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My necklace is easily broken away and its on a 40" hose so long enough to donate however the long hose will be cliped down on top of it preventing it from coming free. Never even thought of an octo keeper.. forgot all about those things (been donating out of my mouth for so long I forget that...

I may not have had the zip tie tight enough thus giving it room to twist instead of snapping but it's something I definitely need to get working reliably. Don't want Rick to die again while I fumble with a clip. Jess, we were planning on doing Travis last weekend but other issues got in the...

Finally got my Nomad and got it in the water yesterday. After making some adjustments after the first dive I simply fell in love with the thing. I had no issues with my trim or buoyancy and the reduced drag made it feel like I was single tank diving. The best anaology I can think of is diving...

It's no different than chemists apearing to have a fervor when talking to alchemists. "Watch me while a turn this 3# weight into gold" - "Argh, you freaking moron" "Watch me while I pray my sister's cancer away" What else are we to say? Now I'll don my flame suit.

Lol, cute :) I assume this is a joking reference to the Std 200' profile thread.

If you're local sporting good store doesn't fill tanks you can always go with EtherFill: http://www.diveriteexpress.com/gas/etherfill.shtml

Only think I've ever seen is a sail boat (right near the dam fairly shallow) and set of irons. I took the irons with me. What I like about diving the dam is the contours. It's a very steep drop until you get towards the river bottom.

I must have missed something, you take CAVE 1 or whatever you GUE people call it? You take it down in Akumal? Only been there once, can not wait to go there again.

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Not sure what kind of diving you're doing now but looking at your profile picture, it looks like you're already doing technical diving and if it's not in the caves then it must be off of boats. Most recreational caves you will find far less physically demanding; they are warmer then whatever...

The only way I can explain the first statement is to negate the second. Regardless, you seem to rule out any way for anyone to criticize PADI standards. Earlier you told the non-PADI professionals to stop criticizing PADI standards as they aren't PADI professionals and then you point out to...

Is PADI your employer? Who's paying who here? How is it in the interest of safety that PADI instructors must first give up their livelyhoods before they can speak out against what they feel are unsafe business practices?

I think most experienced DM's (and I'm betting down there, you get experience real quick doing 10 - 20 dives a week) can easily spot the new & uncomfortable divers from all the tell-tales such as difficulty setting up their gear, fidgeting, etc and make sure to keep a closer eye on them. Of...

I do as well; less of a chance of me accidently having a peice of the hood under the skirt. Plus I don't have to loosen my mask straps any when wearing the hood vs diving hoodless.

I cannot believe you just said that. Funny thing is I'm sure that's the one standard they actually enforce. "The first rule about PADI Is you don't talk about PADI."

Many very experienced divers have noted that LA County Underwater Instructors Association provides some of the best OW instruction out there far exceeding the standard offerings by the more popular agencies. http://lascuba.com/

I love the site, been using it since 2003. I use the "activities" section to essentially tag dives (Web2.0 stuff way before Web2.0 was even a buzz word). For example, I'll tag a dive as Full Cave or Full Cave Training so next time I'm in a class and the instructor asks how many post training...

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Willie is hosting it for me: http://ez.com/diving/Travis/LCRA-topo.html And uh, by the power of grayskull or whatever (yes, I'm of the He-man generation)

I have a slightly better aligned version. I straightened the image so the farthest right longitude line was vertical (it was almost 1 deg from vertical) and then cropped it so the to the upper left/lower right corners of the outside long/lat lines and then lined those coords up with google...