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  1. emilyrose

    poll: DM everywhere?

    Obviously they should only DM on dry land. That's a scary thought though -- I'm already pretty comfortable in warm water apart from navigating (although a fair amount of my diving experience is in colder water, I still need a lot more practice with that... as far as navigating though, I can't...
  2. emilyrose

    Am I good?

    It probably should be. But apparently we're too busy arguing about your weight as though you're not even here... And btw, you should probably ignore basically everything any of us have said about your weight on either side of this little argument. Considering that we don't even really know...
  3. emilyrose

    poll: DM everywhere?

    I like my BC :( And I'm not really in a position to get a new one anytime soon anyway. But even if I were, the rental ones I used before I got my own, which didn't have integrated weights, were always too big, and the one I ended up with was the only one I could find that was small enough (and...
  4. emilyrose

    poll: DM everywhere?

    Been there in the summer, and considering that even in summer I ran into the problem that with all the clothes I had on under my drysuit I couldn't fit enough weight in my BC (and btw, wearing a weight belt with a BC that's not meant to need one pretty much sucks), I don't think I'll be trying...
  5. emilyrose

    poll: DM everywhere?

    Wait, what does it even mean for a reg to be inverted? Definitely what we covered in my OW course involved the reg being "stuck" (actually, it involved holding down the purge button, but it was meant to simulate it being somehow stuck/broken), and I've never seen a free flow in any context...
  6. emilyrose

    poll: DM everywhere?

    I didn't vote at all, cause I really don't think I'm in any position to venture an opinion on this without a heck of a lot more experience, but after reading through this thread, I have a couple questions... 1. Isn't dealing with a free flow a basic skill in open water courses? At least, in...
  7. emilyrose

    Am I good?

    I don't see any reason you wouldn't be able to dive. Since you don't have any medical conditions, you should be fine there. It sounds like some instructors do require a doctor's clearance even if you don't mark anything on the medical form, but certainly plenty don't (mine didn't), and...
  8. emilyrose

    Is this entry PADI approved?

    That's awesome. It's driving me crazy that there's no "like" button here though, cause there are too many great comments in this thread... Did all those other divers already in the water know you were about to do that?
  9. emilyrose

    Are we dorky enough?

    The kiddie pool is awesome. And please tell me that was in the front yard, were random people driving past could see you!
  10. emilyrose

    Are we dorky enough?

    How did you manage that? Wouldn't the nose thing being in the wrong place tip you off that something was wrong? I've put my onto my mask upside down before (so far, I've always caught it before anyone else did though), but whenever I've started to put my mask on upside down I've always been...
  11. emilyrose

    What should I look for in a wetsuit?

    Oh, lots of people dive out of Monteray in just 7 mm wetsuits, and it's sometimes warm enough that people end up not wanting their hood and/or gloves with a 7 mm. When I dive there, there are usually one or two other people on the boat in drysuits, but most people are just in 7 mm wetsuits...
  12. emilyrose

    Diving Accident on Monterey Dive Boat

    I totally get why you'd want to merge the threads, and I'm still new here and learning my way around, so I'm not sure, but aren't a lot of the posts from the NorCal forum thread (specifically, all the condolence-ish ones) sort of off topic in A&I? Plus the sequence of posts is confusing me...
  13. emilyrose

    What should I look for in a wetsuit?

    I think that depends a lot one where you're diving though. Granted I'm saying this having only one suit myself, which is a 3 mm without a hood, but at the temperatures I use that one at, it's plenty to keep me warm, and a hood would just get in the way, and probably make me overheat as well...
  14. emilyrose

    What should I look for in a wetsuit?

    I'm not exactly easy to fit either, though I guess probably at the opposite end of the spectrum... at 5'5" I'm just about average height for a woman (about 1/4" over I think), but with a 26" waist and 31" chest I don't exactly have the curves that women's suits are designed for, at barely over...
  15. emilyrose

    What should I look for in a wetsuit?

    LDS? I'm guessing 'local dive shop'? But I figure if I don't know what it means, and having bought a wetsuit I presumably have more experience buying wetsuits than people who've never bought one before, there's a good chance it's worth defining :)
  16. emilyrose

    Dork Diver or.... yes, Dork Diver

    I like the mouse hood. A bit pricy though :(
  17. emilyrose

    Dork Diver or.... yes, Dork Diver

    All I can say is wow. This is what I get for letting my dad choose my dive gear for so long -- I didn't even know there were more choices than whether I wanted pink or aqua trim on my wetsuit, let alone that hoods came in anything put plain black... I guess having to start buying my own...
  18. emilyrose

    Diving Accident on Monterey Dive Boat

    Oh, I know how to find the thread again later and all that, it was more just that I wasn't sure about the customs here with digging up relatively old threads and all that (and some forums do actually lock old threads after a certain amount of time, but it doesn't sound like this is one of them)...
  19. emilyrose

    Diving Accident on Monterey Dive Boat

    I'm still learning my way around this forum, so there's a good chance this post is entirely pointless and unnecessary, but since I don't know exactly how things work yet, and don't want to see this thread disappear before we have a chance to try to figure out what happened and what we can learn...
  20. emilyrose

    Teaching LD - Autism

    I would argue that it is, although not explicitly enough to justify something like ejecting them from the course without refund for not disclosing on the form. I also do think there's some grey area with these things, and I don't see any reason that people who are sufficiently high functioning...
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