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Sure. All the time. Places like DiveTech in the Caymans are happy to rent you tanks almost a decade out of hydro. What do they care? There are no scuba cops on the island.

No, I don't. I'm afraid I still do not see how you were "forced" to dive with this buddy. No one forced you in any way. Apparently you called ahead to find a charter boat and stated you will be diving solo. The charter told you you must have a buddy on all dives off their boat and...

No. There are a lot of divers who let their VIP slide with any tank. It being a "pony" has little to do with it. Stickers are stickers. Tanks are tanks.

If you "don't care", why would you agree to descend with a person you were "forced" to buddy with? (also, how were you forced under the water with this individual? And who did the "forcing"?) If you accepted the commonly understood relationship found in diving with another individual...

What is it specifically that you are referring to as a "regulator necklace"? These days people use that term to indicate a necklace holding the "octo" around the divers mouth. But that would not have been likely in the early 1960's.

The dives to new potential wreck sites were via boat. Essentially what you need is an entire boat of people willing to risk their first dive of the day on what could end up being anything from a Russian submarine (unlikely) to a pile of rocks (much more likely). The group decides on what...

I would suggest not disconnecting the inflator because it has nothing to do with venting air from the BC.

It is quite rare for me to dive with another person.

If you were negative you would have sunk to the bottom. If you were positive you probably would have drown before you finally floated to the surface.

No need to rush into anything now. The best answer to nearly any scuba related question is "just ask your instructor". See how he/she wants you equipped for the course. Everything in due time.

"Wreck diving" means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. If you are taking about swimming around the outside of an artificial reef (a deliberately sunk wreck) in warm, clear water you will not need much more than you probably already have. I would say a pony is not of much...

You can certainly put people on ignore but some of the more annoying trolls just change their username when they say enough dumb things that it’s common knowledge to pay them no attention. It then becomes a game of "Whack-A-Mole" to keep shutting the new names down. Sometimes it's easiest...

The truth is for just a bit more than that you could learn to VIP your own tanks. But it is still a pain to do so.

I use both and without thinking much between the two. It's become more if a "which is closer to the front of the garage" issue when packing for a trip.

It is certainly not worth anyone's life. But no dive site is. All wrecks are just a "pile of junk". Yes, the Doria is not what it once was. The wreck has broken down greatly and the treasures to be found there are becoming harder to find. (not that a bunch of China is "treasure" but you...

One foot shallower than you can free ascend with a single lung full of air.

The only way you could have witnessed this would be by diving the same quarry. So what is your excuse?

I see Zeagle still makes those awesome red weight ditch handles. You know..RED! The Color Underwater that first vanishes to the human eye. Looks good in the dive shop though.

That sounds about right. My first dive in doubles had me on the quarry's silty bottom, upside-down and laughing my ass off directly through my regulator. (LP 121's) Over the years my doubles got smaller and my ass grew bigger.

I don't know of a particular agency course that simply focuses on diving doubles. If I have a student that wants me to teach them that I am happy to do so outside the agency guideline. But it takes time. If you have four students who signed up for a class and one of them is hoping to do it...