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You should talk to your NAUI instructor. He/she is supposed to tell you "yes" and to plan the course around your specific needs and wants, in addition to certain core requirements of the AOW course. Nitrox is definitely an available addition to AOW.

5mm is too thin, it won't work. You would walk in, and then turn around and walk right out again. Your 5mm suit will only work for dive travel to cooler water locations (Hawaii or Florida in winter, etc). If that is what you plan to do, then keep it. Otherwise selling it before you leave...

I normally think of heart attack triggers as being due to sudden exertion. But you are probably right, it can happen anytime as well.

Go diving if you live in the garlic capitol of the world and a drive to Monterey is no big deal to you. Anything short of a hurricane is a go diving weekend for you. I do not care to argue with you.

Under 25, probably cannot yet afford scuba gear. 25 to 60, probably in your scuba diving prime years, with money to burn.

I dont take credit for nor apologize for the NOAA forecasts. An if-fy weekend might be good and it might not be good. Not worth it to me to drive 3 hours to Monterey or 2 hours to Sonoma to find out. Glad you had a good Saturday of diving. :)

He said "or" Same issue as with statutory law. :)

A person is much more likely to get shot by a handgun in America than by a 30-06. I would re-run the test.

I took those reflective patches off my black drysuit. Not because I am worried about Joe Redneck and his 30-06 but because I am more worried about Joe Landlord and his sharp teeth. And you see more sea life if you are a motionless black hole in the water without reflective patches.

You must be talking about neoprene drysuits as being too hot on dry land in the sun in the summer. Because with trilam shell drysuits all you need to do is unzip it and wear it folded down, and unzip your thermals, and you will be plenty cool before you go into the water. A hat to keep the sun...

Lets think about this: We want to sink the carrier. The carrier is in Florida. If a hurricane comes it might sink the carrier. We need to move the carrier so that a hurricane wont sink it. ???

What are the chances that your tank would ever get shot with a 30-06 round? :)

My definition of a cyber diver is someone who sells all their scuba gear and then still posts. How much more cyber could you get? This person knows who I am talking about. :)

Hard to imagine a heart attack at a pool, but then again the exertion of handling tanks, even at a pool, is significant. I am sorry for the loss of the seasoned diving instructor. Thank you Blueboy for the update. It helps all of us to study diving incidents. Thank you again. (Note...

In Soilent Green they were eating everything that "stopped moving." That would be next. Imagine the kosher laws for that?!

As was mentioned, you definitely want to look into an air-integrated console dive computer. (There are wrist mounts as well just prohibitively expensive.) What I do instead is to plan my dive, watch my dive time, and check my SPG pressure about every 10 minutes. That is what the dive...

I doubt there is anything abnormal about eating whales. Whales are mammals just like steers and pigs are mammals. Muslims and orthodox Jews frown on pork while hindus frown on beef. Yet we eat those. Japan has a whole lot of people to feed, 4 times the population of California in a land...

You need to be careful what you think. You may think you know everything. You may think you would never make the same mistakes. You may think you never make mistakes. You may be dead wrong someday, and then we will be discussing your accident. :)

A drysuit would keep you warmest, although you would still be cold. The new single-piece 7mm "semi-dry" wetsuits that are just now coming out on the market (Scuba Diving had a recent write up on them with photos) might be viable for you, if you do not want to make the $1000+ investment in a...