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Is anyone going to try this? Hw would you disinfect it? What would you rubber band on top?

I am cold right now, dreaming of warm, really really warm water... where is it?

I cannot deal with this. I just found out about the death of the California Sunflower Stars. Crying and crying. I have been on the east coast. I did not know.

I recently purchase a 6 foot DSMB and tried it on a drift dive in West Palm. It was a disaster, though luckily I was not hurt. I used a cheap plastic ratcheting reel I had used successfully with a smaller DSMB but this time I somehow did not disengage the mechanism AND at the same time I was...

What type of line do you prefer for towing a dive flag for these situations: 1) drift diving as in west palm beach, maybe to 70-80 feet 2) freediving shallow, less than 30' 3) shallow shore dives to less than 30' I have been thinking of using a reel for the former I've been using the cheap...

Apparently there is a waterproof gear bag that you can rappel down cliffs wearing, then run through caverns, and when you stop you can unpack an entire camping setup including tent AND a full sidemount rig with two tanks. I just saw this in the movie “Cave”! Does anybody know where I can get...

I am curious about benefical altered mental states people have experienced freediving or scuba diving. For instance Natalia Molchanova the famous freediver used a Russian technique called Deconcentration Of Attention. Soviet scientists in the 1980’s extracted this as a “technology free of...

I have decided recently that every scuba knife I have ever owned has kind of sucked! First I wore a great big 1990s BFK in a plastic case that was easy to deploy but awkward to wear. It was titanium, and seemed really dull from the start, and I wasn’t any good at sharpening it. Maybe I need to...

When I started diving dive lights were weak and yellow, and the latest greatest was an HID light, so expensive few people had them. Well those are nothing compared to these cheap high intensity LED lights that we have now, and it seems like most of my buddies have lights that you could shoot an...

Last time I was stung by a jellyfish it was BAD and it got me on my bum under my bikini, and I’ve noticed this before: it’s almost as if the jellyfish tentacles stick to the fabric and sting right through it, worse than on the bare skin nearby. It’s very frustrating as there are a lot of...

Has anyone besides me noticed that masks are designed with the assumption that we all have the honkin big nose of a Jacques Cousteau? I have a little tiny girl nose, and I’d like a free diving/scuba mask that doesn’t waste a lot of volume at the end of it. I also like a clear skirt because women...

Does anyone know which gradient factors my Shearwater diving buddies would set to match my DSAT? My buddies are lucky enough to have Shearwaters!

Well now that I have this vintage backpack, I’m thinking of trying it without the wing. My tank is a high-pressure steel 80 and I was definitely a bit too negative swimming around in a pool with it full with no wing, but I’m thinking it might be perfect in salt, however I realize I don’t really...

I could not resist this vintage plastic backplate from I think the 1980’s? Anyone know? Added a slot for crotch strap and switched my harness to it, very comfortable! Orange! Yes!

So I went freediving again today in Warm Mineral Springs, and it occurred to me that I wasn’t in seawater, and I wasn’t in normal freshwater. It’s very high mineral content, the highest of any spring in Florida. Could that affect my depth gauge? It felt effortless to go deeper, although I was...

Florida beaches and I have to drag a flag, and boy does it suck! (Full disclosure: today I did find a weight pocket with 4lbs of lead and tied it off to my flag so that made it suck worse, but hey free lead!) I have a standard dive flag with the big styrofoam ball and the lead weight underneath...

suddenly I’m getting logged out frequently even though I check stay logged in... wtf?

But I’m happy! I escaped the evil red tide plaguing Venice, FL by going swimming and very shallow/short/cautious/low-viz freediving in Warm Mineral Springs, Northport. What an amazing weird and wonderful place! Really Old Florida! (And by old I mean Pleistocene). From the super cool 1950’s...

Hi locals, looking for advice on where to get in the water now that it’s blown out and rough on the beach, for instance are there any places behind the barrier islands that are good for swimming and have public access? Mind you I am the type of girl who will get in the water in weird places: I...