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Interesting discussion spun off from Accident & Incident Discussion - Northernone - aka Cameron Donaldson Thank you! You may be aware of this but for those who are unfamiliar with scooters/dpvs.... although dpvs may weigh 40-80 lbs on the surface, in the water they are neutrally buoyant or...

i am looking for a liveaboard in the Caribbean. Following criteria important: Prefer 7 night Need two beds in a room 3 hour or less flight from FL Not Aggressor - I refuse to use them again after a bad experience. Best experience I’ve had was on Explorer Ventures Turks & Caicos - looking for...

I’ve got a friend who lives in Reno, and she is getting OW certified. She is a young professional with the means to support a diving addiction and I fully expect she will be diving often and moving into tech eventually (I’m mentoring her - she’s not going to go too far too fast). Given that...

At TEKDiveUSA 2018, during the IWR Expert Diving Medicine Committee Opinion presentation, mouthpiece retaining devices were discussed as a viable alternative to full face masks (for IWR). No specific brands were mentioned, however, and I would be curious as to opinions on current options for...

In the link at the bottom of this post, starting around the 6:45 mark, the head of a DIR agency makes several interesting comments. They did not appear in any way to be ill-intentioned, but they really surprised me given the agency and the position of the speaker. The only reason I mention it...

Just curious, thought standardization of kit was one of the few things that was universally agreed upon (even if the type of kit, for example z-system) may differ by agencies? See video below starting around 6 minutes 45 seconds: UTD vBlog: A New Year's message for 2017 · UTD Scuba Diving

There was a request earlier for links to class reports for a specific regions, and someone from another region recently posed a question about passing fundies and what happened if one didn't. I've posted links to my class reports several times and it occurred to me that if we did have ONE thread...

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/whine-cheeze/430056-trip-report-aggressor-dancer-fleets-new-carib-dancer-lots-pics.html Why was the above-referenced trip report moved to whine and cheese? Several people who were on the trip weighed on the thread, confirming the points in the OP's post, and...

It's been kind of quiet in here so I thought I'd post some questions I've been thinking about. Of course there are people I could/should ask :D but I wanted to see what folks have to say... specifically, because I have seen different choices made and I was interested in the rationale behind the...

I seem to recall a thread referencing an alternative to the Suunto SK7 that people were very excited about - in fact, people were replacing their SK7s with this new option. But I can't find this thread/alternative. Does anyone know what I am talking about?

A GUE Cave 1 class was recently added to the schedule -- Doug Mudry is teaching it with Jarrod Jablonski at the end of October. They're still looking for two students, let Doug (doug@gue.com) know if you're interested! Class details | Global Underwater Explorers

I am bringing this discussion here, as a generic topic. It came up in another forum, where it turned into a relatively benign (as those things go) DIR/GUE-bashing thread. :dontknow: Anyway, we have a sticky for "Common Fundies Mistakes" that I think speaks to a lot of this, but I didn't...

So I just bought several tanks that I know have been well-maintained. They are currently needing viz and will need hydro in the next year or so. On another thread a while ago I asked a similar question - as to a reasonable cost for viz and hydro in Atlanta - and I got one answer (thank you...

There may already be a thread related to this, but I couldn't find it... please just point me in the appropriate direction if I've missed it! I am curious as to why DIR is under Technical Diving Specialities. I mean, obviously, DIR is used FOR cave/tech, but it's my sense that there is a...

What follows is my experience getting to and through 3 sessions of Fundies in a very short time period. To create some sort of order, and because it felt like report had started to become a novel:D, I created "topics." I figured breaking it into somewhat manageable chunks would facilitate...

Background: I live in Atlanta and my parents live in Morehead City... this upcoming Memorial Day weekend, I've got several friends coming in from all over the SE and we're going out with Captain James of Tortuga Charters. *Last* weekend, April 30, I was at home with my parents to visit some...

So I have been fairly immersed in GUE-thinking recently: over the course of two months, I've taken 2 fundies classes (class report/s in the works) and a drysuit class. I started training with GUE with the primary goal of improving my skills as a diver, and while I had an open mind and expected...

I can not believe I have gotten to the point where I am pulling the trigger on a p-valve. Holy cow I never would have believed this day would have come. Anyways, I've gone and bought my second drysuit in six months so I guess it's time for one of them to have a p-valve. So I went and read...

How to describe this class? I've started writing this class report several times from different angles and don't feel like I have truly captured what I got out of it. I'll start out with a little background. Truthfully, I wasn't super keen on taking "Drysuit Diver." I wasn't clear on...

I am going to the DUI Dog Day in Pelham this Saturday and I wanted to get an idea of the setup there.... I've seen pictures but it's not clear to me how many stairs there are. I'm trying to decide whether to dive doubles (already set up and ready to go) or deal with rearranging my gear for...