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Interesting. Can’t say ocular oxtox ever came up in any of my courses, or maybe I just forgot about it. It certainly wasn’t ever discussed on any of the teams I’ve been on.

<Edited to note that I originally thought the family member themselves had posted on here - ignore everything written to them, I’m going to leave it in case they ever find their way here. @telemonster thanks for updating the post!> You have given us a greater gift than you could possibly...

roger Williams - he lived in cave country USA for quite a while so he would have no issues with your drawl! :-)

Or you can buy a mask with readers built in. I have been diving this mask since I started diving a rebreather, my arms were quite simply not long enough to read the display on the Meg handset. Dive Rite Gauge Reader Mask | Dive Gear Express®

I used 50/90 for recreational dives and 50/80 or 50/85 for most of my tech dives. I’ve been out of the water for a while now so I’d work my way back to those values and probably start with 50/80 for rec dives and 50/75 for tech dives.

Yep I missed that too - and also appreciated the explanation.

With one class being an exception, the times I was filmed in class were very insightful. I never felt unsafe even in the good ole days when my instructor was managing a full-size video cam in an ikelite housing. I think the mask strap or forehead video cams are fine for use in a class, as...

Actually that is exactly what you said...

Ummm... actually it does. Someone else can speak to the specific numbers but helium is less dense and results in less CO2 buildup - helps to reduce work of breathing on OC as well as CC. Edit: Oops look like many others made the same point I did but with actual research backing them up...

I don’t have any sleep disorders either, but I’ve napped for a few minutes on deco on multiple occasions. Typically on dives dives with a lot of deco - when the final stop at 10 feet hits triple digit minutes. It has been a while since I’ve done one of those dives, though.

Was curious about Cayman and recently saw this thread. Completely agree with you bc there is no way most people wait until 90 days out to book flights. It’s a shame they haven’t really polled their demo.

Love this!!!!

I do hope it finds its way back to you. That really sux! The whole idea of stealing something bc it looks expensive and then having no idea what to do with it is just crazy to me. More to the point - the idea of stealing anything (full stop) is crazy to me in general but I *really* don’t...

Congrats on your journey so far Jake. Are you still taking Relimid or similar to keep the MM at bay, or are you in remission from the SCT? (My Mom has MM - it’s a bitch of cancer most people have never heard of!)

I’m with you re oxygen tanks. I refer to “gas” (as in “how much gas do you have?”) or I avoid the term altogether (“What’s your pressure?”) bc any given dive typically involves multiple Nitrox and Trimix mixes in addition to at least one tank of pure oxygen. I don’t much care about usage of...

I’m stuck on the fact that Ray’s wife went with him (“to execute the maneuver”)! Now THAT is a good buddy! And I’m pretty sure Cameron would quite enjoy this off-topic discussion in his Passings thread :-)

I could not agree more. Some of the best divers have faded BCs/wings, obviously worn but still functional harnesses, while some divers with thousands of dollars of brand-new recreational gear are a train wreck. Of course the inverse is true as well. To the OP - if you are doing one dive, one...

Someone mentioned NC charters earlier. Offshore in NC, sadly with an op no longer around, I watched a DMC run out of air at 90 feet, and after that same dive, another diver couldn’t understand why her computer would not stop beeping (she bent the computer, luckily not herself). Of all the...

I laughed out loud when I read this. When I took fundies, I had zero intentions of taking any more advanced GUE classes. When I have mentioned that, on here and in real life, people are very often surprised- I took fundies for the sole purpose of becoming a better recreational diver. To that...

@jale , I’m sorry you had that experience too. I know it was frustrating for me. Out of curiosity was it the same instructor or different instructors? Also, I want to be clear... although I did have the “evaluation” experience with one class, the six other classes I took with GUE were focused...