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I was on the pontoon on my own kitting up when the husband first popped up, shortly followed by this poor lady. After shouting for help I entered the water and towed her to the pontoon, de-kitted and helped pass her up. My dive buddy (a vet) quickly arrived and started working on her, and...

I'd suggest that any accuracy gain in the Stack Timer implementation would be lost in the noise of inaccuracy around scrubber lifetime anyway, and wouldn't be worth the added complexity.

I made a 'H' out of 2" PVC pipe. 90degree elbow at the top (for the feet), crossbar at crotch height to take the weight, and T pieces on the bottom as feet. Blocked off one end of the 'T' with gaffer tape, made a baffle to direct air flow upwards in the middle of the 'T', then rigged a 40mm...

Apologies, I was being a little facetious :)

Rubber is *always* a desirable solution! :D

This whole idea of boat crew checking and turning your valves as you enter the water seems incredibly bizarre to me. I've never seen even a hint of such a thing, and hope never to either!

Not to much a spelling, but I hear so many people pronounce 'Perdix' and 'Perdex'. Niggles me

That DM would have had a 'gentle' tug on her goggles if she tried to drag me to the surface without my consent.

That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works. Partial pressures aren't described as percentages - they're absolute values. It doesn't matter what depth you breathe 100% O2 at, you're still breathing 100% - whether at 6m or 600m. There is no such thing as '160% O2'. At 6m, each...

I moved to twins at about the same stage as you also, maybe slightly earlier. I'm trying to think, but I'm not sure I've dived a single since.

How many turns does each hose require before coming clean off? You're saying that three complete hoses, probably some of them clipped off to something at the other end, completed all of these rotations whilst sat on a boat? It's not just a nut vibrating off here, the entire assembly must turn...

So its not an issue if you follow the correct procedures? A bit like how having enough gas to complete a dive isn't an issue as long as you follow the correct procedures? ;)

Sounds fun. Mark is a good guy. Assuming this was in NDAC? Give me a shout if you every fancy doing some training there, always happy to spend a few hours working on skills and drills - or just someone to go diving with in general :thumb:

I think that's one of the funniest 'SCUBA disaster' warnings I've ever heard.

I did the Deep South a few years ago. Personally I was bored silly by the 3rd day because it was entirely reefs. Others in the group seemed to enjoy it though :)

A friend of mine did a little while ago. Sudden bout of IBS with about 20 minutes of deco yet to complete. :rofl3: Funnily enough, he had to send the suit back to the manufacturer a few days later...

You only have to look at the barrels on all my Apeks 2nds and they rotate a little...

If it works, it aint stupid.

How big is the beard? I've got a modest one, but never had a problem.

Ascent speed of 10ft/min seems excessively slow, especially in an emergency situation on a no stop dive.