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    Want to practice SMB deployment alone - Safe?

    What is the bag for? Is it just a surface marker?
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    So what is "The Pub"?

    I'm glad to be of service.
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    100' before aow... how and why?

    There really isn't anything magical about 60' vs 80' vs 100'. Conditions vary so greatly that have nothing to do with the depth. My own .02 psi is that time be spent on situational awareness and how to recognize trouble before it starts rather than some arbitrary number on your depth gauge.
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    100' before aow... how and why?

    My first ocean dive my senior year in high school was to ~85 feet and this was 1988. I don't remember the recommendation of the time. I was with my marine biology instructor a dive instructor from the school I was attending and a few other teachers from the classes. I didn't think anything of...
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    The worst dive tee shirt!!

    Now that is some funny shiznit, pun intended.
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    So what is "The Pub"?

    You don't want to go there, I will rip you a new one at the first opportunity.
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    Tattoo in progress

    Nice job.
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    gun owners/shooting enthusiasts!

    plinking learned to shoot when I was 10, hunter safety when I was 12 I guess a ruger model 1 .270 or .308 and then maybe a .22 pistol for plinking
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    When do I start to enjoy what I'm learning??

    Nah, quit now and find a different hobby. ;) But seriously, relax take a deep breath and forget about skills for a minute. Get some one on one time with the instructor to just sit, lay down, or whatever in the water and experience the sensation of breathing compressed air underwater. Take the...
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    Please help settle a Sanctum Bet - Warning: Spoiler Alert!!

    Cool, I wasn't going to see the movie anyway but I am glad I know what happens in the end.
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    Anyone ever tried Spinal Decompression Therapy?

    It looks and smells like quackery. Of course this is solely my opinion. I am lucky that I have not had any problems with my back.
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    You cannot possibly be DIR unless...

    I just utter contempt for anyone who tells me how to dive. Can you imagine if half the crap people say to you on this forum was said on a boat or at a dive site? There would be fist fights.
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    You cannot possibly be DIR unless...

    Can you dive in caves without being DIR? I hate dogma with a passion and gue is way too cult like.
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    Forum descriptions - Basic vs. Advanced

    Scuba board is a hostile place but so be it. Just be prepared no matter what question you ask or comment you make that you will get your head bitten off. It's the nature of online forums.
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    Modern "vintage"

    I want to dive vintage because I grew up watching "Flipper" reruns and because it just plain looks so cool! I also like the idea of fewer bells and whistles and getting back to what diving was meant to be.
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    Chumming/Baiting for Shark Dives

    Exactly! If you artificially bait and feed sharks and get bit, I have a hard time feeling sorry for you.
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    Chumming/Baiting for Shark Dives

    I don't care for baiting sharks, I want to see them too but not in a canned environment.
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    Faith diving and magic?

    Ever thought the OP could have just had a massive brain fart? I am not an advanced diver by any stretch of anyone's imagination, but I can guarantee that everyone has had brain farts from time to time. Obviously a brain fart while diving can have disasterous results but in this instance it did...
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    Modern "vintage"

    With vinatge gear becoming harder to find and thus more expensive, are there any manufacturers that produce reliable vintage style double hose gear? I am not really mechanically inclined so piecing my own rig from parts of other rigs is not really in the equation?
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    Rec Diving Then vs. Now

    Diving is diving. I learned with a horse collar bc, backpack, weight belt, no octopus, oral inflator and it had a CO2 inflator that I never tested. My mask was from some sporting good store and the fins were used tusa's that I bought for 40 dollars from the shop. I was 14 in 1985 when I...
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