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Did you fall asleep decoing at the 20 ft stop? :)

Something interesting I found, pertaining to the part of the dive where Gus tries twice to fit through a restriction that nobody was able to in their configuration. I just watched one of their videos about the recent death in JB (). Listen what he has to say about tight restrictions at 10...

Not to distract from the topic, but the place where it happened it is not a restriction by any stretch of imagination. It is actually a fairly wide open bedding plane, with room for many divers diving side by side. It just pinches down where the line goes, one can conceivably get stuck if...

Going for anything but a very short dive in a drysuit without a pee valve seems unacceptable to me, I would have to be dry as a bone not to have to pee in the first few minutes of any dive, and trying to hold it would make for a very unpleasant experience. On the other hand, drinking...

Thank you all, very helpful!

Planning on a quick trip to Mexico in January, likely Cancun, with my nondiving spouse. I’m thinking on doing a day or two of cave diving while there, will likely get a guide and use an all inclusive approach (I’ll bring my dry suit, dive computers and mask, rent everything else needed). Few...

My guess is the instructor/DM just inflated the BC to establish some buoyancy. I'm pretty sure she did not add any going from 70 to 185 chasing down her husband, and with a full tank and maybe over weighed, she could've been sinking like a rock by then.

Nice find and video! Next, post how we can get a permit to scooter there :)

That’s the key: “self reliant” and “capable of doing the dive on their own”. Meaning solo equipped and trained (or at least the solo approach and mind frame).

I would say that a properly trained and equipped solo diver is overall less likely to end up a statistic. My feel is that many divers rely on the said buddy to act as a rescuer or redundancy and are at risk when the buddy system breaks down. In other words they are suddenly diving solo while ill...

I have no knowledge of the cave system. It is often said that in Mexico the arrows are always pointing to the closest exit, which may not be the one where you started your dive. At the J1 point, which direction do the arrows point? Calimba or the other way? And another question: It doesn't...

I’ll get the handle for $25 if willing to do so. Thanks!

In very good shape, just too large for me now after weight loss. Have the socks and bag too, not used at all, not pictured as I was too lazy to get them out of storage for pics. $275

Lost a lot of weight, undergarments not fitting well anymore. $275

Plugged his dive into iDeco and got a very doable dive (albeit pointless). He was found 20 minutes after departure, so a total dive time of max 20 minutes to a depth of around 230 ft. Assuming a descent at 60 ft/min, he gets there in 4. One minute to turn around, normal ascent at 30 ft/min to...

While I haven’t seen one of those masks, and too lazy to look it up, I’m thinking a full face snorkeling mask would add to the inherent snorkel dead space. I guess it is possible one can eventually get hypoxic to the point where they pass out and drown.

I was paired once with an instabuddy, she had about 20 dives total, we were diving the Red Sea wreck off PCB, about 60 ft deep. She started ascending as she somehow got buoyant, I started chasing her, manage to grab her fin, got myself heavy to stop her ascent. We finally leveled off at about...

So he was diving OC and not CCR, right?

Updated price $225.

You’re right, 90 minutes burn time is kinda short, yet many if not most cave dives are about that long. You’d want a light that has about twice the length of the planned dive, just in case. So about 3-4 hrs. A tank would last you that long in the cavern because caverns are likely to be...