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I think you will find that there are a lot of people who do this. Whether it will help your equalization issues or not is something you just have to...
If you didn't pressurize the reg, it's likely that no water got into the HP hose. The trick is to take the hose off and pressurize the reg, and blow...
In my experience, divers who run out of air are either: a) distracted, b) inactive divers who are inattentive to their gauges, or c) are oblivious to...
Hubby and I go to Walt Disney World every year. A couple of years ago, we saw divers at Epcot in The Seas paviliion. I looked into it and found out that they weren't just employees, but certified divers could do this tour. The one thing that made me hestitate was the multiple large sharks in the tank. Growing up in eastern NC, I had heard so many bad things about sharks and they really scared me.
SO, after we were certified this summer, I called up and signed us both up for the tour.
This was an intense 3 week period where my hubby and I took the OW certification course and completed our 4 dives. I have been sick, exhausted, frustrated, thrilled, proud, bruised physically and emtionally, panicked, in complete awe and felt like I was flying. Would I do it again? In a heart beat.
Why you may ask?
I was very lucky that my first experience with scuba happened in Negril with an AMAZING instructor who was calm and patient and wonderful. We called him