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I have a mares puck. At a 130 ft wreck with surface about 100 most of the divers approached the ndl on nitrox 30 to 32. I have never been advised to take a third suggested stop by the puck - probably because I usually spent most of my time on previous dives at 100 ft, so half depth matches the...

Last week, I went lobstering with new fins. In the first dive, 80 percent of my brain was utilized in adjusting to the stiff fins - which felt like your ten speed bike got stuck in a high gear ALL the time. Learning to maneuver it, turn, frog kick etc just wasn’t right. I did not see a...

I have been flamed for having the label DM candidate on SB for the last 10 years. Assuming that the DM status gives you un fathomed wisdom. But it doesn’t. It was just a class, and I am just a diver - non professional. But - these are the classes that impacted me: Intro to GUE - a...

I have been told to consider dry suits when diving steel tanks. I have bee diving them for years - in both wet and drysuit. But never really see if that is true. Several hundred dives later, I have not died yet! That is a YET. So I descended to 80 ft today with 120 HP single steel. 4 lbs...

I vaguely remember watching a PADI drift diving video, about how relaxing it is just to go with a current. However, it can be the most stressful and dangerous form of diving there is. Diving in still water or on a protected shore is still ideal for beginners. Drift diving often involves being...

Catchy title. But all should learn to dive as if solo. Or all divers with instabuddies should dive solo. Or all divers with buddies with camera, lobster hunting, or other tasks. Or in strong currents. Two weeks ago a dad and his two sons were lobstering. We were in pretty stiff currents...

I admit to be the dummest and dimmest diver on scubaboard. Took padi ow and aow 30 years ago, passed DM exam 10 plus years ago. And dumb enough when a diver asked me why his computer locked him out for a second dive from 55 ft... I did not have the correct answer three weeks ago. It is...

And how you dealt with. About dive 10, I was invited to join 3 other young soldiers to go on a boat for lobsters at night. To an unknown reef with the wives on the boat. None of us had lobster experience. Boat anchor was too short so it drifted off. I got sick, threw up underwater, used...

Please if you can, state your actual experience and how you utilized either smb or lift bag to assist you. Especially when there was no hard bottom. My understanding is with hard bottom, you shoot a bag or smb with a line greater than 2x depth and reel your self up. But in the case of a...

Discovered that it was ripped. Should I replace the 1.5 inch disc or just drill a hole through the plate and replace the string through that hole? A little silicone or epoxy adhesive should secure and waterproof no? If not, where to buy and how much the disc and string cost?

I feel that sometime it is upward and backward, and sometime it is backward.... But I am still lousy at it.

Just restating Halemano's poll, but with a yes or no answer.

This applies to the standard flutter kick, not the modified flutter.

Often we have to stay in hotels for diving. With incidence of bed bugs exploding over the last year, what precautions are you taking? I've seen 4 cases over the last year. Zero the last decade before this epidemic. Suggestions I've read included not putting your luggage on your hotel bed...

About 1:30 p.m. today, a newly certified diver, I was told - a 22 yo female was ooa. We were finishing up our OW check out dive for the day, and I was watching a group of students on the surface. Suddently, a group of divers was yelling for help, call the ambulance, and to get oxygen. I could...

Got my requirements all done over a month ago. But finally getting all the signatures from the 3 different instructors on the right forms. Got my physical turned in, so I'll get the application tomorrow. During the program, I've assisted 5 different instructors. All together, I've interned...

As the Dork Diver community embark on their certification card, we are finding out that it is being accepted at many (one and counting) dive sites - I wonder if we can expand our C card's capability: http://www.dorkdiver.com/ Look at our C card on the bottom of the page...

To make our D card of high value, and to undermine PADI and SSI's ability to sell card, I have the following suggestion: 1. Have an administrator verify the credential of our divers through Naui, padi, ssi, etc. 2. Have a website listing the name of our diver, and his credentials. 3...

Looking for someone to dive with at the crack of dawn or in the afternoon. I am helping out with an OW class, and would like to get a dive in before we muck up the puddle.

With all the fancy new modern inventions, high flow first stages, balanced second stage, etc... And flimsy plastic parts that sticks (purge valves), breaks (second stage housing), etc.... My son dives with a tiny lightweight genesis. When I dove with it, you do get less jaw fatigue. But...