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A tricked I picked up from underwater hockey is to have the snorkel go under your ear, to the back of your head and secure it with your mask strap there. It basically then sticks out of the water at the back of your head. I don't use a snorkel holder or anything that could let the snorkel...

I agree, what I was after was a way to tell you'd even want to give that particular buddy a try. I guess my thinking is there are --divers who would be good buddies and divers who would not be good buddies. Then there are --divers I would try to buddy with and divers I would not even...

The change in pressure is the same from 15ft to surface than from 45ft to 30ft and 90ft to 75ft. The pressure change with depth is always density * gravity accelaration * depth rho * g * h It is correct that the last 15ft are the most dangerous when it comes to lung expansion. According to...

Just found a piece of crumpled up paper in with the bills from the trip. Here are two dive boat operations you can try in Monterey: Beach Hopper 831-458-3648 Escapade 831-465-1185 Glad to see you'll be diving Monterey.

Well, today's your lucky day. I'm just returning home after a trip to Monterey and 2.5 days of diving in the Monterey area. The water is cold, but it's not the end of the world. I dove a 7mm (well, I think it's technically 6.5, I should check really) full wetsuit and wore a 7mm core-warmer (a...

I asked a related question on a different thread recently and got interesting answer. (Let me know if you want to find the thread, I have to run to the shop to see if I'm diving today.) The opinion I came out with from that thread is that there are three different "facets" to a diver: skills...

Dannobee, I agree with you. I learned to scuba dive in northern quebec, where pretty much everywhere, if you go deep enough (which is often not very deep), the water is always at 4C and merely being too close to the bottom would automatically kick up a cloud of sediments that wouldn't come down...

I find this discussion informative. I must say, I agree with everyone here that the real way to judge someone's diving abilities is to dive with them and see. What I'm after is not really something that would replace that, but something that could sort of complement it. I'm particularly...

I regularly see the "how many dives have you done" and the "what's the deepest dive you've ever done?" threads with the usual answers that basically say "You can't judge someone's skill level only by how deep he went." I was just wondering what people would suggest if they had to devise a...

Bought one of those when in Hawai'i, the first time I went out with my a620+canon housing. Cetacea Corporation - Scuba :: Coil Lanyards :: Coil-Lanyard Works great and is probably 20$ at most, I really can't recall. The fact that it snaps back to a short strap when not using it made it quite...

Actually, I'll be visiting the monterey area and diving around the same time (April 2 to April 5). I'm flying on the 6th in late afternoon, so I should really be out of the water by the afternoon of the 5th, but I'll dive (shallow) in the morning happily. I have already contacted MBDC about...

I'm watching it now, just because the ad running all week kept infuriating me so much. "You think he's a terrorist?" "Why else would someone dive in this muck?" I kept grinding my teeth when I would hear that exchange. If the water was clear enough to take a picture from 3 feet away, then it...

Why not look in the photography community? I would assume that the price of underwater photographs is pretty much the same as that of "regular" photographs. Look at stock agencies and what the prices are that come with their stock photos. You can look at Corbis and Getty. www.dpreview.com has...

While I love office space, allow me to disagree. I'm probably biased because I'm trying to get a scuba diving wiki off the ground, but still allow me to express my feeling that I think it has potential. I don't think you'll get definitive answers on certain "hot" topics that spawn threads after...

Thanks all for the info, quite appreciated. I may have worded some things incorrectly. When I said that the dive rite BP, transpac (and transplate, I guess) could all use the same weight system and accessories, I didn't mean you were locked in. It was my impression that the waist strap was only...

This is slightly OT, but let me ask still. Technically, you're right, although I admit I don't know fi there's an actual metal plate inside the transpac or a plastic lump, but nonetheless, I'll take your word for it. You probably know better than I do. Question is, thoug, given that: -within...

There's a link on diveriteexpress.com transpac + wings + weight pockets (16 or 32 lbs) + the all important crotch strap 720$ no tax free shipping

I think there's exactly what the poster was talking about here www.wikiscuba.com (I'll disclose right now that I'm one of the two divers who started this wiki.) Not much to look at right now, but if more people come in and edit, it should get somewhere.

I don't know. But if you're going to wear wool socks in your boots (or whatever under your wetsuit), it will probably have to have a little slack to give you some room. Said space will fill up with water. So between websuit with water wetsuit with cotton wetsuit with wool I take wool...

I was certified in '97 and I think I had a pretty good instructor with stringent requirements. We did do buddy breathing (although might not have been while surfacing, I can't remember), there was a fair bit of swimming involved, towing unconsious diver (which I actually used with a panicking...