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The biggest issue you will run into is the length of the tank, if your a tall person, like me I'm 6' 4" a LP tank will be nicely balanced and you won't really notice how long the tank is, but if your shorter it will feel like you are knocking your head, and have a tailer because the LP tanks are...

My computer only credits a safety stop at 20-15ft range so the simple answer to your question is no most computers won't, also most tables won't either, I believe the Naui tables have built in 3 minute safty stop at 15ft that shortens the surface intervals. The newer guideline of the stops at...

I missed this question first time through your thread, anyway Not really sure when they came into vogue, they've always been a part of my diving, but the purpose is to allow the deep tissue gas to escape more efficently. Rember Boyels law (I think) the most dramatic expantion of gas occurs in...

A semi-dry genrally will run about 50-100 bucks more than a standard wetsuit of the same thickness and is genrally hundreds of dollars less than a dry suit shell. I'm not sure what your describing about your shoulder But most semi-dry wetsuits are the skintight jump suit style so it proably...

Welcome aboard, sounds like your not to far out of date really. I mean basicly we are still just carbinating ourselves then slowly uncarbinating ourselves. Seems Like your on the right track for keeping your gear in proper and safe condition. You should consider diving with an redunent...

What your describing is basicly you let yourself get to cold, and you did the right thing, by calling the dive. Farmer Johns are very constrive style of wetsuits and most people feel uncomfortable wearing them. But they are extremly warm, its a trade off. also there are alot of difrent types of...

You know what your wound reminds me of a venomus reaction, the damage and symtoms are similar to what you might see with a Brown recluse spider bite. With someone who had venom senitivity other than your not having any pain. I would bet the proper treatment would be the same as they use to treat...

I'm glad this diver is Ok. He must have come up very fast not hard to believe if a boat was draggin him, but you have to rember your gas laws from your OW class with out the proper amount of time to allow the gas to escape from your tissue it will expand where it is, to about twice its size...

I've never been fond of surface marker buoys just because of this type of incendents because boater's that know what the dive flags meen will stay clear of dive boats and the dive area anyway and the one's that don't know now have something they can snag you with. And some boaters just don't...

I don't have any dificulty believing you at all, I'm a big guy and without any scuba gear on I sink like a rock but once I put on a 7mm full wetsuit I require about 30lbs of lead to sink, and I get funny looks when I ask for that much lead but its what I need to sink. With a traditional BC and...

Thats sounds about right you want it tight enough that it won't come loose but that your not destroying your O-rings. If you over tighten you'll destroy the o-ring and they hose will leak. But you want it tight enough that it won't come loose. Use a small Wrench when you do it will help to...

I've lost 30lbs since I started diving again, and while theory would have me using less weight to mantain my bounacy, the actual change in my weight belt has been negligiable. I was 296 in may and now am down to 266, :D but my weight belt is only a pound lighter. I've had more succes in...

The cat would equalize passively as long as didn't have an ear infection, because it looks like the dive helmet actually doing helmet diving and as I understand it equalization is very easy because the head is surrounded by air not water.

Hmm I wonder how long it would take for a cat to get bent :D does it need its own special dive tables?

People forget that its actually the first atmospher of peasure thats hardest on you're ears when your diving, because your compressing the largest volume of gas between 0-30 feet its got the biggest squeeze even though its the shallowest part of the dive. It would probably be a good Idea to...

Hey Guys I just figured I would put up some of the photo's I took while diving the reef down in Playa Del Carmen mexico, I did 14 boat dives in four days and burned 9 roles of film. Diving in a t-shirt and shorts was a differnt experence from a 7mm wetsuit. Anyway this is me parasailing I...

My first solo dive was #5 I serously only got my OW certification so I could buy my scuba gear, I had been snorkling in the river delta, and was tired of choking on water. After I got certified I got a bunch of used gear and went to town, basicly snorkling with scuba gear :D in 15ft of water...

I think PeroneFord has pretty much nailed it in his post. The only thing I would add is often the DIR find themselves diving where many pony bottle would be useless as RAS because they aren't big enough to get back to the surface from the deepest point of the dive. So they get treated only as...

OH yeah I forgot about this thread, Yeah I totally took my gear with me, I carryed my regulators, divecomputer and masks with me, and checked my fins, and BC And everything came through great NP and it was awsome diving in Mexico with my own gear.