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I have twin 300bar 7s and I use an Apeks WTX3 (32lbs) wing with them, no problems. I did try them with a 40lb wing but found that the wing was too wide and tended to wrap around the tanks. It would have been ok with a wide manifold, but mine is a narrow one and it was cheaper and easier to...

We could fit 8 divers on that RIB, as long as they were really good friends ;)

$349 is ~£210, so the price isn't far out. And I got them from my LDS so didn't need to pay postage and import duties from the US, which could easily add £100 to the price. I agree with you about availability though. Apeks are probably the most common reg used in the UK, a combination of...

The pony is not included in the gas planning, it's there to get get you out of trouble if the **** hits the fan. We commonly use small 3ltr pony tanks which should be enough to get to the surface from 30m, but a stressed diver could easily empty it long before that. This would mean another reg...

You can still get the ATX40 and DS4. I bought two in January for £150 each. All the reg you will ever need.

That was my thinking too. Pony is an acronym, Piss Off Not Yours :) I used a normal rec rig with an octo in the triangle, and my black pony reg bungeed under my chin. If another diver asked for gas then I would give them my octo. If they just took a reg it was likely to be the octo, in...

We sold one of our club RIBs a couple of years ago, we asked £6k and got it with no haggling which leads me to think it was cheap. We still have another two, a 6m Tornado with a 150hp Honda outboard, and a 5m Tornado with a 115hp outboard. They don't get used nearly as much as they should

I wouldn't use silicon grease anywhere near my regs, but then I occasionally use nitrox with high O2 content. I use your alternative method for my assorted Apeks regs

XTX has user changeable exhaust tees (narrow/wide), ability to feed hose from left and right, different faceplate, £50 extra. I have an ATX200/ATX50 and FSR for singles and a TX50/ATX50 on DSTs with 5th port conversion for twins. Also have a couple of ATX40/DS4s for stage regs. I'm a bit of...

You'd think that if they see a lot of UK divers they would be familiar with the 3rd largest UK agency, wouldn't you? :)

The Egress is the only Apeks reg I wouldn't have on my kit, and I wouldn't be too happy if I had to use one in an emergency. Better than nothing, but I would have got an XTX40 octo. I use a mixture of TX/ATX 40/50/200 for all my diving, UK and warm water.

I have a PADI DM card, so I don't have problems getting my card recognised. I am also a member of an SAA club, a UK based agency. Several members of the club have reported that foreign dive centres have failed to recognise their qualifications and refused to let them dive - France and Egypt...

As a DM I got paid for guiding dives in Egypt - €12 per dive, usually 2 dives per day. In the UK I assisted with classes with no pay or tips (though I rarely bought a beer in the bar afterwards). I even paid my own entry fee to inland sites sometimes.

:shocked2: I did a 2 dive trip from Eyemouth yesterday, £40 (~$60). We don't tip charter boat skippers or crew in the UK.

That should be easy enough - we land at 13.40 on a Sunday and fly out at 15.30 the following Sunday. Thanks for all the advice.

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My wife and I have just booked a week in Playacar, we're flying out on 14th Sept. Although we are both divers we're not planning on spending the whole week diving, just a couple of days She's not interested in diving cenotes so it's going to be sea dives. We have no plans to dive Cozumel...

I take a DSMB and a reel on all my UK sea dives, along with a backup DSMB and a spool. My buddy takes a DSMB & reel too, and one or the other of us will deploy one as we leave the bottom. Unless we come back up the shotline. On warm water/tropical dives I take a DSMB and spool if we are...

No octopus and bungeed pony sounds like a bad idea to me. If your buddy has an OOG which reg do you give him? The pony is on a bungee round your neck so not acessible, the primary is on a standard 24" hose which keeps you uncomfortably close. I don't use a pony these days, but when I did I...

I use similar regs on all my cylinders, but different mouthpieces - Comfobite on my primary regs and a standard mouthpiece on everything else so I know as soon as I put the reg in my mouth if it's the right one or not. If you want to keep the same mouthpiece then an elastic band in a figure 8...