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Yes I know this is an older thread, but I wanted to mention that I have a multi-cache in Kingston Ontario whose first stage is underwater... Either scuba dive using underwater nav skills, or snorkel it (harder but still possible) Look up my profile on geocaching.com...same user name... The...

I both freedive and scuba dive. As far as the combination goes, I have a person rule to never freedive AFTER scuba*, but freediving BEFORE is just fine! My reasoning for this is simple: During scuba diving, breathing compressed air, my body takes on a nitrogen load. This load will take a...

I have a set of double 72s, two AL80s, a steel LP 80, and an AL30 rigged as a stage.

Forgive me for straying just slightly off topic... your quote (above) reminded me of something. First, a touch of background: I was certified in '03, did my first 100 dives in 8 months, logged my 150th a little after a year from my cert date. Then my diving rate started to decline until I was...

LOL He can ask me and I'd be pleased to make an overview, but IMHO that discussion deserves a separate thread.

Best find ever: an older-style DRYSUIT, full uncrushed 5mm neoprene with working valves, for $99 at a Value Village. I snapped it up (intending to cut off the feet and use it as a wetsuit - I didn't own my first wetsuit yet!) but when I took it to my OW instructor for his opinion, he said he...

I know this thread is a bit older but I thought I'd chime in. I solo dive. FWIW, I dive a Hog rig either with a single tank and slung 30, or double manifolded 72s.

I had that happen. What prompted me towards getting a backplate and wing was after a dive when my buddies said, "Gee, FreeFloat, we could see clear across your back through the armholes of your BC" LOL I guess I was "dangling" from it.

Mine too. Some people I later talked to slammed my instructor for "going against standards" but I feel I became far more confident from that training than I might have been otherwise.

Don't forget that things may be a bit darker at 100', regardless of the clarity of the water.

Yeah, don't ask for water to put down your wetsuit :)

For me, it's a combination of time, location, and to some extent finances. I used to live in Kingston, Ontario. I could drive for an hour and do wreck dives from shore, or if I felt like falling off a boat I could be aboard one in half that time. I worked 8-4 daily and had my weekends to...

I-Smash-It-Diver I was there this weekend when they said they were replacing them. Subsequent reports indicate the mystery line bandit is removing them again. if you want the lines there why the flip-flopping about whether or not you want divers "littering" the underwater site?

I was out there this weekend as well playing tour guide for three divers unfamiliar with the area, and had nearly forgotten about the whole line-cutting fiasco. I wish there was something we could do about this culprit! Wonder if it's JurrasicDiver himself? After all, he keeps taunting...

Mine doesn't ask for "instructor, buddy, DM" but I sign it myself too. That way at least, there's no "blank spots" to catch the eye of anyone suspicious who might be thumbing through my logbook :D

Bah humbug :D. OK how about a more serious answer then. - Buddies get narced at depth and pull stoopid stunts. - Buddies nod and agree to the dive plan on the surface, then utterly forget/ignore it as soon as the surface closes over their heads. - Buddies spontaneously decide that...

ROFL!!! Ok how about this: You have a great-looking/sexy dive buddy, and you're so distracted by him/her that they have to pretty much remind you of everything during the dive.... ascend, descend, go over here, remember to vent your BC, etc..... ;)

What do you mean by DL? My NAUI OW and AOW cards have numbers on them, but I asked my instructor and it seems that here in Canada at least, only the instructor's number appear on the card. And we don't use our social insurance numbers at all.

Yep.

Like Jim (quoted above), I just logged into Sb after a long hiatus to find out this about Kimber. Fortunately I caught up to th end of the thread (as of this point) and am tremendously relieved to see that things seem to be looking up. Get well soon Kimber!! You're a fighter, this I know...