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I, like you was introcuded to tech diving by my boyfriend. In early 2009 I was on Match.com and I got an email: "Are you rec or tec?" I answered "I'm rec" and he answered "I'm tec but I'll rec" Well, it took us about 2 months to meet and drive to Monterey for a weekend. We drove down together...

The rooms do have hangars in them. We were on the second floor above the dive shop. We had NO Problem drying our gear out on the patio. Yes - you need a finger spool for your SMB so you can raise it to the surface for your safety stop. Mark the string on the finger spool with your 15 foot...

I use doubles because I'm always in cave gear even in open water. I don't feel it's fair to not pay double to fill my tanks (32% Nitrox) because I get two or three dives out of my doubles.

I'm from Reno, Nevada. Our dive club lobbied the legeslature about 15 years ago to have the strictest dive flag law in the US made law. The requirement here is NO BOAT within 100 ft of a flag and no wake 100 to 200 ft from a flag. The diver is restricted from cutting off an inlet or harbor...

Yep AWAP - me too. Both of them. (both masks, one for each fin pocket)

I was with a group in Cozumel. As the boat left the dock the last day, one of our group stayed on the dock. I was setting up my gear at the spot next to the cabin because I could put my camera in a safe place. So I heard someone yell - stand up and wave, so I did, falling into the stairwell...

If it's dive dive dive you want, try one of the resorts on East End. Google it or Bing it to find places. We went to Cayman diving lodge a long time ago but a hurricaine wiped it out. They built nice condo's in the place but I think some of them are for rent. Coz is drift diving, Cayman is...

I dive my twin HP100's with a steel plate with a 5 mil suit. I am a little negative on the surface and I did have a valve fail at depth. I had no problem swimming the whole thing up from 70'. I carry no ditchable weight. Maybe that's because I'm female and have a lot more that floats. I...

You might want to add a BP/W to that list. The cost is reasonable and I like having all that bulk on my back. There's lots of information on-line or at your LDS on how to set it up. I'm saying this because I'd been diving for years and my second jacket style B/C bit the dust. I let a fast...

By the way, the Conception is not a cattle boat. It's a fully functioning live-a-board capable of multiple day trips.

Good pictures need to be lit from below too. I'd find a way to take the flash. You will miss it when you are there. Sorry I didn't answer the original question. The DC500 I own has a ring that just slips around the base of the lense.

You could make a "lens halyard" for your wide angle and macro lenses. Just get the wire ties that have a loop on the side, right before the "eye" that you put the other end of the wire tie into. Wrap that around the base of the lens, loop out. Then connect that loop with cave line or some...

Oh I panicked. I'd been diving for about 20 years and in warm water, had been complimented about my ease underwater. So I booked a trip to Pt. Hardy. 1st problem, the exaust port for my drysuit leaked horribly. I found out later that the rubber gasket in the valve had folded over. So I...

I had a like encounter. Back before Cave Diving took the camera out of my hands, I was paired up with a fellow from Manchester, UK. On the second day he was finding things for me to photograph. It was wonderful to find 4 Hermacinda Nuedibranch's to fit into one macro shot. Yep - I emailed...

In Nevada there's a soda factory located by the old coast of Soda Lake. When they flooded the Newland's reclamation project in the 40's, the water level in the area came up overnight. The old soda factory is now at about 40 feet. The thermocline is at about 32. Pictures at sodalake The...

I wouldn't rent my reg. I don't want to trust my life to anyone else. That goes for the BC or BP/W. I made the mistake of renting my gear when mine was held up by the airline. NEVER AGAIN.

I dived with NO card one time. We went to Monterey and I was a little nervous diving with someone I just met. I forgot my cert cards. So my buddy showed his instructor card, probably the only time he's showed it since that day over 2 years ago. I got to dive as his student. But since I...

FYI: I live in Reno, NV and work in Carson City, NV. Here's what I've pieced together about this tragedy: The two young men were best friends, 16 and 17. I think they were in Monterey for their 5th dive for O/W on Friday. The diving on Saturday was post O/W cert. The store that booked...

Back when I ab dived, I could go to about 50 feet, after I relaxed. Most of the diving was about 35 feet, even relaxed, it takes a lot to get the iron under one of those before it clamps down.

I used to be a recreational diver. I say that to mean I jumped in the water with minimal training (AOW) and had fun for 20 years. I did a lot of boat diving and that included a glass of wine or 2 with dinner. Now I've turned Teck. Now I know what various gasses do to your body (Advanced...