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I have this HOG first stage that I bought new about 15 years ago. I'm in a country that doesn't sell HOG. It's actually breathing fine except the second stages slightly seep air when on land. An APEKS service guy popped a pressure gauge on the BC inflator hose and noticed that: - the...

Ok, so it seems like there is no hard and fast rule about when to use grease and when not to since it depends on the material compatibility of the gasket / o-ring? One of the big issues I have with action cameras is eventual degradation of the gasket material. Through use in rugged environments...

I've heard of a lot of people who take their waterproof action cams diving ending up with water ingress, despite diving well within the depth limits stated by the camera and some users reporting that they check to make sure the gaskets are clean of lint or grit before diving. These action cams...

I have an old pair of Riffe neoprene socks that have a durable rubber sole - basically a thick coating of rubber on the underside rather than a fully molded sole like a surf moc would have. The rubber is starting to disintegrate after 10 years and is turning gooey and sticky. I have no way of...

I'm currently in a small European country without the greatest selection of fins (mostly Cressi and Mares). I normally have my Omer Stingray and Tilos Getaway Fins but don't have them on me now. I need to wear neoprene socks for rocky shores. Ideally I would like an actual bootie / surf moc...

I got my OW, AOW, and Nitrox about 10 years ago. Since then, I've done boat dives, deep 40m dives, stage bottle dives, solo dives, drysuit dives, drift dives, night dives, and all of them were self-taught through lots of research on my own more or less and I've never really stressed on any of...

I'm looking to upgrade my computer. I just learned that my used Oceanic computer's HP hose sprung a leak and it's a proprietary HP hose and of course uses a proprietary cable for transferring dive logs. I never liked it much anyway due to its bulk. I just called my LDS and a new hose is $190...

I think I'm just going to continue diving backmount with a slung stage. Cost to do proper sidemount (AUD): XDeep Stealth 2.0 Classic: $730 HOG D2 First Stage (I already have a D1): $300 SPG: $100 Sidemount Rigging: $60 x 2 = $120 Total: $1250 Cost to create a basic stage tank (AUD)...

That's not all I'm interested in. If I'm going to be diving two tanks, I might as well have both be side mounted, but I want to also have the option of not having to bring along sidemount rigging and rigging up rental tanks if I'm just doing a single tank dive with others while traveling.

I want to switch modes for the ease of general diving. In my head, I'm imagining that if I had a BCD that could do both back and sidemount I could simply convert it to singles backmount and directly plop in rental tanks and and just leave the sidemount rigging at home. For when I'm actually...

My LDS has the Performance Diver R1A regulators for sale. First stage and second stage for $200 AUD / 135 USD. It's a really good deal for brand new regulators. Regulators - performancediver R01A - Performance Diver - R1A Regulator Set Unfortunately, I have NEVER heard of this brand, and the...

I'm a newbie to sidemount. A year ago I dove 20-some times with an AL80 slung on my side cobbled together with hardware store stuff and attached to a standard backmount BCD with another AL80. I do mostly solo dives and I really enjoyed having the extra tank mounted against my side, so I figure...

I'm going to be roadtripping around Vietnam during Jan and Feb and was wondering if I should bother packing my 3mm two-piece freediving wetsuit. I'm planning on buying a motorbike and think the ability to just go freediving in the water somewhere along my travels would be cool, either fresh or...

I want to be able to pack really light and take advantage of carry-on-only airfares without checking in any bags. A lot of airlines have a max dimension of about 54cm or 21 inches for their max carry-on length and a total weight limit of 7-10kg. Needless to say, my freediving fins far exceed...

Continuous improvements are happening all the time to make planes better and better. You can't eliminate the chance, but you can certainly make it rarer and rarer. At the end of the day every engineer knows things will fail but it doesn't stop them from doing the hard work of making it better...

I'm guessing you're not a trained programmer? Or an engineer? Trust me the pain in this conversation is mutual. We both have the same goal in that we don't want to see anyone die. Only difference is one of us chooses to just blame people instead of entertaining the thought that maybe, just...

This isn't even getting into the entire plethora of ways the programmers of the unit can change the unit's behavior and provide customization for you, the diver, without adding or changing any hardware. Don't want it to sound an alarm when it detects PO2 drop but it's in less than 1.5 meters of...

I get that you want to eliminate false alerts. Play this through with me. - If you're standing in 4 feet of water waiting for a buddy and your PO2 continues to drop, guess what? You still have a problem. Isn't that cause for an alarm? You said yourself the O2 should always be turned on even if...

That's exactly what I'm asking. Why don't audible alarms sound when the unit is wet and above 1.5 meters? Why doesn't it start monitoring the drop in PO2 when the unit is wet and above 1.5 meters? It's obvious the unit's not at a picnic table anymore if it's wet and submerged in any amount of...

So the diver jumped into the water. At the surface, with his head still above the water, his unit was already blaring an alarm in addition to giving three visual indications to the diver? And he ignored all of them while he was bobbing with his head above the water, telling his buddy on the...