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It's a bit unclear, but I think you are asking how to fit a scuba regulator to an oxygen tank. You have seen that they don't fit together! The oxygen tank has what is called a "Pin-Index" fitting and the scuba tank has a DIN fitting. I'm assuming you have access to oxygen tanks from your local...

I am thinking about buying some Carbon Fibre (CF) tanks. Partly because they are much lighter than Steel or Ally's and I sometimes want to drag tanks through dry cave to get to sumps. Lighter is obviously easier to carry. However this isn't really a big advantage if I will have to carry a lot of...

I swim (freestyle) 1.5 kilometres (1 mile) in the pool in 30 minutes. I do this twice per week when I am at home. I think this keeps me feeling very familiar with being in the water, which has to be an aide to diving. It does give some fitness too, but I think other activities help equally...

With all the extra gear needed for SM, and thus more chances for gear failure and problems, I carry a small tool kit with me all the time now.

Me too. I don't think this is macabre. A little concern keeps me grounded in my assessment of the risks vs my skills. Athletes will tell you that mental rehearsal improves performance. This applies to dealing with problems/the unexpected too. If you never let yourself think about what may...

I've been diving for 35 years. Only the last 5 with a computer. I am just a sport diver. I also was taught to ascend using the bubbles as reference. There was nothing else to use when I started as most of us dived for several years before we could afford dive watches (very expensive in the...

I am also just getting into sidemount now, after several decades diving. What I am learning is that it takes a lot of fiddling around to get the rig right. It isn't yet. You will have to buy some new gear. It feels very different to back mount diving. I agree that unless you have a good...

Beautiful. So enticing...