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I second Wendy's recomendation of Jill Heinerth, or her husband Paul Heinerth. They can certify the cave courses by NSS-CDS, and NACD, and I think IANTD. Just call Scuba West (727.863.6911) and ask for Jill or Paul.

I can see myself getting my arm stuck in a pipe in Home Depot. :D What about for flat slates? Can you get flat sheets of PVC? Are the flat slates PVC or another type of plastic? Thanks, Katrina

What is the name of the type of plastic dive slates are made of? Does anyone know where you could buy it in bulk by the sheet? Thanks, Katrina

A friend of mine has a t-shirt with a picture of a dog on it, and the dogs name below. The owners sold the t-shirts to help pay for the dogs hip surgery. I'd love an Aggressor & Huges doggie t-shirt:) Good Luck!

There's a book, called "The Lakes of New Mexico", which is avaliable from amazon.com, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0826317146/qid=1027006841/sr=8-5/ref=sr_8_5/103-9805749-9867808, as well as in the "local interest" section of New Mexico bookstores, at the airport, at National Park...

I have only been clausterphobic once under water. I had a schedualed dive the day after someone I knew died diving. I felt like the water was pressing in on my, especially my face. It only happened that one time. I did notice during another dive I felt anxious. After examining things I...

Since you probably have to mail order anyway, you might try www.sierratradingpost.com They have several nice wetsuits at pretty good discounts. They have a great return policy so I'm sure you could order two sizes and return the one that you didn't like. Look at the 5mm semi dry by Camaro...

No, I'm the slow one, it's suppose to be 100, not 80! Arrrr. Sorry.

This is a good question. An Al80 tank holds 80 cubic feet of air at 2640 psi. If you submerged an Al80 in a bathtub it would displace much less than 80 cubic feet of water, maybe 1.5 cubic feet (maybe you ment "how much space the tank takes up" by "external displacement"). A LP104...

As a traditional open water diver I bought the DUI BCS, which is the previous generation of the Delta. I thought it would cross over nicely when I got more technical. Here was my impression: I had the smaller wings (medium, I think). In single tanks one side of the wings would fill with...

The real one is http://www.wesskiles.com/IMAX.htm Sorry.

For Journey Into Amazing Caves, Wes Skiles actually dropped the lighting umbilicals in from holes he made in the ceiling, not the entire distance from the entrance to the cave. See: http://www.wesskiles.com/IMAX.htm, about the middle of the page, under the picture captioned "Ancient Accident or...

Munin: Thank you, you're right, there would not be enough air left for self rescue. I totally overlooked that. Your answer-- "this is unsafe because..." was just what I was hoping for. What if you started with 2A+B air in the smaller tanks, and 3B air in the larger, and turned at (A+B) and...

Recently, as an intro cave diver, I decided to practice calculating thirds with dissimilarly sized tanks. Confidently I made up a problem for myself: Diver A is diving twin HP 100's filled to 3000 psi at the beginning of the dive. Diver B is diving twin HP 120's filled to 2800 psi at the...

For a good, non-padi basic book try Jeppesen's Open Water Sport Diver Manual, avaliable from amazon.com. It's alot more level and neutral than the PADI/NAUI texts. And it tells you how to do things, something I have not found in some other introductory books for other certifying agencies. A...

Tomcat was totally right, and I have to apoligize, it's alot easier to treat the dives like repetitve dives with no surface intervals. I generally use the NAUI tables for multi level dives, which require a 10 minute surface interval. If the SI is less than 10 minutes the first dive, SI and...

I've found the wheel to be expensive & not necessary. I know PADI requires their dive masters to have and be able to use a wheel, I think it's just more money in their pocket. A normal dive table can be used to calculate multi level dives (or estimate them for computer users). Here's how...

My husband has talked about modifying scuba equipment for our dog. I don't think the dog would mind diving, but I'm not sure she'd like it better than playing catch or watching TV on the couch with us. Two questions immediatly came up: How do dogs equalize? We frequently go from 5000'...

I was a Green Bank kid too, in 1995, I think (Warren wasn't there, but another guy from Virginia tech was, Chris). Would you believe my bike got stolen? (Green Bank has about 35 people in it, aside from the 40 or so observatory folks, no one locks anything). Nerds do seem to make the best...

Thanks to everyone who posted! Roak, I did my masters thesis mapping a spiral galaxy with the VLA:-) You don't live in Socorro for the diving! -Katrina