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A whale vertebra sitting on the bottom in Cape Hatteras. Left it, it would probably smell awful!

You are close to some of the best cave diving (and instruction) as well.

Still love my Poseidons.

Dude, don't drink water, breathe O-2 or take aspirin, I don't care.

One time, I was diving with a scooter that didn't want to go right, and I was muscling it around turns in the cave. When I got out, my index finger on my right hand didn't want to straighten out. Dove the following day and it resolved. Was it a DCS injury or did I just strain it? I'm not...

My point was more that people usually try and convince themselves that it's definitely not DCS even though the symptoms appeared after diving. It's not going to hurt anything to take some aspirin, drink some water and breathe O-2 for a while.

Did they tingle BEFORE you went diving? No? Then assume you are having DCS symptoms.

I'll preface this by saying I've done hundreds of NE wreck dives sidemount, both open circuit and CCR. I used to use mountain bike tire tubes as bungees forever. When I moved to Florida full time during the pandemic, I was out of diving for two or three years and started back cave diving, open...

For shark diving, go to Montauk and hook up with Chuck Wade, Sea Turtle dive charters.

I guess it depends how high the boat is out of the water but you want one tank to come over the rail while the other(s) are still in the water, best if someone helps you unclip them. It's typically much nicer to do deco on the equipment line rather than the anchor line. Of course this involves...

Having done a heap of OC sidemount trimix diving in the ocean, I'd say you need to think about what you're doing. With sidemount, you can shove your tanks and gear underneath the bench and pull it out when you gear up, takes up less space. I always brought an equipment line with rings and a...

I learned in backmounted doubles but I feel safer in sidemount. I remember one incident where a diver died off NC after jumping in with their valves shut off, and I also saw it happen in person but the diver managed to reach the rubrail on the boat with two fingers and a friend was able to grab...

Another thing to consider, even though the max depth isn't more than 180 ft or so, you probably want helium in your mix or diluent for this one. The head down swim is disorienting and the circuit is an easy silt out with the soft ceiling.

It's been a long time for me but Ken or someone else who has more experience there can correct me if my memory is wrong. I think if you go right at the T-it goes to the end of the line and dead ends. The circuit involves a bedding plane with a soft ceiling and percolation is gnarly. I...

People have lent me CCR's, scooters, tanks, regs, harnesses, Edd lent me his complete dive kit when I had nothing with me. If it wasn't for people lending me stuff, I wouldn't have been able to do half the training I did when I was younger. The more experienced divers said "You go take the...

To even get ready to dive, you have to open and close the DSV a number of times, test whether it holds a +/-, and so on. That's why I'm having trouble imagining how it fell off in the cave.

I watched a service video on Youtube. It's got a metal lever that is held on by a 3/8" nut on the inside of the barrel. The nut would have to fall off inside the DSV and I doubt you could break the lever another way. Maybe someone who has one can weigh in.

Yes, I had one on a rig between the sphere (O-2) and the head because it made it easier to take it apart. It popped open when I backrolled off a boat in the ocean. I turned it around so it couldn't catch, and then I popped it open sliding into the water off the front of my Jon boat cave...

I'm puzzled by the "lever came unscrewed" on the DSV part of the equation. How can that even happen? I was looking at one (Kiss) this morning and it doesn't seem possible unless it wasn't put together properly.

I don't know what rig it was, but I think that's a yes because you're reducing the size of the orifice to the mouthpiece.