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Is there a preferred type or brand of dive flag to tow along on a shore dive? I'm planning to use my 100' reel that I normally carry for a surface marker.

Recommend a back up light? I dive a backplate and wing. I keep 2 C-cell backup lights strapped to the chest harness under my arms (hogarthian style). My halcyon lights still work but are dim halogen and take alkaline batteries. What's a good LED light of a similar size that I can use as a...

I want to remove my 6' long hose on the primary and go with something much shorter for the open water rec diving I'm going to be doing in the keys and Miami area. My backup is on a 30". What's the perfect length for the primary? I still plan to donate it to an out of air diver, but I don't...

I've been out of diving for 6 years (lived in washington d.c.), but now I'm back in Fort Lauderdale. It looks like the DIR forum is dead. Are we calling the gear rigging "hogarthian"? What did I miss?

My gear has been sitting for a 6 years and it's time to get my Apeks regs rebuilt and my tanks hydro'd. Can anyone recommend a good shop in Fort Lauderdale or Miami? I'm in Davie, about 30 mins west of Hollywood Beach.

I just moved to pembroke pines from 6 years in washington D.C. It's time to dust off my scuba gear and get my apeks reg's serviced, halcyon bladder inspected, tanks hydro'd, and buy a new mask and snorkel and get back to diving! I'm looking for shop recommendations please.

My old MR11 dive rite HID is beyond repair. Dive Rite is willing to give me a nice price break on a new LED LUX or H1000 light. Or should I look at something else? I'm a day recreational diver with the occasional night dive. No caving. I'm leaning towards the LED because it's more...

Well I killed my light today. In my rush to get the gear on in a rocking inflatable boat on the ocean, I missed one of the clips for the battery canister. Light actually stayed on the whole dive too. Once back in the boat I noticed water in the light head, then I checked the battery and found...

I bought my HID light back in 2004. I posted a question about shortening the cord in the dive rite area of the site, but after doing some searches on this forum from back in the day- turns out I bought the light from www.stealthdive.com that is no longer there. It's an MR11 dive rite head...

Can you convert my 10W MR11 light head to LED? What's the cost and turnaround time? Can the new LED light head be purchased to go with my slimline canister and 4500MAH battery?

Can I shorten my diverite cord? How do I do it? http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/4188171-post9.html

I have a 10w HID primary light (Diverite head, unknown derlin canister/battery) that has a long cord. With the canister on my right hip, and the cord going to the light in my left hand, there's quite a bit hanging down. If I take a wrap of cord around my forearm, it keeps it up and out of the...

I'm looking at getting a set of XTX regs- 1st stage and 2, matching second stages. I'm dumbfounded by the website when trying to compare the different models. What's the difference as you move from 40-50-100-200? I'm thinking the "Status" models with LCD screens are gimmicky and very un-DIR...

I was stationed at K-bay and lived in Kailua 2000-2003. I'll be back in December, renting a nice house on the bay in Kaneohe this time. I have a 11' zodiac with a 20HP that I plan on exploring around the bay with. Any decent diving spots? The closest I've dove in the area was off the base on...

I have a Suunto Vytec that works just fine. But I'm shopping for a second computer so I can pass the Vytec on to my dive partner. I'm done with Suunto- serial interface? Had to buy a USB cable. They still don't support MAC. Their dive software bascially sucks to use. So, what's the...

I'm buying all new gear as I'm going the DIR route. I'm going to buy a set of Apeks regs. What's the best setup for an open water diver who will eventually take the GUE tech course and start tech diving in a year or two? I'm thinking about a pair of first/second stages and using the one first...