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My first nitrox course was with SSI. Since then I've taken extended range training with TDI and Naui and to be honest ... I don't know if one is better than the other. I was very fortunate to have an excellent instructor for my most recent courses and believe I would have been trained properly...

Because I've recently stepped into the world of tech diving, I have found this to be (another) excellent thread of information. I've only made about 40 deco dives in the last 4 months and usually with 5 or 6 others (experienced) on the same trip. Many times the first diver is coming out of the...

Consider what you'll be required to do when diving with doubles. It's very important to be able to reach and turn your valves for your tanks or manifold. My Bare suit which I love, requires me to almost stand on my head to get the job done. For my particular suit the material under the arms...

Or ... making an overhead environment more reachable to open water divers who have limited training with what might seem to be .... a straight forward dive.

I had over 500 dives when I finally decided to take up Tech / wreck diving. Thought it would be a piece of cake. I was wrong .... the gear was one heck of a burden to get used to, but after 40 or so dives and configuring everything just the way I wanted it ... I was in the world I wanted to be...

I apologize .... I was wrong about Elizabeth Delamont (Lizzie) still being alive. Kevin was correct in his book, and if I had not been so eager to believe the story I was getting from my wife .... I probably could have easlily prevented myself having this egg on my face. So because my wife will...

I read Kevin McMurray's book "Dark Descent" this past summer and have been doing my own research (basic stuff) on the boat and the stories surrounding that time in history with focus on the dives. In Kevin's book pg. 152 he writes: "Grace Hanagan, who had married and become Grace Martyn, died...

I believe we've evolved in diving because of boundries crossed ... as with anything we have the desire to explore. But in the diving world we also need to have full knowledge of our individual limitations regardless of what we have been taught or think we know. I enjoy diving with a buddy...