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I rarely take a camera, but it generally looks like I've been dipped in aquaseal and rolled around in a camera shop whenever I get in the water with my girlfriend, who's got a camera 99.9% of the time, as well as affixing me with strobes, carrying strobes, carrying the tripod; as well as the...

Once you become proficient with the doubles, switching between won't be that much of an issue. HP-120 doubles, however, are fairly bulky and awkward tanks... I would be sure to be very familiar with the tank before you think about doubling them up. 80s are very nice simple light doubles. You...

Oh you're doing just a fine job of communicating. I'm doing a horrible job of reading comprehension ;)

FWIW, if it's an equipment failure or mistake, is there really nothing to be learned by understanding what happened? Are we supposed to just accept that the mistake or equipment failure is a risk being taken, and there's no way to prevent it? I do understand that discussing accidents, their...

Great idea Dennis, and great report. You're not going to help me fight the draw down there! We'll be popping you a note sometime in the future to work out a visit.

There's a few advantages to a one piece... it's less buoyant at the surface, it's less restrictive, and it's not as beastly hot in the summer months. However it's going to be colder in the log run, and get colder over time due to getting thinner as well as your dives getting longer. I was...

Very cool Rick. It's nice to see/hear that it's returning; and it looks like you guys are getting the support from club members that's needed to pull it off. If you're interested in the power point slides that I used to introduce and fill between speakers, pop me a PM and I'll email what I...

The biggest question is 'what are you logging your dives for'. Yea, there's the prerequisite number of dives for certifications to log for, there's also some agencies that require a certain number of dives over a certain amount of time in order to renew your card. But those, IMHO, aren't...

Y'all make it tough to be fashionably late, but it was good to get a chance to say hi to the diehards!

I loved it over there. Thank for that tip about the line going vertical. Much more exploration to do in that area now.

I agree with everything you've written, with the exception of this. While I agree with this as a blanket general statement when speaking to an unknown audience, I don't agree in a realistic sense. We all went through timed line drills in cavern. We all know that it took us far longer than...

You've not been left yet? Damn, your buddies must like you more ;)

I think we're pretty much saying the same thing, but the statement is intrinsically obvious. The diver that uses gas faster (be it breathing harder, leaky inflator, higher rate of inflation gas, whatever) will hit their turn pressure first. I inadvertently assumed you were making a statement...

Actually this is ideally incorrect if the gas plan is calculated accurately. The volume is based on 1/3 of the smallest tank(s) and that volume is passed through the team. So, for example, if you've got a set of 80s pumped to 3300 (for a practical example), you're looking at 56.76cuft for 1100...

too funny. I put up a similar pic on my myspace page from my last trip to NC. Can you find the cave diver in this pic

Very true. I have to explain that to all my new buddies. "When we come up the chimney and into the cavern area, don't freak when I turn my light out". I turn out my light and spend some time drifting that last couple hundred feet while I move bottles around in prep for deco.

To take a quote from my old skiing book. "We don't ski on the tops".

Vortex and Morrison are about 60 miles out of Destin. Those would be the closest. 100ish to Jackson Blue. Madison is about 230 miles from Destin.

Hole in the Wall was my long time favorite. If you can get in there when the vis is decent (which has been rare the last couple years) it's truly breathtaking... Watch the ceiling as you traverse each room, it's like walking through a Victorian mansion. Due to those vis concerns, Madison...