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Dive stores set their own "policies". Mostly out of voo-doo and superstition. I've heard it all over 20 years of diving. The best one was, "I can't visually inspect your cylinder that was hydro'd last year. You must have your cylinder re-hydro'd if you have painted it [since the last hydro]...

A sealed compass is like a scuba tank you leave in your car in the summer. What's inside expands and contracts with the temperature. The bubble is there so the silica oil can expand in the heat without bursting the glass. That expanding silica oil has to have somewhere to go under pressure...

Doesn't work around here. None of the operators will allow you to solo dive, even if you have the solo dive cert. They tell me it's because of their insurance policy, which does not allow it. The Divemaster or whomever is in charge "buddies you up" on the boat on the way out with another...

No. Ultimately, YOU are the guy who may die if the fill station monkey gets it wrong, not the fill station monkey. Case in point. We went diving in Key West in January of this year. usually, we dive 36% around here. So we had several cylinders that were about 1/2 full or 1/4 full that the...