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This weekend I offered to do the video work for a Fundies class. I was pretty much wearing exactly the same kit that I had recently passed Fundies in, bar going to back to my Mares Avantis. The results were less than fabulous. :shocked2: Without the heavy sold fins I was unable to properly...

So then Fundies...... :coffee: It's been an odd road to getting to the point of taking a GUE Fundamentals course. I moved back to the UK about two years ago, bought a drysuit (or drybag considering it's dali-esque fit!) and slowly committed myself to UK diving. I spent the first year getting...

A colleague recently gave me a few of his old Aquacorps issues to read and I came across some very sage advice from Sheck Exley: It rings as true today as it did 20 years ago.

After coming back from a recent trip with 100 bar of 21/35 (about 1500psi in old money) and having no top-up facility at the local LDS, I thought about diving a bottom stage. The Pros: Obviously cost, A fill of one Ali 80 as opposed to gassing twin 12s. Min Gas is preserved if I descend on...

So a slow start to this year's dive season has been compounded by tinnitus; in one ear, forcing me to stay out of the water. I've just got back from the ENT and after a bit of digging, and I mean literally, he informed me I've got a retracted ear drum, which may or may not have caused the...

I'm just weighing options for Cave (probably along way away at this point) The general IANTD route is: Cavern--Intro-Full Cave Whereas GUE is : Fundies (tech pass) -- Cave 1-- So is Cave 1 the same as Intro to Cave? Or is it just a bit less than Full Cave? The same way that Tech 1 is a bit...

For all my macho-posturing and acerbic commentary on SB, I am; unashamedly a warm-water wimp. I've clocked up well over 2000 dives in a fraction under 10 years of diving, but since leaving Australia I could count the dives in Sub-20 degree C on one hand (and a foot or two :) ). That was until...

When I did my OW & AOW cert in Thailand, many full moon parties ago, there was one outstanding dive that burned an image onto my brain and made me seek out similar wherever I went. The dive was the King Cruiser; a shipwreck There is a certain something about a wreck dive. A feeling hair of...

Just curious as to how divers feel about the subject. A little background. I'm a currently writing a paper on the ethics of underwater archaeology for my grad work in Maritime Archaeology. Archaeology has, has hopefully moved passed it's grave digging past, but in the era of SCUBA a new avenue...

I've been reading this thread with interest over the last few days: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/advanced-scuba-discussions/395845-told-my-jedi-master-im-ready-200-need-start-preparing.html We often on this board help others find their way into Scuba, or even further into Tech, Cave, DIR or...

After reading this thread: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/apeks/395490-atx40-normal.html I decided to try and find another budget alternative to upgrade my TX40. In the UK Apeks dealers wanted £30 + p&p I came across this website: SCUBA products A/X/TX40 to A/X/TX50 conversion who only...

I was on a technical dive charter last week. The previous evening the owner had rung me and asked me what gasses I would like for the dive. He mentioned that others on the boat would be diving a 20/30 with a 50% deco; the dive would be 55m. After some quick calculator bashing I replied that I...

Recently I was trying to get hold of a very specific D-ring. This lead to me a phone call with a small UK dive manufacturer (I won't mention the name as I don't want to be accused of advertising). Anyway after an extended discussion the owner told me that he would soon be putting out a SM onto...

What makes your rig yours? Is there anything controversial in your set-up? Do suicide clips float your boat or are you trying hard to throw those pair of split fins away? More of a curiosity than anything else. Just wondering what other people like. Things that mark me out would be my...

I've been musing over this since I saw this video on you tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJTWa2xHqJU&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL It's TDI IT Tom Steiner showing how to really streamline your stage cylinders. It's a good idea, I'm just not sold on the cam straps mounted on the...

I thought I'd do this light-heartedly, so that's why it's the community forum rather than anywhere else. Therefore anyone who wants to really flame on me can do so with my blessing :D 1: The Long Hose wrap-around. Maybe it's just me, but I don't like cord around my neck. It may have...

I've put this question in here to avoid any input from non-tech divers. This is a serious question. I was musing over it earlier today and I'm not really sure where my 'cut-off' point would be. At what point would I have to stop helping any consider my own safety. I've often joked to...

My goal for this year is to put back on the 9 kg's (20lbs ish) I've lost over the past few years due to working full time as a dive instructor. I'm now in the 2nd phase of the exercise plan. The first phase was designed to raise my fitness levels and increase mass. It also had to burn off a lot...

Hello, I'm due to fly into Kuala Lumpur next week and I'll be heading up the coast looking for work this 2011 season. I'm an experienced instructor. 6 years now. I've worked in Australia, Egypt, Malaysia (Tioman & Perhentians), Mozambique, Malta and Honduras. Normally I teach in English...