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Some of the previous statements in this thread really reinforce my proclivity to dive solo. That being said, on the occasions that I do dive with a buddy, I tend to adjust my expectations accordingly. If the buddy needs to call the dive for whatever reason, no matter how trivial it seems at the...

Rent your gear during your training. Rent again before you ever buy.

No, I think she's warning people not to take the bracelets into salt water and stating that customer service did a great job replacing it. Here warning could save someone else from ever having to call customer service in the first place. She said it was a PSA rather than a customer complaint...

You'll have no issues. In fact, if you have access to the business class lounge you can even enjoy a glass of wine or a beer in the airport. I average 150-200K miles a year for work and Hamad International is one of the few airports where I don't mind having a long layover. It is quite literally...

I prefer to dive alone. If I dive with another person who expects a buddy diving experience I tend to focus on watching that person and worrying about them and not enjoying any other aspect of the dive. That being said, the "group" dives I've been on in CA are essentially solo dives. We all get...

We're having massive Sargasso weed patches washing ashore in South Florida at the moment. The best you may be able to do is to get a local boat here to take you out to the weed lines off shore. (the western edge of the Gulf Stream roughly 3-7 miles off shore in Broward county depending on...

Below 30-40FSW depending on how the diver was weighted he would have been negatively buoyant already. Pharyngeal reflex would have likely kept almost all water out of his lungs at terminal gasp. The physiology of freediving is a little counter intuitive.

@The_Aviator_1 Thank you for those screen grabs. Puts the location into stark perspective.

My current employers all race leader bikes on the weekends and go on week long road trips on their Harleys during the summer. The Warranty Manager and General Manager are riding the CDT on enduro bikes this fall. My diving/freediving/spearfishing is rather pedestrian compared to their hobbies! LOL

My watch is an original D4. I had two solid black elastomer D4 bands break and the blue/black D4i you see above disintegrate.

I just received the above eBay knockoff band. The silicone band material is very good and appears to be the same material as the band on the new Novo watches. How can they sell it for $9.95 with free shipping you ask? The hardware. The "stainless" hardware that comes with the new knock off band...

No idea what the manufacturing/material issue was but I was very disappointed. Here's the factory one that disintegrated.

I just retired form the Navy in 2014. I was a sonar technician and spent my career tracking submarines. I can tell you that low frequency sound can travel enormous distances underwater. It's though that humpback whales communicate at transoceanic distances. Diving La Jolla Canyon you can also...

I'll send you pics later. I had one strap less than two years old break as I was exiting a dive at Santa Barbara Is in CA. Replaced it with a factory strap. It broke while sitting at my desk. I purchased another strap from a local dive shop here in Hollywood, FL and waited a month or so to...

Carpet shark?

Just ordered one. I'll let you know!

Yup. There was no other way I was going to wiggle into that crack and grab that lobster...

I had a slightly psychotic driver waiting to terrify me all the way to Port Suez so the longer I stayed at the kiosk I figured was the longer I stayed alive. LOL

Same Same Dogbowl.

Hmmm, I just showed up in Cairo and bought my Visa in the airport? $25 and they just stuck the sticker in my passport and stamped it. I've actually had more trouble getting into the Bahamas. (I travel extensively for work so carry a substantial tool kit in a Pelican box)