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I swapped to cordless for cave. Never looked back. Now have 2 primary lights, one as backup. Bungee cord around wrist in case I need to drop it. Big benefit is I can buy new led elements as technology improves and install them myself. Costs peanuts. Not heavy.

Are you able to access any wreck diving? This can be a very interesting and rewarding path and one which will be useful if you end up in overhead environments or doing deco dives. I think I would focus on doing interesting recreational diving you really enjoy and having got another 100 dives...

Ummm .. it was a joke

The trouble is you don’t know if you are going to panic or not until you hit a really adverse situation. I got really stuck in a restriction cave diving. I mean wedged. I did not panic, but I would not have known that beforehand. Good training, experience and good team work, finally got me free...

Because it’s so much easier to reach your valve...

The time got this was when I had the cumberbund on the bcd done up too tight and a little high. Consequence was it restricted my diaphragm and made my breathing more difficult so it felt like the reg.

Caribbean ?

I think the idea wth recreational diving is you turn the the valve fully on before donning the bcd. Checking to feel if your valve is on is not the first response to out of air, although perhaps it should be. Unless of course you are someone who thinks it’s a good idea to turn it back a quarter...

Reported on the front page of the London Times today. (Subscription) but basically agrees with the above but says Egyptians tried to hush it up to avoid tourism damage.

I’m sorry, I don’t think gue or utd are mainstream recreational agencies and I think the op should stick with what he has been taught which isn’t gue or Utd. Turning your only gas source on a single tank off underwater strikes me as very foolish and isn’t any valve drill I’ve ever done.

Typo amended

I tried a few different BCD’s and ended up with Zeagle Stilletto. Lots of adjustment for height, weight, dry, wet. I love it. Lots of videos on YouTube. Personally I wouldn’t dive a back plate and wing with a single tank. I dive doubles with it because it serves a purpose rather than a pose.

None unditchable weight is for technical diving.

First don’t worry, but you are not equalising yet. Wait til your instructor teaches you. There are very few people indeed who can’t equalise. It’s nothing to do with ear wax.

Dry? Wet? Cave? Recreational?

What agency is that you teach? And which one soecifically has that asa a standard?

No you don’t need to do reach a single and it’s quite unnecessary. With doubles you need to but not a single tank. There is no dive agency that I know of that teaches turning off a valve with single tank with it on your back underwater. Frankly, forget it. But then I don’t know why anyone dives...

Learn to dive in Spain in a wetsuit. I personally recommend Rivemar Diving just south of Alicante, google them, they have an English website. Don’t be put off by the stuff about cave and technical diving, just click on the tab that says diving school. Don’t worry about the U.K. experience, it...

Why do you want to reach the valve?

Its just some webbing, a bladder and a few metal rings like any other sidemount harness :)