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I was there for my 25th anniversary in 2013 and dove one day. I don't remember the name of the outfit, but there's no telling what's happened over the last 8 years anyway. We were there in mid September and it was very windy-the dive actually got delayed a day because of rough seas. My...

I didn't realize they even advertise. I got sold on Shearwater the first time I did a night dive with a buddy with a Petrel.

In the house. Thanks, Max.

I dove a Zeagle Covert for a couple or 3 years, took it to Bonaire and it rolls up to the size of a Sunday paper. I swapped it for an Aqualung Outlaw because my shoulders are really messed up and the Outlaw's pivoting shoulder straps are easier for me to get on. If you don't need bells and...

I had an Ocean Reef we used for inspection work. I found it very claustrophobic at the surface and the straps are much more cumbersome than a regular mask. I also found that air consumption was about 40% higher because it was positive pressure, not demand. I have yet to find a mask where I don't...

It's sold and I'm just doing the dance with USPS to get my hands on the package since I've been out of town when they tried to deliver it.

I have a 30" Miflex on my primary and a 40ish yellow Miflex on my octo, which is on a bungee necklace. Both have the pivot connections.

I was diving the local quarry with my grandson a couple weeks ago (he got his OW cert last September, a day before his 12th birthday) and we headed into the school bus at about 35'. He swam in through the front window and was messing around with the air pocket in the ceiling and I was hovering...

Bonaire is my favorite vacation dive spot, roughly 25% of my dives have been logged there. The odd trip to the Keys, 2 dives in Santorini, but the vast majority have been in the quarries around here...I just love it, even below the bottom thermocline in the upper 40s. My grandson just got...

Spandex cycling shorts, synthetic chamois rather than natural

I'll second what Eric said. Mine started bothering me very suddenly in late May/early June 2018 and it took me until July to see a sports med doc. I was thinking torn labrum or something like that. X-rays showed bone on bone arthritis in the right hip, but strangely the left was perfectly fine...

How much for the regs?

Wow...what do you keep doing to wear them out?

I had my right hip replaced in December 2018. It was bone on bone arthritis and I had instantaneous relief. It was anterior, which makes all the difference. I was walking without a cane in 8 days and on my bike on the trainer in 2 weeks. My surgeon cut me loose for all activities including...

In Bonaire a couple years ago we were noodling around in the shallows waiting for some of our group and a gal in white shorty wetsuit walked out into waist deep water, pulled her wetsuit down, obviously to pee, and then walked back to shore. I guess she just couldn't hold it until her dive...

Getting back to the OP's question, I'm in the camp of try it out first, if only in the pool. My AOW was not as harrowing as OW, except maybe following in line in a blackout mask, but task loading while dealing with unfamiliar or misadjusted gear will definitely detract from whatever skill you're...

I certainly haven't hit a plateau but have stagnated this year because of the demands of self employment. I finally made it back into the water in August because I was shepherding my grandson through his OW cert. He finished on 9/27, the day before his 12th birthday. I'm looking forward to years...

I'm a lifelong road cyclist and I firmly believe my leg strength and endurance transfer directly to diving. When I started diving, once I got my finning technique sorted, I was easily outpacing many of my more experienced dive partners. For me, it's easier and more convenient to get in training...

MOD on 32% is 111 fsw. I've done that in Bonaire, just a little swim down the sloping bottom from the tugboat. Didn't seem like a big deal...obviously bottom time is limited on an Al80, but I didn't feel like I was cheating death.

Mine was last year when my wife surprised me with a whale shark dive at the Georgia aquarium for my birthday. $300 or $399 or something like that plus a weekend in Hotlanta; and of course had to buy the video and obligatory magnets for the refrigerator. It was way cool, though, because it was...