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    fitness / training plans for diving (with the help of fitness trackers)

    Hi all, In order to optimize my diving, I have been working out, while watching what I eat. I alternate cardio workouts with strength training, and so far it has been working well. I lost about 10 kg (20 pounds) since the start of the year. A few more kg to go before I am at target weight. All...
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    Anybody still buying bottom timers?

    So I lost my bottom timer. Old uwatec type. No need to replace it since I have a few computers, all of them can be set in BT mode if I want to do so. But it made me wonder, with bottom timers about the same price as entry level dive computers, is anybody still buying actual timers? I understand...
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    sense / nonsense of CO monitoring

    Hi all, I am wondering about the sense / nonsense of CO monitoring. Obviously CO in your gas is bad, but at what value? When would you breath a gas and when wouldn't you? I tried to come up with it myself, but the extremely tight tolerances puzzle me: - CO is natural, 5-10 ppm isn't unusual...
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    CPR - personal lesson learned

    Although not a diving incident, I wanted to share this anyway, maybe it benefits somebody. It is a personal story of a tragic event, I will try to write it as factual as I can. As an EFR instructor, I signed up to volunteer at a service (in the Netherlands, "HartslagNu") that sends out an alert...
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    Carry stage like side mount

    Hi all, Over the weekend I was playing with my kit and I attached a bungee to my backplate and a sliding D ring to the left side of the harnas. This allows me to take a stage and carry it like a sidemount cilinder, in near horizontal position. It is not as perfectly horizontal as in my actual...
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