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I just built a shed to store dive gear and everything else that would normally go in a garage except I don't have a garage. I want to build a stand so I can walk the doubles from my vehicle and just sit down on the bench, doff them, and leave them there upright. So the stand is basically a...

We generally rig our deco and stage regs the same way, and there is nothing visually distinguishing them. Do you have dedicated deco regs that you only use with O2 or EAN50 and dedicated stage regs that you only use with your stage bottles (e.g., EAN32), and if so, how do you distinguish them...

My wife and I and another couple with whom we frequently dive-travel made our first visit to CoCo View Resort the first week in August 2023. As there are many reviews of CCV posted here, rather than try to describe the whole trip, I will focus on the things about CCV that were notable to me...

Is anyone here planning on, or considering, leaving a bequest to a charitable/non-profit organization involved in activities related to diving, ocean conservation, research, or anything else that is related to our hobby? I'm interested in finding out what organizations others might have looked...

Have there been any reports of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) in the Bay Islands?

The last I read, there has been no announcement of any plan to drop the requirement for a negative Covid test result to enter the US, though airlines have been lobbying, and other countries have been dropping such requirements. I was about to buy some more Binax Now teleproctored tests, which...

300 bar Dive Rite manifolds—well, one set says “Dive Rite” and the other looks similar and came from the same source. Age unknown, but came from some doubled 104s bought from a long-time cave diver. I have been using them, and I believe they work properly. They were serviced in March 2020. $75...

Lightly used Light Monkey 10-21 HID canister light. This was the workhorse light of cave diving for a number of years. I bought it 5-6 years ago from someone who wanted to "pay it forward," charging me just $450 for what I believe Light Monkey was still at the time selling for over $1k. I...

This was my eighth trip to Bonaire since my wife and I started visiting in 2009, but the first in which we did a boat dive. On this trip, in addition to plenty of shore dives, we did three 2-tank morning boat trips, for a total of six boat dives. I’m glad we did them, but I doubt we will do...

I have a HOG D1 (diaphragm first stage) that makes a sort of vibration. Any idea what is the likely cause? When I inhale normally on the second stage, the vibration is a few Hz (like "tat-tat-tat"), and when the LP inflator is used, the vibration frequency increases--makes sense, but what...

We, a group of 10 friends, visited Bonaire for a week in late August, 2021. This was my seventh Bonaire trip. A report from my sixth trip, in 2018, is here: Bonaire our way: a trip report. The previous trip was just my wife and me, and we planned out our days to get in a lot of diving and do...

A boat captain found a 95-year-old message in a bottle in Michigan. The internet helped track down the writer's daughter Very cool!

This thread has been split off from a side discussion in another thread. Marg, SB Senior Moderator I went to a walk-in clinic here in the US--a chain affiliated with a local hospital--after returning from Mexico with an ear infection. The nurse practitioner there prescribed some antibiotic...

I thought this was such an interesting comment by @MaxTorque in another thread that it might be worthy of a discussion on its own. I have thought about this before, but Max stated it well. Which kind of diver are you? Group 1 or Group 2? I'm definitely Group 1. I wish I had gills, etc., so...

GUE Cave 1 with Meredith Tanguay -- early December 2020, High Springs, FL The GUE Cave 1 course that my wife and I experienced was likely little different than all the other Cave 1 courses for which others have written course reports. For us, what stands out is that it took us over four years...

Looking over the parts in my HOG D1 service kit, I found this o-ring. What the heck is with the little protuberances?! I have never seen anything like that, in my other service kits or anywhere else. I only service regs about once a year, and I don't deal with o-rings in my daily life, so I...

Anyone tried the BOB bus? Maybe it's been around a while, but it's news to me. Route – BobBus

Do you proactively replace latex neck and/or wrist seals on your drysuit, or do you wait until you see a tear to replace a seal? If proactive, how many dives/hours on the seal (or years including storage) before replacing? I have a wrist ring system, so the wrists are really not the issue...

Dive Gear Express pocket shorts. TWO pairs, both size Small (they run huge—I have a 34 inch waist, and they fit me well, super-stretchy). Pristine condition. Used for four dives in freshwater. Asking $40 each, incl. shipping within continental US.

This was my wife's and my sixth Bonaire trip. Our first was our honeymoon in 2009, when shore diving was new to us. We have been returning to Bonaire every couple of years or so as part of a small group of 6-8, and this trip was the first time since our honeymoon that my wife and I have been...