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Early Saturday afternoon with dive buddy Scott. I was pressed for time, so opted for a local dive and we dive the pinnacles off of Malibu Rd. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good, and today we descended right on one of the pinnacles, with amazingly good viz (roughly 25 ft), despite a...

Long time Petrel 2, got a Perdix AI and Swift for Christmas. So diving both computers for the time being while I get the Perdix set up the way I want it. When I open my tank valve, the Swift indicator lights up green. Perdix set up with Swift serial number and syncs up. Swift is on a 6" miflex...

With daylight savings coming soon, and dive travel picking up again now that covid seems to be an acceptable risk, I'd really like to see a "time offset" field added in settings. With this, I could either keep my Shearwater computers on local standard time and use the time offset (e.g., -1...

I've loved diving with my Petrel 2 for many years, and since I'm thinking about starting on tech training my wife gave me a Perdix AI for Christmas. I'm used to the Petrel straps, but am looking at rigging my Perdix with bungee straps. I saw a couple of different options here, but nothing jumped...

Has anyone found the "ideal" material for a tow cord? The nylon line that came with my scooter eventually cinched down so tight it wasn't adjustable. I picked up some tough double braid from West Marine and it slips no matter how I tie the adjustable knot. A dive buddy friend whose opinion I...

I've been diving a 7mm Bare Reactive wetsuit for several years, and it's becoming pretty worn and compressed from use. Last year I ordered a new one, and something like almost a year later I'm still waiting for it to come in at my local dive shop. The owner is telling me no zippers and no...

I just got a marketing email from Aqualung, and one item that caught my eye was their "Fast Strap". It looks like a ski goggle strap for dive masks, much wider than normal mask straps. Anyone see one of these and how do they work. I don't use a snorkel, but it looks like you can't use a snorkel...

I'm probably going to be in Laguna this coming weekend for a dive or two. Googling Laguna shore dives I came across the Foss 125 wreck out from Cleo Street, but couldn't find any recent reports on Scubaboard. Most posts were about 10 years old. Is there much left of the wreck compared to 10...

I'm planning to start tech training some time in the near future, depending on scheduling everything with the pandemic. From talking to several people, they all use Atomic M1s for their back mount double regs because they're O2 clean and rated for higher percentage O2 right out of the box. After...

Asking for a friend... They went out of Ventura / Channel Islands, dived a wreck, saw this cute little one and asked for help ID-ing this little guy 39543459_1987286297959148_6384129467123499008_o by geoff w posted Aug 20, 2018 at 10:58 AM @MaxBottomtime or @Merry ? - you're the experts

6 years ago we planned to go cruising on a Moorings sailboat and do rendezvous diving from the boat [see Diving from a Moorings bareboat charter ], but got put off by thoughts of pirate attacks and went cruising in the Bahamas instead. Fast forward to now, other friends are going and it looks...

I couldn't find anything with search. I do a lot of shore diving and have a dumb key that opens my car door, so I can take it underwater while shore diving and lock my car. I'm going on vacation at the end of the year, hoping to get in a couple of shore dives on the days we don't go out on...

I lost my Venom Frameless on a dive a few weeks ago due to my own stupidity, and since my local dive shop hasn't gotten in a replacement for me yet, I looked on the Atomic web site to see the specs (I still have a Venon and a Subframe to dive with). It looks like the Frameless 2 has a softer...

How long should a battery last, and does the battery continue to discharge much when turned off? I put a new 9v photo lithium battery in last October for a trip to Palau, probably analyzed close to 200 tanks over 2 weeks and all was good. I took a gas blender class last weekend, and when I...

I went diving yesterday. Suunto Vyper in a console, Shearwater Petrel 2 on my wrist. About 40 minutes into the dive, I noticed my Vyper was reading 7 feet shallower than my Shearwater. They were reading the same earlier in the dive. I confirmed the Vyper depth was wrong since my buddy's...

Without getting into a discussion on whether reef hooks are acceptable or not, I'm wondering what is the proper method or recommendation for stowing a reef hook before / after use? I'll be in Palau again in a few weeks and starting to plan everything. Figure no pockets for stowing things, since...

The last LA County Rocks, Reefs and Rips (3R) workshop is this Saturday morning at Leo Carrillo. Great experience if you're new to beach diving. The workshop is geared toward skin diving, but a lot of people go scuba diving afterwards. Program details are at Rocks, Rips, & Reefs – 3R’s |...

I saw the dates for the 3R program are posted this year. There are three workshops, one each June, July and August at Cabrillo Beach, Point Dume and Leo Carrillo. If you shore dive these sites, or are interested in learning more about these sites, this free workshop is pretty informative. See...

I received a somewhat unclear email from Shearwater last week: Hello Shearwater Divers, We have made improvements to the battery cap which fits the NERD and all versions of Petrels including DiveCAN controllers. The new caps cannot be installed on old units. If you would like to order...

This morning was probably the one of the best beach dive days of the year. Which isn't saying much considering how crappy conditions have been with El Nino this year. We went out at Little Dume in Malibu, which is just east of Point Dume and west of Paradise Cove. The area is known for it's big...