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I love having good customer support and dive shops willing to extend the good customer service of one company to their dealings with customers. Shining examples of this would be HOG, Shearwater, ScubaPro just to name a few. That being said, I have dealt with some absolutely ATROCIOUS customer...

If you drink more waste drinks (coffee, soda, sweet tea, diet soda, soft drinks, alcoholic beverages etc.) than you do plain water you will pee more because there is literally no hydration to be had whatsoever from any of these drinks. Whereas, if you drink water, your body absorbs this water...

Depends on the shark. Nurse sharks don't interest me that much, as they are a dime a dozen in the areas I do most of my tropical diving. Reef sharks generally aren't very sociable, and just want to be anywhere I am not, so I don't worry about them. I've had an encounter with (probably should...

DIR divers do not have a theme song, because a means of playing it using technology of any kind offers too many points of failure, and is therefore frowned upon.

In tropical waters with no wetsuit I just place 2 4lb weights into my cam band trim pockets (I require no weight with 6lb SS backplate in fresh water with no exposure protection), because I dive with a SS Backplate. Makes it much more natural to get into trim. In the event that I should dive a...

I found out on an Oriskany dive in 9 ft. seas on a 6-pack boat that I am not prone to seasickness of any sort, while the other 4 divers were feeding the fish quite regularly. For this I am most thankful, and declined to do a second dive that day due to the heightened presence of human stomach...

Surely he did not drown and stay dead for 2 days, saturating his tissues, then received resuscitation and decompression. There has to be more to this story I am missing... Was he living off of an air space? :dontknow:

Basically, the jist of what I learned in my PADI Nitrox class is how to calculate P02 with x blend at x depth Ox Tox is bad Signs of Ox Tox Planning dive profiles with Nitrox mixes All in all, the class material took 3 hours of an afternoon to complete, and I would say that- yes, it is...

Well, I'm 6' 240lbs and very broad shouldered, and probably stronger than just about anyone on a dive boat. Combine that with the fact that I dive a GUE-esque setup (minus JetFin style fins) and I have 100% confidence that if I was in this situation I could: 1. Wrestle him off me 2. Retrieve...

I could see the next great innovation in diving being better communication to/fro divers and the boat. Liquivision did something like this with their new computer, but I think the next great revolution would be a dual-chambered FFM that could let water in to one chamber to prevent fogging due to...

Been to 121' once and felt no real evidence of narcosis. Some people are more affected than others. Apparently, I'm pretty good at holding my nitrogen-liquor. I frequently dive 100+' and feel the same as at 30', and I know that I am not as affected by narcosis as many people are, because when...

I've got a Suunto Cobra AI, and it's nice enough I suppose. Its absurdly conservative with absolutely no way to change it. Very well built out of some rubberized material that is tough as nails The computer-logbook-cable-thingamajig is complete BS that I regret paying all the extra money...

Never personally tried them myself. They look really, really flimsy to me. Also, paying $220+ for some duck feet looking fins that look flimsy just isn't a great idea to me. They seem gimmicky as well, like putting your foot forward in the foot pocket more is actually going to greatly increase...

Squats. Front squats. Clean pulls. Power cleans. I've been lifting for most of my life and I'm squatting 405 lbs, so I can move myself very quickly any fin you give me, but I prefer to take diving very slow, but I'm happy to state that not many currents are a match for me :rofl3: Using a...

I'm super excited about these new HOG regs! By the way, I'm sure you've noticed by now that a lot of these reviewers review based on price point. For example, even if your Edge Regs are only $200-300, and outperform many higher-priced regs, they will call them a "good value reg", even though...

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Happens to me if I'm in an area where yoke tanks are the standard, and I have to use a yoke adapter on my HOG regs. This will make me hit my head if I tilt back 100% of the time. Most of the time I just deal with it while I need to, because I don't look up when doing any kind of entry, and in...

I'm currently wearing Seawing Gorillas on my all Hogarthian/ DIR setup, which I suppose is highly unacceptable and grounds for shunning from that community. Just kidding guys. But anyways, they are actually very similar in propulsion characteristics to my JetFins, however, they are a fair...

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Recently ive started to grow very tired of my Suunto Cobra AI computer console. Nothing inherently wrong with it, but the console itself is extremely long and has no good attachment points to keep it from dangling, which really messes up my minimalistic groove. I've never really been one for...