Best scuba advice you’ve received

[CathyE]

Margaritas are too sweet and sour, they make me sick. Guess I'm missing out on that fun.

Don’t use a mix, use limes and your choice of sweeter, Works for both ‘frozen’ and ‘on the rocks’ varieties.

 

[kaylee_ann]

Don’t use a mix, use limes and your choice of sweeter, Works for both ‘frozen’ and ‘on the rocks’ varieties.

it was at a bar so i couldn't control it. i like raspberry mojitos.

 

[CathyE]

it was at a bar so i couldn't control it. i like raspberry mojitos.

Hubby makes a great mint mojito, again, no mixes. I keep Havana Club around just in case. He also makes a great mangorita! We sip them while contemplating dive trip advice.

 

[kaylee_ann]

Hubby makes a great mint mojito, again, no mixes. I keep Havana Club around just in case. He also makes a great mangorita! We sip them while contemplating dive trip advice.

what better combination than that? good drinks, dive trips.

 

[jejton]

More important than emptying your BCD at the the start of a dive is to empty your bowels before you dive. Try to sh!t before you get onto the boat, into the suit and definitely before you get into the water!

 

[kaylee_ann]

More important than emptying your BCD at the the start of a dive is to empty your bowels before you dive. Try to sh!t before you get onto the boat, into the suit and definitely before you get into the water!

Or piss. Holy crap, I remember surfacing and hauling ass to the bathroom.

 

[Tassie_Rohan]

Any sporting equipment labelled 'Pro', 'Tec' or 'Extreme' are none of these things.

 

[Alaskan Scuba Dude]

You're only as good as your last dive.

 

[Blackcrusader]

Be weighted correctly for buoyancy and trim.

You mean weighted correctly for end of dive. We have BCD's to use as so being slightly over weighted easily dealt with, being under weighted with uncontrolled ascent not good.

 

[Cthippo]

You mean weighted correctly for end of dive. We have BCD's to use as so being slightly over weighted easily dealt with, being under weighted with uncontrolled ascent not good.

I had this last week on a dive. I did a coupel of of dives that day and was trying to run a little less weight. The first dive with a steel 95 I struggled to get to the bottom, but was mostly OK afterwords. On the second one with my Steel 72 I had to really work to get down and coming up the bottom on the way back hit 10 feet and I was going for an uncontrolled ride. Lesson learned: It's better to be a little over weighted than a lot overweighted, but better to be a lot over than a little under. I can manage too much weight, I cannot manage too little.