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You need a better HUD. I have zero issue seeing my Fathom HUD, be it full daylight or pressed against the glass of my mask in a silt out. I was in a complete silt out in rocky horror and the only thing I COULD see was my HUD. If you want something jiggly on your wrist, great, but don't make...

I would see the addition of a HUD as a MAJOR safety factor. Haptic feedback, MIGHT, end up being a safety factor, but I would take the HUD over a vibration on my wrist.

Can you actually quantify why haptic feedback would be a MAJOR safety improvement?

But then how would I convey what my wife was thinking if I called it a "life machine" because that is not what she thought it was. When I started thinking CCR a few years ago is when we had a few deaths back to back on CCRs.

Time to start making money with a front loading pontoon boat to taxi divers to Devils Ear.

A different tool for a different job. If all you ever do is nail all your floor planks down, you would not need a screwdriver. If all you ever do is screw down your floor planks, then a hammer might not be as useful. But, just because you don't use one tool or the other does not make that...

As this is an Advanced section and we are talking about Solo diving, when did any safety stop become mandatory? I can ALWAYS cut a safety stop short.

Thats crazy that you are saying EXACTLY what my CCR instructor taught me!!

It's easy, I look at my stack timer. That's how I tell how much of my scubber has been used after a dive.

The only time I strap anything to a tank is when it is my deco bottle. I attach a thigh pocket with straps to the deco bottle to hold "deco" items.

Good Lord, can the crap ton of DEET posts be moved to a DEET discussion?

I told my wife when I first started diving that I was ONLY looking at doing wreck diving, had zero interest in caves and would never touch a CCR (death machine). Now I am full cave CCR and no longer make statements of what I will never do.

I have a blanking plug for that specific first stage and my CCR does not have a CMF orifice. It has a needle valve.

I also ditched the Apeks that came on my CCR and replaced them with Halcyon H-50D, zero issues.

You will need to find a private instructor. If not, this is exactly what you will be doing. Once again, the pie in the sky training that people are discussing here, really do not happen in larger class environments. Might it happen somewhere in the country, sure. But, for what you are...

No cert is required, unless it is required to do what you want. THEN, it is required.

It may not seem like it makes a difference but, where are they saying your are doing your check dives at? The shoop I worked at offered a "local" quarry check dive package and then a "Florida" grotto and springs check dive package. Naturally, the Florida package cost more.

THERE is the winning answer to the basic question that kicked all this off. It is NOT uncommon for an instructor to want all of the "students" in the same equipment configuration so that each skill is not having to be individually taught to each student. This is literally not rocket surgery.

I am going to say it and there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth among the crowd here. In your area you are not going to find any standard "group" classes that are not being taught on their knees. If you are wanting neutrally buoyant training you are going to have to go with a private...

It may seem like it from time to time when you read a bunch of stuff in forums, but PADI is not the only "puppy mill" dive agency. I have seen most all agencies put out some crappy product (divers). Basically, just don't go to some other agency and be like "Whew, I am safe because this isn't...