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The failure to teach CO2 build-up at the advanced stage is important also. It should be highlighted and pounded in the divers head. How just a wrestle on the surface with equipment such as a mask coming off, and having to tread water vigorously for a few minutes, followed by a deep dive can...

Hi, I'm considering a BVI Tortola dive trip this summer. Any recommendations for hotel and dive operators would be appreciated! Key factors, but not in order. Awwwwway from cruise ship docks! Sandy beach, close bar and dinning access. Great reputation dive operation. No cattle boats. Nitrox...

So, with that reasoning, we should eradicate all Parrot fish, Sea horses and Hawks Bill Turtles. The damage they do to a coral reef environment in one day is worse than all divers combined in one year or more.

In all seriousness though, I believe eels have come to expect something from humans. They have been fed numerous times over the years, and when they see a human, they expect food. An easy meal. Just like the bears at Yellowstone.

"However, if you just want to "connect" with or "see what that feels like" then you aren't broadening our scientific understanding." Not true, many of us are learning that Moray Eels are devilish little bastards and can be very harmful if not treated with caution, contrary to popular belief...

I like to lick toads. Has anyone tried licking a morey...at night?:rofl3: "must be one great wetsuit" the new Henderson hyperstretch. It really stretches. I guess even the teeth stretched down. No holes . B

Thanks Richard.

Check out youtube...several eel attacks. This one is pretty sick....its not me, I promise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk6PVhYxsGI

It was a night dive. The eel just sort of appeared, free swimming within arms reach. I touched the very end of it's tail as it passed by. It must have circled around without me noticing and then attaked my leg. It then wrapped itself all around my tank, throughy legs again, heading for my face...

Have you ever been attacked by an eel? I was always under the impression that they look mean, but are relitively harmless. I guess I found out what "relitively harmless" really means. I went diving at a wonderfull Caribbean vaction locale and incountered a free swimming morey on a night dive. My...

Thanks for the notes. I guess I need to figure out if its narcosis or CO2 retention that is the problem. I do not recall high anxiety as being a narcosis affect, but spelled out under CO2 retention. I recall being a new diver, that I always had bad headaches after every dive. I learned to live...

I have started deeper diving (below 130) and I have learned that I suffer from hypercapnia. Retention of CO2. Some of my instructional books say that some people are just more prone to CO2 retention. Is there a way to find out, a test that would indicate that I have this build-up moreso than...

Thanks for the replies. I will try the brands you recommended. I have enjoyed my sartek. It has performed flawlessly. However, when I needed a replacement bulb or whatever, their CS is non existant. To me that is unacceptable. So, I do not recommend buying from them for that very reason. I am...

Any suggestions. I have been waiting for 6 months for a replacement bulb for my Sartec LED high intensity can dive light. I am more that put out. I have emailed them with no response. So, Screw them......I will concider it an $800 loss and seek service else where. Any suggestoins for superior...

I have just purchased my first set of doubles. I bought them thinking I will learn deco for extended bottom times. (not depths as much). I started out with a single steel 120 with an H valve and 30cf pony. I dive off the NC coast and eastern seaboard regularly below 100ft. The doubles will be a...

Okay , thanks. I guess if I had I dry suit, I might have known what you were talking about. Yeah, that makes complete sence, but opens up other ideas like lift bags ...etc...a larger wing is the easiest option, but I am trying to get the drag as low as possible. I'll have to do the math I guess...

Thanks for the reply. What is a DS? ( The only DS I can think of right now is my son's gameboy DS, he plays it all day long. :blinking:)Sorry, its just not comming to mind...and if it floods, how would a larger wing be helpful? If its part of the wing, and its flooding, it would only add more...

Great illistration. I figured it must have something to do with the face being more visible. It just seems odd with all the marketing and "our product must go here" that they do that on the cover. Seems like that would be a great selling point for a cool mask....btw, does anyone know where I can...

...that more times than not, for the model, the mask they choose to shoot for the cover is one of those antiquated oval masks from the 60's? what up ? what are some of your favorites? I posted this here hoping maybe some of the pros could let us in on the subject :popcorn:

Oh yeah, I ran across another rule of thumb I wanted to mention. Use the volume of your tank to match the depth of your diving. i.e. 80ft or less diving, use an 80cf tank. 100ft use 100cf tank, 120 use 120. 130 is max recreational so if you dive to the limits all the time a 130 is for you. plus...