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Thanks. Very generous offer! Let me think about it and get back to you. I removed and replaced the shoulder dump assembly when it wasn't dumping. I just nudged some parts and then it worked (although the pull string is way too short -- I can't reach it -- probably something I can also fix). I...

I'm scared to do any installation myself. Good to have the link to the inflator so Ic an tell if they're gouging me on the replacement parts.

The first thing I did was google the LDS in my area. THat wasn't hard. I guess my question was whether there some are better than others. Inc ase it matters here are the brands: 2 regulators, both Scubapro 1 Scubapro BCD 1 Cressi BCD 1 OMS wing The inflators failed open on the Cressi BCD and...

Fellow mid Atlantic divers, I don’t trust my own repair skills and I had two bc inflators fail on my last dive (thankfully caught during pre dive safety check). So I have a bunch of gear to be serviced: 2 regs (total of 4 second stages) and three bcd/wings. Any recommendations where to...

Thanks. I ended up just buying a new belt. I'll give or sell the old one to someone with a narrower waist.

I was on a boat and must have set up next to a small woman who I later learned took my weight belt and I took hers. They were identical belts that have a single zipper that runs along several pockets that hold lead shot weights. I always liked it, but she was smaller and her belt doesn't fit me...

OP here. Well, I'm back from the trip. I was actually fine... once we made it to Mexico. We were the last flight out of St. Louis before everything was cancelled. Just barely made it before the apocalypse descended on the midwest. Felt like the millenium falcon shooting off the Death Start just...

Winter storm Elliott, described in the media as a possible "bomb cyclone" is forecasted to bring severe temperatures and wind to much of the U.S. starting Wednesday night. Even Florida may get freezing temperatures and high winds. Here is an article (in Spanish) with local forecast: Clima en...

Just got back from a week at Beaches Negril. Diving was included but we only did 4 dives all week because there just wasn't much to see and it wasn't worth time away from my non-diving family. Dive op was pretty bad since they are not working for tips (resort policy). I tipped anyway, but had...

I'm trying to get in a dive day at the quarry with my son next weekend but I am on a training schedule for an upcoming triathlon. I've already taken too many days off and don't want to give up valuable weekend days, so I'm thinking I may take a long surface interval and sneak in a workout before...

Thanks for sharing this info. I have a backplate and wing but the wing is for doubles and I only dive single tanks so I'm looking for someone in the opposite situation (has singles wing looking to move up to doubles) to trade.

Unbaleenvable!

' I wouldn't say attacked. Sounds like a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or diving in the midst of a bunch of whale food during whale season. I've gone on P-town whale-watching tours and the humpbacks are fairly predictable. They find an upwelling where the sand eels and...

Man swallowed by whale off the coast of Cape Cod while lobster diving Amazing story. Fortunately the whale ejected the diver and he was not badly hurt. Spending half a minute inside a whale's mouth is quite a story to tell.

I'm sure "world class eco-resort" is aspirational but it will be game-changing for DC-area divers and I like that the planners are thinking big. I certainly found the ecology of Juturna distinct from others I've dived in the area (Millbrook, Phoenix, Guppy Gulch, and Dutch Springs) but don't...

By the way, thanks so much @doctormike for your helpful and thoughtful comments here. I asked DAN for some local referrals and they gave me two names, one an ENT who advertises himself as primarily a plastic surgeon, the other a hyperbaric/emergency medicine specialist. I might try to see the...

FWIW, I don't know if it was the tympanogram, but the audiologist did say that she didn't want to do "the test that blows something into my ear" on the first exam because she worried that it could damage the ear drum (or something like that, I don't remember exactly), whereas for the followup...

I was confused by this. Is middle ear barotrauma, which was my diagnosis, significant or not? Or should I infer that you are saying you are convinced there was inner ear injury involved? The examining doctor did not say that, but he did say something about possible cochlear nerve injury, so...

Does this just mean that I should dive extra-conservatively, like be ready to turn any dive where I can't equalize easily? I'm trying to understand if I am at greater risk of injury, or if I am at greater risk of permanent hearing loss *if* I am injured. Relatedly, I'm trying to understand if...

This was very helpful! From what I can tell this was a middle ear barotrauma with effusion, no eardrum rupture. I did have some sensorineural and conductive hearing loss. No other symptoms of inner ear injury though. I was treated with steroids. Here is the audiologist report on 6/27 and then...