.

You guys are all soft because you started out with well built gear. The older can lights didn't have nice switch protectors and this happened a lot more often.

Seems to be a bit of a skills issue here. My recommendation is to get in more practice with your 7 iron. You do not want a critical piece of equipment flopping about. Snug against your plate. Switch is on the inside to better protect it. You are only moving it in an inch or so by turning it...

You can buy a blank lid to clip on the cannister when transporting. Just do that. If you can mess up a non-acrylic battery case absent a pretty major accident you need a medal. Just put the head/ lid in a safe place. Small pelican box works for this. The carry cases are overkill for...

Actually, only JeffG gets the latter out. It makes you the former. You must be right. I have no idea how to route a 5' hose. I really don't get how you guys are having tucking problems with the 7' hose. It works just as well as using the cannister. Heck, Danny and some of the other...

This is what I would recommend. The resetable clock is nice but not real necessary and easily replicated with a $50 Casio and you need a watch anyway.

My Vytec depth sensor died too and I replaced it with a Tec mostly due to the price difference even at wholesale. I am now on my third replacement, which is a 2G. Needless to say, in my experience the Uwatecs are even lest robust than the Suuntos. As others have said I like the features but...

I thought 4-5k at avg of 95' on scooters was a big dive (and it is) right up until I started diving with the guys in Akumal and we were swimming 10k+. Of course, most of those caves have numerous exits (in the middle of the jungle) but the distances do get insane on the shallow stuff fast...

Funny how we all tend to think our earlier dives in JB had the worst flow. Then most people wise up, stop swimming, and don't notice it as much. I thought JB was awful until I dived Good Enough in Amistad reservoir. Walls are perfectly smooth due to the water flow, no hand holds at all. It...