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Ah, awesome, I've been thinking about one of these for a while! Really great to hear a first-person report.

I think you started another thread on this already in another forum, but Bare Evoke.

None of the above - Bare Evoke! I’m a lady, and have tried tons of wetsuits. I love Bare, and their Evoke wetsuit is both warm and comfy. I have Bare Evokes hanging in my closet in 3mm, 5mm, and 7mm thickness - it really is just that good. Their women’s wetsuits come in dress sizes (0,2,4, etc)...

Congrats and welcome!

I own two Terics; the only issue I've encountered is a battery that slowly lost its ability to keep its charge after a year of very intensive use (hundreds and hundreds of dives). Shearwater replaced the battery for free. I've dived a Tern as part of a test dive, and really enjoyed it. It's...

I regularly wear a 7mm wetsuit, and have never found any kind of lubrication necessary. It gets easier with practice. Getting into a very dry wetsuit that’s been stored in the A/C for months is hard - if I have a wetsuit that’s hasn’t been used for a while, I run it under the shower a few days...

Another vote for the Halcyon v-weight pouch and soft weights; I recently picked one up to help with trim issues in doubles in a drysuit, and it’s just a really nice well-designed piece of gear.

I wear the Fourth Element Halo AR in the Florida springs/caves (72 year round), and still get cold, but I’m an outlier when it comes to temperatures - I always run way cold.

All the classic cave shops in North Florida are worth a visit, and each have their own character: Cave Country, Extreme Exposure, Dive Outpost, Amigo's (omg Amigo's), Cave Adventurers out in the panhandle, etc.

Am one of those blessed lady divers - an HP120 would last me about 4.5-5.5 hours at that depth. Dudes shouldn’t feel bad.

I can also second the recommendation for the CX3, and external charging - large collection of cheap dead lights here as well.

We are running a research project (funded by the NSF) on this question right now, taking people who have never dived before into the Florida springs....in short: scuba diving for the first time is more meaningful and has a bigger impact than folks expect (even among people who WANT to try it for...

Stratis Kas addressed this at length in the talk - this is NOT a physiological problem of being "in shape," it's a psychological stress response. I'm a research psychologist, and he is right. We use physiological measures such as heart rate and respiratory response as dependent measures when...

We did, eventually, although it took a couple hours! Coast Guard and all the other local dive boats were also out looking. Seas had risen because we had a hurricane incoming the next day, and their yellow/green SMB was small and almost invisible in the swell and white caps. A lot of things went...

We had a similar situation happen (diver went missing on a live drift, and we all missed the second dive). The dive op offered us all a credit for a free trip in the future, and honored it when I called them a year later to ask if the offer was still good.

Another vote for line-cutter here.

CoCoView in Roatan is very accommodating towards divers with special health needs; it's not going to be the Phillipines or Indonesia, but the boats go out twice a day, all the gear is stored in dive lockers and DMs will set it up for her before/after every dive. They go the extra mile for folks...

Most lakes and freshwater sites aren’t going to have great vis - neither do lots of ocean areas! Best way to gauge is just to look from the surface - how far can you see down to the bottom? If you can’t see clear to the bottom at ten or fifteen feet, horizontal vis will be even worse. In...

I know this is a long shot, but a buddy of mine lost his fins & mask after a dive at Manatee Springs last Sunday. If you happen to come across a pair of black Dive Rite XT fins (XL) and a blue Tusa Freedom HD mask, please drop them off at Cave Country or Extreme Exposure in High Springs (or drop...

Ah, Evoke is the woman's suit (I'm a woman); I believe Reactive is the men's version of the Evoke. But seconding everything you said, their suits are truly excellent - I'm really impressed with the newer neoprene too, and how easy it is to get off and on, without sacrificing any warmth.