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  1. Vicko

    A Shoulder Dump For Vertigo Ascent

    I love having a right shoulder vent, not just for myself but it makes deflating runaway students and customers so much easier. It's also great for work dives since you spend most of your time vertical.
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    Croatia - Meet My Boat Diving

    Impossible, the ferry ride lasts 2.30 hours and the first ferry arrives at 11.30 am, last one leaves at 6 pm during the summer. You would be late to arrive for the morning dive and probably late to return from the afternoon one. Surface is around 23C and bellow the thermocline drops down to...
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    Question Apart from the purchase price, what are the ongoing maintenance and repair costs of your CCR (excluding consumables)?

    I own a pathfinder. I need to change my molex connectors once a year, every time I do it I need to shorten the wiring, once I shorten it enough it would be a good idea to send it off to a service centre, but I guess I could also do that myself. A friend of mine was quoted 400 euros + shipping...
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    Different entry technique with multiple travel gas / stage / deco cylinders

    I'm just going to say that floating on the surface, fiddling with tanks in a strong current and waves, with a dsv or even worse a full bov in your mouth sucks and is a excellent way of getting seasick.
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    You are MUCH more likely to die in an accident on a dive liveaboard

    I know that ships over 30BT require a registered captain and engineer, but to what actual standards they are trained I have no idea. I know that normal crewmembers have a pay of around 40-50 euros per week + a cut of the tips, and that used to be a lot less. I doubt their training is done to...
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    You are MUCH more likely to die in an accident on a dive liveaboard

    The author notes that and limits the accidents to ship related ones, even if they do happen on ships carrying divers. The interesting thing when you start reading trough the analysis is how the Rea Sea accidents, especially fires were caught in time to stop them, just nobody did. I'm guessing...
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    Fins for flutter kicks

    Freediving fins in and around cages and loose lines are extremely annoying. I had a workmate who used only old red scubapro splitfins, the stiff version and I laughed at him until a overweight diver three times my age outswam me again and again. If any of the jet fin clones are putting to much...
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    You are MUCH more likely to die in an accident on a dive liveaboard

    Again, I personally believe that a lot of passenger ships have completely inadequate safety procedures, especially diving orientated ones. As someone who, from time to time, gets to drive a boat full of divers I know a part of why that is. Safety standards are expensive, and divers are cheap...
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    You are MUCH more likely to die in an accident on a dive liveaboard

    Using the news as a source for statistical analysis is problematic because it will only publish the outliers, the worst incidents. Using the data you derived from those outliers to compare against the data of the European Maritime Safety Agency or insurance providers is pointless, you are...
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    You are MUCH more likely to die in an accident on a dive liveaboard

    Page 10. Statistical analysis. "Due to these difficult circumstances in obtaining official information, a large number of accidents were probably not found. Therefore, the data that was found is not completely reliable." Page 50. First paragraph of the summary "For a statistical analysis...
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    You are MUCH more likely to die in an accident on a dive liveaboard

    Liveaboards (and their lack of common sense safety procedures) are a problem, but a study that uses inadequate data at best (I would not call it fraudulent until I actually find the study) can't be taken seriously.
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    You are MUCH more likely to die in an accident on a dive liveaboard

    That's the point, SOLAS (passenger) vessels report everything as the company would take a major fine if it was proven that they are hiding anything. I know of at least 2 serious liveaboard incidents in Croatia just last year that thankfully ended with minor injuries and you will not find any...
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    You are MUCH more likely to die in an accident on a dive liveaboard

    To be fair in commercial operations the victims are usually fit, or at least medically cleared crew members and the accidents are reported even if it's "just" a broken bone. On a liveaboard the reporting is much more lax, having 20 reported falls down the stairs due to intoxicated customers...
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    Drysuit and squeeze question

    Your body has nothing to do with the stiffness of the vacuumed suit, the air in the suit is the thing getting compressed and the resulting vacuum is the force keeping the suit stiff. There's a lot of variables, the amount of air you started of with, the cut of the suit, the material it's made...
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    Drysuit and squeeze question

    If it restricts your movement enough that you can't add air or swim back up it does not have to kill you by constriction. A panicked diver goes trough the gas much quicker than someone would expect. And even if you can breathe it will create a lot of resistance that will prevent you from...
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    Question Deserved DCS hit even with deco cleared due to high exertion during the dive?

    Did you go over some mountain passes on your drive home?
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    XTAR New DH1 1600 Light is Coming Soon!

    Of course it's not a 1600 lumen light. But I do love my xstar lights for spearfishing, excellent beam width and good penetration, I have a 6 year old d6 that's still working great.
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    Drysuit and squeeze question

    How is this hard to fathom? There is no pressure differential, the dry suit is squeezing you because the volume on the inside is reducing to equalize the pressure with the outside as you descend. Once that volume gets small enough it starts to constrict you, leaving bruises and in extreme cases...
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    Question Are You Tired of the Taxi Ripoff?

    Do you guys go to vacation abroad just to get angry at stuff that would not bother you if you were at home?
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    Croatia - Meet My Boat Diving

    THere are 5 dive centers on Vis. Depending on the port you are staying in, Vis or Komiža you have a lot of choices of dive centre and most of the them can arrange some sort of transfer for you. You are better off using google and contacting them directly to arrange more, but considering most...
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