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To help us understand better, is the issue you can't seal onto the inflator to orally inflate? Like air leaks out your cleft palate as you're trying to blow into the BC? Or is it just lung strength, you can't blow hard enough but have a good seal on the inflator? What ideas has your instructor...

Your service technician will be able to tune any 1st stage and 2nd stage combo to breath fine. The practicality of having same Brands is so you can take them all to the same dive shop for servicing. If my LDS services only Sherwood, and I have a mix of Sherwood & Scubapro, then they won't be...

NAUI Rescue or Adv Rescue will both qualify as prerequisite to PADI DM. You're going to have to ask a NAUI instructor to teach an Advanced Rescue class. It's often not shown in dive shop ads, simply because it's kinda unique compared to other agencies; so often not heard of. Any NAUI Instructor...

Oh boy, I'm a different person now and not really in the mood. Go for it and let us see pictures. I would be humored to see the hose routing. Also a video of the firefighter-inspired pack drop of a solid wall tank +scuba unit onto the pavement from a standing position.

Tanks: Look at your tank VIZ Sticker & Hydro Stamp before every dive trip Valves are recommended to be serviced at minimum every 5 years or at hydro. Otherwise it is inspected for leaks and not serviced preventively unless one it found. (according to Thermo's service manual) Regulator & BC...

You don't need to soak for 24 hrs. Here's what a soak is accomplishing: Rinsing internal of 1st stage where the piston spring or diaphragm housing is exposed to silt and the environment [those little port hole(s) at the end of your reg] Rinsing the internal housing of the 2nd stages Everything...

Yes it can. You don't need to scrub or de-soil a wetsuit; so a washing machine even on delicate/perm press is too heavy duty. The tumble cycle could also damage the zipper or tear the wetsuit if the cord get's wrapped the wrong way around the wetsuit bundle. Or in the case of a top-load: around...

My friends and I just let our millennial depression & social anxiety out by crying our tears into a 10 gallon Rubbermaid BRUTE trash can and then take turns dunking gear. They go for about $20 online and don't break easily like typical garage storage containers when you tip the water out...

It was the most likely speculation based on the short timing since the last sighting of the diver with his last know body trim/position. Also giving into consideration that the diver's experience precludes panic induced reg and mask ditch. The likely catalyst of the fatality was the inadvertent...

I know he didn't have any gap other than summer between his final graduating quarter between UCSB & starting postdoc at UCSC. Same goes for when he graduated undergrad and started at UCSB. I'm not familiar with his or Diver 2 & 3's agenda of diving. But if I made it convoluted in my last post...

I do not believe the reciprocity letter for Diver 1 is accurate for lifetime career dives. Here's why: *edit* Pg 17 shows lifetime dive log. The dive reciprocity log used for the the scientific program at UCSC does not account for all recreational dives logged, just scientific dives with that...

It is not an occurrence for UCSC. I do not know of USGS or NPS but I have not heard of any reputation for that placement in my experience.

A public update was release in February 2020. Excerpt below followed by the full quote & links. You can find my original response to this thread on Post #10, which I still agree with. I received the report last year when it was released amongst our dive administrator organization. There were...

If you have your wetsuit inside your booties, your booties will flush and your feet will tend to be very numb in cold water. Wearing your booties as intended, with your suit cut tucking outside the bootie, you'll prevent water from leaking in only if your bootie is a zipperless design, and bonus...

There's no universal, it's mainly charades past the few universals: - OK - Up - Down - Out of Air Everything else has some form of regional dialect. To answer your question, generally if you keep it slow and simple most divers will be able to piece it together: Check Gauges (air pressure)...

I would always clip my spool to my chest D-ring and cover it with the elbow of the arm that was holding my mask and reg to my face before entering. After entry I would transfer to the butt either during decent or during our first stable depth hold. After the dive, I would transfer the spool...

Wateree Dive center is a popular LDS in Columbia. All my divers from Columbia mention it.

I started with a 40in w/ Angle Adapter, went to 7ft hose for years, then swapped back to a 44in w/ Angle Adapter.. 40in is just a tad short. 44in leaves the hose drapped by your waist, where a 5ft hose would normally coil. The 7ft was a slight inconvenience to manage on boats, I got tired of...

You're probably rolling not on a perfect axis and your tank is swinging wide and taking some inertia pulling your down. In addition, if you bring your legs up slightly in a seated or lean back against a wall stance, you're pushing your back/tank lower into depth. Essentially you're probably...

Some docks have wagons, some do not. The Channel Islands bound fleet in Santa Barbara has wagons at the dock. Monterey Bay does not, but years ago when I worked there we'd help divers bring gear from car to boat if they asked and had arrived early before the masses started checking in. Most...