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I am sure Steve's posts helped people enjoy and be safer in their time underwater, sorry to hear that Steve won't be able to that himself again... my condolences!

This is rather cool: BBC News - First oxygen-free animals found

Hi! I have an old 20w Hid that is still working fine despite some "ageing"(the reflector is sorta hard to "lock" and the handle is gone) but now the battery is definetely on its last lap and when I went to your website I couldnt see batteries for sale anywhere... My had a rated burn-time of...

My OW-course was 5 days (8-16 or so) and cost about 400$ (about 10 yrs ago). That was pretty close to the maximum amount of resources I was prepared to spend to learn how to dive. I had a good instructor, not great but good. I came out of that class with "bad" bouyancy but with the...

I flew to florida for my technical training (not GUE/UTD), the instructor I wanted to learn from lived there so I went...I think its pretty rare (unless you live in a "hot spot") to get local training... ymmv

The north sea isnt an option in your poll...

For me, its first about "attitude", you either feel comfortable diving with someone or you dont. A diver with the right attitude will understand the why´s of their own config/preference as well as others. When its time to dive together (the only time I care about someone elses diving), you...

I dont care what agencies say about my diving. I dont care what other people say about my diving, unless they are diving with me. I talk about what I experience on my dives, not how...

I sort of disagree... I did my mix-courses in Florida in a wetsuit, a long way from the cold local waters. It gave me more in-water time on the skills particular to that course and with the instructor than I would have had on a local course. When I got back I started slow to determine how the...

Yes. My "hero image" has also changed over the course of my diving life. When I started out, my "hero image" was a dolphin, maybe because I started out as a snorcler/free diver before I even thought of scuba. "Dolphin" still remains as my hero image for free diving but for diving it has...

1) Myself, because Im the only one who has no other choice than to dive with me if Im to dive at all. 2) I will let you know when I find out, I have begun to suspect that something close to perfection is the least that will be acceptable, what a demanding sob...

Im not sure how much room standards(depends on the agency obviously) leave for failing a student for "an unsafe attitude" but your hypothetical would propably be the ideal argument for it.

"Good gear" encourages "proper" execution and "bad gear" discourages it. I think the effect is most obvious at "the ends of the spectrum", that is really good or bad divers are most helped by "good gear". For those "in the middle", pretty much anything goes...

Do the posts there come up with "new posts"-search? Ive been a member for a while but never seen any of the threads there (of course I may just have missed it)... Just asking...

Only in part, I was talking to the "general you" as well. You said that someone who criticizes a method should "understand it". I said that it seems that to a lot of people that seems to mean that you should advocate it as well. What I got from Chattertons post f.e is that he understands...

But thats a two-way street. How many of those who are critical of using computers as the only tool for decompression diving (f.e) have ever done a significant dive with f.e a VR3? People get bent on VR3s you say? They just dont "understand it" or it was "diver error"...using those arguments...

Just to add another "get a bp/w and be done with it" vote...It is the standard for technical diving (and IMO better and more comfortable than the "hybrids" once you get it set up properly)...

A rational individual would propably choose the solution that allows them to risk-compensate the most(even if the choice is made subconsciously). If you have a bias that allows you to risk-compensate more for either equipment or skill then you get more "fun"(=utility) for the solution you have a...

Im sort of surprised that quite a lot of people kept going to Thailand while there was a coup going on. They were shooting in the streets (but carefully avoided shooting tourists as I dont think any tourists were shot) and blocaded the largest airport (in bangkok)... I have no qualms about...

I think, for me, that risk compensation varies across activities. In diving, using doubles for a recreational dive, does not change my behaviour compared to doing the same dive with a single but I noticed that my skiing became a lot riskier when wearing a helmet compared to when not. I...