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Are we talking DSD in the pool or are we talking the optional open water dive in the DSD? Those are two very different things for me. 4 are very manageable in the pool, but if you're doing the optional open water dive that would be much more difficult. Having never done an optional OW dive as...

I really don't wanna get into it in this thread because this isnt the place, but from personal experience, 4:1 DSDs can absolutely be done safely with the right conditions. But to your point of staying within standards and being unsafe.... Thats sort of an oxymoron. At least in PADI in...

Well, re:standards discussion and ratios discussion. Night is direct supervision for padi. Regardless of all the ratios, the minute they could not see her, they were violating standards. The fact that they got all the way to finishing the dive makes me think there might have been a...

PADI Standards checking in. This is probably a PADI class given the shops around here, so I hope these standards are helpful to the discussion. For the night specialty, a light and a backup light are required, but there is no performance requirement for switching to a backup light. For the AOW...

This is one of the things Id be interested to hear. According to PADI standards for the night dive, each diver must have a light. Loosing the diver + not being able to see her light from the surface would easily be explained by a violation of this standard. As to why it took authorities so long...

I 100% agree and expect that there is probably some fault that belongs on the instructors, but my point was that we should reserve final judgement until we know all the details. I could sit here and speculate all day about what happened, but Id rather wait for details to come out before agency...

Ah, then allow me to redirect my comment to the #37 OP :) I find it HORRIBLY distasteful to use the loss of a student in your own dive community to further your opinions on the toxic agency infighting we have in the scuba community at large. If you do have any factual information about what...

Oh I must have missed some information. Do we finally have a report to read rather than speculating on what happened? Whats the hate with WRSTC agencies? Do good instructors only exist in unaccredited agencies? Usually is crappy instructors that give crappy instruction. Not sure what an agency...

What are your conservatism settings? Also, you mentioned that one dive you blew your NDLs? That also ticks the computer off. Don't do that without proper training and equipment. If you could, upload the profile along with any previous repetitive dives.

There are two types of dive computers that I like: a puck style computer, or a petrel [n]/perdix. A puck computer is the simple wrist style computer (like the zoop or the i100). For you, it seems like a simple puck computer will be perfect. I would cross off the list the d4i/d6i computers, as...

I have one with a custom bungee mount (also have the original band). Maybe 50 dives on this battery. I also have the computer cable. Feel free to make me an offer!

Have you looked at the fusion bullet/fit? I have a very old version of this suit (when it was still whites), and it still dives wonderfully. They will fit like a made-to-measure suit off the rack because of the neo layer that squeezes everything, and also vents very easily because of that. It's...

Im interested in the backplate and weights! Ill take what Malarky doesn't want.