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last boat dive I did a fellow diver failed to fold in his long legs on the roll out and got his fins caught under the racks, was quite funny seeing him bent backwards over the pontoon of the boat, had a quick laugh before going to help.

My understanding from reading here and elsewhere A deco stop is a planned stop to off gas after a technical dive, usually at multiple levels for varying amounts of time to reduce the possibility of getting bent from too much nitrogen in the body after a long or deep dive. A necessity A safety...

Foxfish, I have the probe and with 12L tanks I have to tuck the strap back into the bcd so it should be fine with a 15. I only have my nav dive left to do to finish off my advanced. I dont have my nitrox ticket yet, I hope to do the deep sometime in the not too distant future and my rescue as...

-Darn pity you aren't "over the ditch" I'd be happy to do a couple of easy dives with you and you could use one of my 15's and one 12 Thanks so much for the offer, maybe one day I will be able to take you up on that offer. I found out a friend has a 15 so I might ask to borrow it. I like...

thanks for the help, i currently have 14 kg (28 lb) of weight with a 12.2 steel and my sac rate on the last dive was around 17. it's slowly improving i think it was around 20 at dive 12 and now i'm up to 18. 64 mins under for about 160 bar max depth was 8 m.

The only ones I can seem to find easily are the 232 bar, I asked about the 12L in the 300 bar ( as i have 300 bar din first stage) and the shop said they weigh more than the 15L 232bar so I should just get them. I have a long torso, 190 cm tall 120 kg dry I have the probe hlc bc xl.

Hi I'm looking at buying my first ever tanks and was wondering is the extra gas of the 15L is worth the extra 4 kgs in weight extra. I am looking at Faber steel, there is $50 au difference in price and I will be using them for a mixture of shore and boat dives in Southern Oz all year round...

Im just new too and I got the din with a converter, only had to use the converter twice so far. I like the security that it seems with seating the din as opposed to the yoke.

I don't remember learning this skill in ow but something I will be practicing for now on. Thanks for the thread.

All I can say is WOW.

Thanks for the advice, looks like some pool sessions coming up. cheers

As far as making your tank last longer, take a look at THIS post I wrote a while back. Hope some of these ideas help! Thanks for the pointers, I am taking slow and deeper breaths and try to keep movements to a minium, i believe i am horizontal in the water as when i kick i dont move up or...

Hi im just new to this game and i just started my advanced open water on the weekend and did the deep and wreck dives. when i did the deep dive i felt overweighted at depth, i really struggled with neutral bouyancy. i assume this is due to the pressure causing loss of bouyancy to my wet suit...

Hi everyone, I just completed my open water and had a great experience. I have also just organised all my equipment and can't wait to go diving again. After reading a lot of the posts I think I will spend the next 50 or so dives working on weights, bouyancy and breathing and I am never going in...

Jakey, I only just got qualified feb so no experience but it was the most peaceful relaxing thing I ever did. I was very nervous standing on the edge of the boat looking down but once in the water it was fantastic. I did get a bit nervous again when I saw a forest of kelp ( it looked like a...

I didn't do this, equalize at the surface, but did every metre or so, so I was able to enjoy the dive without any discomfort, but I have been practicing the different techniques dr Kay showed. And I finally got the wife to make an appointment with the ear specialist. Thanks again everyone

Crass3000, faze, Diver0001, g1138, TSandM, Peter_C, cleomagic, thanks for all the info. i assumed that she got all the ear infections from swimming etc due to having a narrow ear canal and i thought this might also be the resason that she has trouble equalising her ears. she has a referral to...

Hi, I've just gotten into diving and love it. Now I would love for my wife to join me but she has a lot of trouble with her ears. She regularly gets tropical ear/ ear infections for getting water stuck and when she did a discover scuba course she had trouble with equalizing at the bottom of a...