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I was skimming through the Robert Stewart accident/incident posting and am not familiar with rebreathers configs. Is it not standard practice to have a separate buoyancy bladder? Do some users configure to rely on the loop alone for buoyancy with no redundancy? There were some speculation...

My college friend is selling some gear she rarely uses. Her name & email will be provided via PM. She doesn't lurk on Scubaboard, so I'm "loaning" a post to her. ;) Any questions will be given a PM with her email. Please see below for sale quote: ___________________________________ Paypal...

I'm thinking about getting a Sidewinder reel for work & personal diving. Has anyone compared Piranha's tolerances with Light Monkey, DiveRite, or other comparable reels? Other staff divers I'm with don't always have the best of line control when spooling and reeling. I've been guilty too when...

I was sitting through a tech diving seminar at DEMA and the presenter made the comment of a scooter Throw Behind or Throwback. That is if you have a runaway scooter you throw it over your shoulder behind you. Problem solved. That's really all he said to the extent of it. I felt like I was the...

Story time! I was flipping through my log book just now. Let me preface this with a question: A) How many dives did it take you before you finally didn't have that "oh god" moment during the initial descent? And what finally caused you to get over it? Or in the case of you water babies out...

I just recently went through a complete service of some of our Omni Swivels in gear rotation. Prior to this point I didn't even think about the need for servicing or the specific inner workings of a swivel. I think most of us fall under that category when we're bashing or supporting the use of...

Anyone remember this post form last year? http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/research-development/461250-diverguard-looks-skeptics-bloggers-reporters.html Well looks like they went through with it: Dive Guard, an auto-inflator that recovers a diver to the surface if you haven't been breathing for...

We have a fill station at our Aquarium that all the volunteers and staff use to fill their cylinders. The fill knobs used to be real stiff to turn, so I recently serviced them. Had been about a year and some change since the last. Changing out the HP seat, oring, copper washer, and two teflon...

My friend just got a position with Fish and Game and is up North setting up Abalone Recruitment Modules. She's a full rated scientific diver with UC Santa Cruz. One of the usual tasks of scientific diving is staying in one place for an eternity, freezing your butt off while sampling...

I recently won a Scubapro Mk5 + 109 combo on ebay and I can't for the life of me figure out how to take off the dust cap. Hopefully the pictures explain my predicament. There's no yoke screw or place for it at all. So I'm wondering two things: 1) How do I remove the dust cap 2) How does this...

The UC Santa Cruz class did their checkout dives at Breakwater this past weekend and lost two items. One was a grey nylon weight belt of 25 pounds. 2x 10lb hip weights and 1x 5pounder if I remember correctly. Plain uncoated 2-slot lead bricks. Belt was lost between the #4 & #5 along the wall...

I just pre-registered for June 8th, Saturday. Anyone else planning to go that day? It'd be nice to meet other fellow scubaboard members.

Hi all, I may have left behind a Green size Small Eddie Bauer Windbreaker hooded jacket at Lover's Pt today. I was with a class, thought it was in one of the vans, didn't confirm, and now it's no where to be found. The students had unloaded the van as the group was getting out of the water and...

This is more of a brag post. Today I saw a living, breathing, and swimming humbolt squid in the Great Tide Pool at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The guy or gal must have gotten washed in, in this morning's swell at high tide. Several Opaleye were also washed in, but the groups took no real interest...

Are the HOG SMB's an Open-baffle-bottom or fully closed bottom design?

The Australian government has established a new plan to hunt and kill GWS's off their coast line to protect beachgoers. If you think this is a bit ignorant to justify this course of action there's a petition to make this illegal. See the last link News Article 1 Great White Sharks Off...

I recently got an integrated hooded wetsuit custom made. While trying to find a way to hang/store this suit without giving it any permanent bends, I came up with this contraption. It's meant to be used along side a regular hanger; a UK wetsuit hanger fits perfectly. You slip the regular...

What's the O-ring size for the Intova Compact and Intova Mini Torch (the older model w/ wider midsection)? I'm looking into stocking my save a dive kit with some.

Just recalling some entries I saw last weekend at the local training site. Friendly PSA coming your way. There's no need or even any safety benefit to holding your buddies hands and waddling in sideways with your fins on, while facing each other. Question your instructors reasoning as to why...

Yesterday I went on a very murky dive. With the recent plankton bloom viz was cut down to a brown murky 3'. My buddy and I stuck very close, side by side with her following me at my shoulder level. This was great and all, except I kept nugging her with my right foot while frog kicking...