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I splash with my left tank attached. The crew hands down my right tank, and any decontanks, that I clip on and move out of the way of other divers. If lots of surface chop I will decend before puting the tanks in position, in calm water will position tanks on the surface.

I have transmitters in the traditional SPG position on a short HP hosecwith button SPG as a back up. I also use button SPGs on my deco tanks.

I dive recreational with 2 Al80 in traditional configuration. Tech dives I will add an Al80 with 50% O2 on the left side, clipped waist and shoulder d ring and or an AL40 on the right with 100%02, attached the same way. My bands are set so I stay in trim. I make no adjustments to my SM rig...

Women also tend to have less lean muscle mass and a higher body fat percentage, even for people of same total mass, which helps air consumption.

I am a tech diver but always dive with same gear. I dive SM and only thing that changes between a tech and a rec dive is the deco tanks. 2 flashlights, 3 on a night dive. 2 Perdix, one with AI. Spare mask and folding snorkel. Folding dive knife, in butt pouch and line cutter on computer strap...

I dive out of Amigo as well. I am the guy who dove side mount wearing florescent rashguard. I usually dive twice a week so might have been on the boat with you. The corals have progressed since Odette. Not fully back by a long shot but it has been interesting seeing them recover. It will be...

I live in Moalboal, got here just before the pandemic lock down and just stayed. I have been to Bohol and Dauin but not Malipasca. Moalboal has two signature dive sites. The Sardine Run is a shore dive. It is unfortunately overrun with surface divers. Great to see once or twice at the most...

The dive shop I dive with does a lot of tourist business. Lots of new OW divers, students and inexperienced divers on the boat. If I am doing a long or a tech dive, my dive buddies and I are all ready before the briefing is finished, just grab tanks and splash first. (Dive shop people ensure...

I pressurize my regs test and shut off valves leaving regs pressurized. After about 5 minutes I check again for pressure drop, which woukd indicate a leak. Some drop is expected as hoses stretch. Open close valves again and monitor pressure to ensure zero leakage. On dive site, I open valves...

Not college but I did use Rescue, Dive Master and Tech courses as part of requirement for continuing education for my engineering license. The stated requirements are pretty open, basically anything that requires science is considered good. The advanced courses had a fair bit on dive physics...

Can the agency really claim that an instructor, who on behalf of the agency authorizes the issuing of a a certification stating that the student has passed all required course material and is therefore certified to some level of diving, is not acting as an agent of the agency? I am not...

I have around 18 different certifications, never been surveyed. Never heard of anyone being surveyed until now. I have sent emails pointing out factual errors in the course content, with link to back up my claims and have never even received a reply. Interestingly enough, it was the same error...

Does NYU Med school take someone zero to hero in 6 months? Nope, diving does, another 6 months and the new diver can be a course director, able to certify someone as an instructor. Does NYU make someone a doctor with perhaps only two professors teaching and evaluating them? Nope, nope but...

I want the reg connection to be able to be pulled apart in case of a snag or other issue.

Should dive certification agencies be held liable for the actions of their instructors? A want to be diver starts looking around and sees ads that say something like " Learn to dive the <agency> way" They think that sounds great, I will go with <agency> to learn to dive. They go to the <agency>...

I converted from jacket to BPW about the same time I stopped wearing neoprene and just dive wearing rassie and gym shorts. I dive in Moalboal Cebu. With shortie and jacket I was 5 kg in salt water. Dropping the 2.5 mm shorty allowed me to drop 1 kg. Switching to PBW allowed me to drop 2 more...

I am not thinking about an app that will analyze a dive, but one that will show N2 loading by tissue compartments for a defined dive profile. I am thinking of it being more of a teaching aid useful for intro level deco courses. Think of the tissue loading graph in the bottom row of a Perdix...

Where are you in the Philippines? I live in Moalboal, Cebu and am looking for a tech dive buddy. My LDS provides support for tech dives, but as the only regular who tech dives, I do not get as many deep dives as I would like as the shop naturally caters more to rec divers which are the majority...

I have an idea for either an app or an Excel spreadsheet to be used in Tech training. What I would like to do is create, a spreadsheet at first, perhaps an app later, that would allow you to enter a dive profile, and then step through it minute by minute of your dive showing the N2...

We always use "knife hands" to indicate direction. Hand open, all fingers pointing in the direction of travel. Pointing with a single finger is used to indicate something of interest, as in "look at the shark"