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Finally got my Nomad and got it in the water yesterday. After making some adjustments after the first dive I simply fell in love with the thing. I had no issues with my trim or buoyancy and the reduced drag made it feel like I was single tank diving. The best anaology I can think of is diving...

I was curious what different methods are out there for arrow/cookie placement in the following scenarios: Change of direction of the permanent arrows: Mark the planned exit side with a cookie, make mental note that the arrows are now pointing away from my exit Passing a T or Y: Place a...

This is what I've learned from my use of p-valves: 1) Rochester Widebands *never* blow off. 2) After several days of diving, the glue tends to build up and you can lose skin taking the catheters off. Scrub *well* after removing it and the next one will be much easier. If you're enjoying the...

Wanted to give dry gloves a try, any DFW area LDS's stocking them?

I've been searching the forum on dry gloves trying to understand the basic options out there but haven't yet been successful. I've seen some gloves with a latex seal that looks like it doesn't integrate with the drysuit at all, I've seen others with a ring that looks like it somehow integrates...

Mini-Fixxer (aka Eric H. III) was born yesterday to a very happy Mr. and Mrs. Fixxer. Once released from the hospital, a specially cut backplate will be made for him and he'll be diving double AL 6's.

This time next week I'll be in the truck heading to cave country. This will be my first trip back since I got my full cave card (besides a quick weekend run to Marianna) and I'm really looking forward to Devil's on thirds. Anyway, how are the caves looking? Is all this rain I see on the...

Anyone know if the Salvo regulators are made with oxygen comatible o-rings, etc (i.e. like the dive-rite regs).

An earlier post referenced an instructor taking a student on a cavern dive in Devil's Ear. Is there a cavern there at all? As I recall the key phrase was "direct sunlight". Seems like you're in the cave almost immediately after leaving OW. I know people do cavern there but it seems the true...

I've been frantically trying to find a source of the 7/16" OMS burst disks. I called several local shops and they either didn't have them or didn't want to bother to look. I gave Northeast Scuba Supply a call and John knew right off the top of his head that he had them in stock, reminded me to...

I'm not sure if this is really going to work but here goes. I've been trying to start a grass roots effort to help build a market for longer OW classes by encouraging the prospective OW diver to seek out the longest training (s)he can find. While I've had some success as there is one LDS out...

This was developed as part of an argument I had with a dive master. There has been a trend in open water diving classes (and diving education in general) to ease the requirements needed to certify the diver. Years ago the basic OW class was very extensive and took weeks or months to complete...

It's about time to get my regs serviced.. I don't really have any experiences with any LDS's since Tucker's went under. Can anyone suggest a good Aqualung/Apeks shop? I'd rather not take it somewhere where they are just going to throw a kit in there and call it serviced (if that's my only...

I've got my turtles for my drysuit and I love them (might replace them with some XXL Jets though). Now I need some jet-style fins for when I'm diving wet. The XL jets have too narrow a foot pocket and the pocket isn't quite deep enough. Anything out there between an XL jet and a Turtle?

... and it was incredible. I went down with Rick and my now-defunct LDS (they closed their doors a few weeks ago) not long after I got my full cave card. We had an absolute blast. We stayed at Villas DeRosa. Very much enjoyed chatting with Big and Little Tony as well as Steve G. (he stopped...

Another thread got me thinking about this. I took my adv nitrox along with full cave. The instructor was great and I have no complaints about his teaching ability. It was the material that I take issue with. For one thing, the material revisited all the same stuff we learned in OW and in...

I'm heading down to Akumal in a month with my LDS. This will be my first trip down there. I've got 7 cave dives since I got my full cave card. I was thinking just let the people who've been there a couple of times set the reel (I've heard that you can spend an entire dive just looking for the...

The photos were taken by James (not on scubaboard) except for the one of James in the air dome. We headed out for Marianna on Friday. Got an early start Sat. Spent the whole day at Twin. Did two full dives and two mini-dives. The next day we hit twin yet again and did a circuit we'd set up...

Here are some overlays of some 1935 contour maps and Google sat photos.

Anyone know of any DFW (or Austin) dive shops that will fill LP steels to 3000 psi (or more) with OCA?