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Seems that TheDiveForum.com is down and has been for a couple of weeks. Does anyone know if this is permanent? Hopefully not In Memoriam.

What heating controller options are available? Most of the controllers seem to be of the Pitkin variety which work by turning the current on and off to reduce the overall power to the heater element, e.g. 50% would be on for a while, then off for the same duration. Does anyone know of any DC...

Has anyone tried reconfiguring a Revo to fully offboard diluent? Meaning removing the diluent regulator, putting in the additional hosing and possibly changing the manifold and installing a QC6 (as it's wet-sealing) such that the offboard diluent/bailout tank would run the unit's diluent and...

Have an Atlantic flight with two checked bags included to 23kg/50lbs and cannot get a bag heavier than that but the Revo Mini plus Pelicase is 26kg/57.2lbs. According to BA/British Airways I can sod off and send it as cargo, or pay $2000 to upgrade to business. An additional 23kg/50lb bag...

A couple of times whilst scootering on my Revo I've noticed the RMS suddenly drop to 20mins on the first occasion and yesterday down to 1 minute. Both times I stopped and waited for around 20 seconds and it suddenly jumped up to over 2h. Nothing else untoward happened throughout the dive...

Interesting interview and review of a Nikon Z9 on DPReview https://www.dpreview.com/articles/9688931673/it-s-a-paradigm-shift-underwater-photographer-nicolas-remy-talks-about-shooting-with-the-nikon-z9

My Blacktip screen -- the white LED dot-matrix screen -- seems to be having problems. Last dive the screen stayed showing '3' even if I changed speeds and after the dive was over (until I removed the batteries back on land). In the garage it doesn't seem to work any longer. Anyone heard of...

When diving sidemount, a butt pouch is a valuable asset for stashing 'stuff' as there's no pockets available (or they're tight under the sidemounted cylinders). As the back is uncluttered, you're relatively free to reach back and touch or even hold your hands behind your back. Thus clipping...

Have a new drysuit which has the Apeks low profile shoulder dump fitted. I’m really not getting on with it as it seems hard to dump, certainly in comparison with my previous suit's Si-Tech dump. The good news is it appears you can swap over an Apeks dump for a Si-Tech which fits the backing...

Would be interesting to hear of people's incidents and what you learned from it.

We know that the Apple Watch Ultra is restricted to 40m/132ft as he operating system won’t record anything below that depth. Ultra v2 might fix this — in the lap of the Apple gods. The Apple Watch Ultra comes with a bottom timer appp for free. Ratio deco to the rescue— knew it would come in...

What's the recommendations for routing sidemount SPGs and HP hoses? Need to do a fair amount of sidemount diving this year in preparation for a full cave course later in the year. Am doing some kit fettling -- the sidemount regulators are being serviced and even putting some tanks in test...

Have always dived with my own tanks. For these I use a Jubilee clip (worm drive?) or a standard stage rigging kit. Call me a peasant, but I like to use standard deco/stage rigging kits with a bolt snap on the top and another boltsnap on the bottom, held in place with a Jubilee clip (think...

Have several hundred dives in Sheawater Cloud. Would like to extract the summary information so I could sling it into Excel to categorise, e.g. All dives last year what's the total time, average depth, etc. For a bonus I'd love to get the amount of time spent at decompression (e.g. for...

Only two popular rebreathers have scrubber monitors; AP Inspiration and Revo. These monitors provide excellent information about the status of the scrubber time left for the diver to make decisions based on facts rather than assumptions. Why is this? It’s not like voodoo as the scrubber...

The UK-based TheDiveForum.com is closing in a couple of weeks. Pity to see it end.

Thoughts about modifying a Revo for use with "dilout"... Flying off to a warm location where the pretty fish play in the warm water and excellent visibility; diving to air diluent depths only. Aside from the Pelicase being too heavy(!), the Revo's a great rebreather. However, renting 3...

Can full cave be done on CCR easily? Have cavern & intro to cave but on OC. Would much prefer to do full cave on CCR as that's what I'd be diving with anyway, so would be good to learn the CCR / bailout gas rules. The intention is to do some guided cave diving afterwards, mainly in Mexico, or...

Found this spooky and took a while to work out what's happening. Beautiful.

The rEvo rebreather is an excellent machine which many people dive. It's clearly different from most other rebreathers, especially the cannister ones, all a product of the excellent Paul Raemakers who designed the unit. As with any design, there's always scope for modifications, tweaks and...