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    Is it time to go electric?

    Hi! So with the winter around, the air temperature is dropping below 0*C and water stabilizes at 4*C (<40F). I dive a trilaminate drysuit with merino thermal underwear followed by a powerstretch undersuit (see Kwark Navy Fleece Undersuit - Man for English desc) with an additional vest (Kwark...
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    Why no weight pockets with doubles?

    Hi! I'm starting to dive with doubles. Not moving pas rec at the moment, but having enjoyed the experience during fundies, I think I may as well practice valve drills once in a while, and save half of the trips for gas fills :). The question is: why somehow nobody seems to use weight pockets...
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    Light - murky and dark lakes

    Hi all, thanks for stopping by :) In search of a light. Diving mostly in lakes. At first visibility sucks because of sediment/blooming/whatever, so need something tight to not loose a buddy and not get terrible backscatter. Underneath, visibility sucks because, well, all the light got absorbed...
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    DIR- GUE Post-Lockdown Swiss Fundies - Report in Episodes

    A pretentious Fundies Report S01E00: Pilot (Pre-Course) It's January 2020, New Year's resolutions still have not been forgotten. After a dive-wise pretty decent for me 2019 I decide to take the Fundamentals. At that point I'm at around 90 dives, a happy recreational diver, albeit with bp/w and...
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    DIR- Generic Fundies as a first encounter with doubles

    Hi all, my first post here :) So I'm signed up for Fundies for March 2020 (planning FTW!) and the instructor suggested I do it in doubles, even though I'm aiming purely at rec pass and don't think I'll do too much doubles diving anyway. Her reasoning was that unlike drysuit it makes not much of...
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