Where has DIN been required?

[ColinT3]

I've dived Europe, Turkey, Indonesia, Thailand, Egypt - the cylinders have always been Pro valves and I don't recall seeing anyone with yoke 1st stages. My 5 regs are all DIN.

 

[Gone for diving]

Get din reg and a yoke to din adapter.

It's a bit closer to you head, but i never had a problem...

 

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

I have no idea where that would be. Check my profile to see where I have dived. For recreational diving, yoke has been the norm everywhere I have gone.

I have never dived in Europe.

Europe and Middle East But I suspect most shops in destinations like Malta or Egypt would have an insert to accommodate yoke. But a vast majority divers will be using DIN.

Oh you might even encounter an oddity in the form of M26 instead of M25 for nitrox/oxygen in special places.

 

[rongoodman]

I do believe I'll be going with yolk.

Sunnyside. over easy, or scrambled?

 

[Brett Hatch]

If you go with DIN, a DIN-to-yoke converter is about $25. If you go with yoke, a yoke-to-DIN converter is closer to $100. So I figured DIN made more sense on those grounds, and went with DIN regs and bought the DIN-to-yoke converter. I always bring the converter, as well as hex keys (Allen wrenches) in a few sizes for removing Pro valve plugs. All of the tanks I own have Pro valves with removable plugs, so I can easily lend them to folks with yoke regs. This setup works well for me.

However, I have never dived in a place where I was glad to have DIN regs, and I have dived in many places where it was unhelpful. All of my diving is in the US mainland, Hawaii, and the Caribbean, where yoke is much more common. If I dived often in a place where DIN was much more common, I would recommend it. But if I could do all it over, I think I'd have been better off going with yoke. Only a little bit better off though, because at the end of the day, using the converter is really not a big deal.

 

[tursiops]

If you go with DIN, a DIN-to-yoke converter is about $25. If you go with yoke, a yoke-to-DIN converter is closer to $100. So I figured DIN made more sense on those grounds, and went with DIN regs and bought the DIN-to-yoke converter. I always bring the converter, as well as hex keys (Allen wrenches) in a few sizes for removing Pro valve plugs. All of the tanks I own have Pro valves with removable plugs, so I can easily lend them to folks with yoke regs. This setup works well for me.

However, I have never dived in a place where I was glad to have DIN regs, and I have dived in many places where it was unhelpful. All of my diving is in the US mainland, Hawaii, and the Caribbean, where yoke is much more common. If I dived often in a place where DIN was much more common, I would recommend it. But if I could do all it over, I think I'd have been better off going with yoke. Only a little bit better off though, because at the end of the day, using the converter is really not a big deal.

Until you get to a place that rarely removes the "doughnut" converter, and then it is stuck in and you can't use your DIN reg.

 

[scubadada]

When my son and I went to Cozumel in 2006, I believe Aldora's HP steel tanks only took DIN. I may be remembering this incorrectly. Other than that, I have never been to a land or liveaboard operator that has not taken yoke regs, of course, most take DIN also. Personally, I dislike using a yoke adaptor.

I dived a DIN regulator for many years and still have it, use it on my pony. I use a yoke regulator these days. I rent my tanks everywhere I go.