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How many of you have actually practiced the retrieval of a casualty into a boat? For those that have - Have you any tips to offer? It's something my club was practicing over the weekend and surprisingly difficult if your 'casualty' is around the 90kg (200lb) mark as a number of our guys are...

I've recently been browsing "The Octopus Conundrum" thread in the solo divers forum and was struck by the number of divers wanting to reduce clutter by removing hoses from their rig. Some are simply removing octopuses or using air 2 style inflators. From other threads I hear of people buying air...

Hi All, I've just picked up a 'Waterproof Draco' 3.5mm crushed neoprene drysuit second hand. I'll need to get the wrist and neck seals replaced before I can dive it but it seemed like a good deal otherwise (only $200) and seems to fit well. Maybe an inch or so too long in the legs - we'll see...

The other night I attended a briefing session with my dive club on the use of the clubs A.E.D's and emergency O2 gear. We spent 3 hours covering CPR, provision of O2 and the use of the defibrillators including practising with training units and resuscitation dummies. The session was conducted...

Topic says it all. I'd especially like to hear from anyone with direct experience with these regs.

Hi all, I wonder if anyone else can confirm this behaviour from their Suunto Mosquito? I've found that by using the Sunto dive manager software on my P.C, I can change the Mosquito's sampling rate from it's default (either 30 or 60 seconds, I'd have to look it up to be sure ) to 10 seconds...