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Yes, but there's no official tool there to prevent putting excessive force on the housing if the valve assembly is seized.. Thanks to everybody else for the suggestions, strange I couldn't find the tool suggested by Tanks A Lot on the Scubaclinic site.. in the meantime I found this one as well...

G'day, Servicing a Mistral, and I can't disassemble the barrel of the 2nd stage. I don't want to put too much force on the nut as it's housed in a plastic housing and I don't want to crack it. It's never been dived so it shouldn't be corroded, but it's way tighter than I expected it to be. The...

Thanks for the heads up. Must say I've only traveled between civilized countries with my dive gear so far and been especially spoiled here in Japan where they absolutely baby your luggage. As an example, they place the luggage on the carousel in such a way that the handle is always facing out...

I don't know, I'll find out the details.

I believe so. All the Triton divers I know dive it similarly. You can get a steel 2l O2 tank for it which makes it a bit heavier, but there's no on-board diluent solution for it (that I'm aware of). A mate of mine is playing around with a couple of small carbon fibre tanks he's looking to...

Triton's about 12kg ready to dive - but bear in mind that's the unit only with scubber and 1.5l O2. Diluent/bailout, harness, etc is separate. I usually dive mine with my XDeep, so a single Alu80 as dil/bailout. If planning deco dives, I'll of course have more bailout. I also dive it with a...

Your instructor trainer should have told you... Basically you either need to take the specialty with an Instructor Trainer, or show that you have sufficient dives in that speciality to teach it. In either case you have to lodge an SDI Specialty Instructor Upgrade Form with your local SDI...

If Subsurface crashes while attempting to import the dives, it's possible to debug and try to fix the cause of the crash (and then hopefully end up wtih a full import). Alternatively if you can already open the mdb with a database viewer, does that allow you to export the contents to another...

When travelling (ie, flying) with my recreational travel gear, I just wrap my regs in my wetsuit, or tuck them inside the rolled-up BCD, no additional weight and just as good, if not better, protection. Mask and torch in a fin pocket, etc. When going away for a tech trip (usually car, so weight...

Please be aware that this is not as easy as it sounds as Queensland still has stringent entry requirements, especially if arriving from overseas. You will be required to quarantine for 14 days at your point of arrival in Australia if you want to go to QLD. So even though NSW allows...

Nobody is "bashing" this. As an industry, we are very keen to learn from incidents precisesly in order to raise awareness and learn from them to prevent future incidents. I'm sorry if you're getting the wrong impression. But point taken, we are getting off-topic from your original post.

That is not a "buddy". That is an Instructor. A buddy can't certify another diver. And yes, if that's what happened, then there are going to be a LOT of questions asked... that would be close to a criminal negligence case for the dive professional in question. Under no circumstances should an...

I believe you may have gotten a very wrong impression of what a "dive buddy" is. What you're describing is a Divemaster or even an Instructor. A dive buddy is literally just that - a person that you dive with on a particular dive. There's absolutely nothing special about a dive buddy. Sure...

Zip cover is definitely a plus and doesn't impact donning/doffing. In retrospect, I would have ordered a plastic main zip instead of the metal one. Apparently you can always "upgrade" from plastic to metal if you change your mind, but not the other way around. Just had my drysuit in for...

FWIW, you can use transmitters from other manufacturers as well, and they are often SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper.. personally I use the Aqualung ones.

Lol, most of us guys have the opposite problem!! Shame you're not in Tokyo ;) As others have said, if you have the time, instead of doing a "refresher" you might want to consider doing at least an Adventure course if not your entire AOW before going. It should only take a weekend or two at most...

Thanks to everybodies suggestions and input. There were some interesting things to consider, but ultimately my actual use-case did push me towards a more standard wheeled bag. So I ended up buying the Northface Longhaul 30" after all as I found it at a good price and have personal experience...

You don't have to convince me but to whoever makes the decisions at Shearwater. If they can get all the AI rec divers to spring $1200 dollars instead, they're happy. Personally I think selling X x $600 is better than Y x $1200 as long as X > 2 x Y. Same profits, more people happy - and more...

The only thing the Peregrine has over it's competitors in the same price bracket is the screen. Which, for my old eyes, was a must-have, and the fact I wanted a backup computer and couldn't quite justify another Perdix AI. But to otherwise compete on a price-feature basis with other...

I, and several other people who I dive with who have Blacktips, have had this happen too. Just try again and the scooter starts up again. Haven't had it disabled to the point of needing to pull batteries to reset it. Just a thought re cruise-control, potentially a safety issue? Would it make...