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You forget you cannot breath underwater when swimming...

Your also forgetting a pinch or two of logic and common sense(some would argue they are one in the same).

TBH I would put my money on greed. I have seen people who know far better than I unable to help newer divers because it will cost them something be it time or something along those lines. Many of those people forget where they came from and who took them under their wing to get them to where...

Honestly of the 4 dive shops in my local area 1 I haves wore I will never do any business with beyond getting a charter from (after their training and selling of my first drysuit to me...which they miss measured my neck for the custom suit and wanted to charge me $700 for their mistake) One I...

x3 I love mine. Its nice not having a fish tank for a mask.

Remember when invading to bring your water guns and have them set for "fun". Also do not forget our "scuba tanks" :dork2::dork2::dork2::dork2::dork2::dork2::dork2::dork2::dork2::dork2::dork2::dork2::dork2::dork2:

I'm not even a DM and 30lbs + steel tank is about what I use with my drysuit + thermal fusion and is ~2lbs over weighted....in a 5mm....I'm 160 and in my 5/4 I used 16lbs with an al80...:confused:

Someone call a priest we have a thread necromancer on the loose. :D

For most of the shore diving here there is tons of bull kelp(there are some sites with enough kelp I think about bringing a machete just to get in the water) on most dives so I see it as an entanglement hazard more than anything. So it stays in my pocket unless needed.

In the greater Victoria area(~350 000 pop) in canada area there are 4 dive shops 2 of which run boat charters(one just got a new boat this month so that may lead to some overlap in dive area) with different area coverage for the charters. AFAIK all 4 shops are doing reasonably well and the one I...

Nice starwman. I'm not generally a diplomatic person(I'm really quite blunt) so I'll try to be. Neither of those are likely to kill you. Conversely CO in your tank can and quite easily will. My Instructor had gotten 2 CO hits and now with their shop has a CO checker they use and you can also...

Roll up stuffed in the side pocket of my BCD. Its there if I need it. If I don't its not getting caught on all the bull kelp here.

I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything but... So the question with the gear issues raises how far was the person from the boat. What were the currents like. There are several values that would make me very worried about hopping in to what amounts to 46-50f water with a distressed diver that...

There is a point to fear and there is a point to respect. You can also have both. Respectful fear. Respectful fear or rational fear as you call it is healthy it keeps us on our toes and helps keep us safe. But the fear of sharks is perpetrated not by rational but blind instinctual fear. Do I...

With sharks my though is this. "coastal U.S. states alone, lightning strikes and kills more than 37 people each year.". We might want to start killing clouds... taken from: http://natgeotv.com/uk/shark-attack-experiment-live/facts There is 2 kinds of fear rational fear: which usually leads to...

Nope I'm a guy. But I know the feeling which is why I'm trying to offer suggestions. Honestly I think it took me 15 or so dives before the reflex subsided. I got though my OW mainly by sheer will power alone.

:D. Is all I'll say to that. I know for my first bit the urge to breath through y nose was quite strong but now while diving I can just toss a mental switch and turn it off but it too some time to install said switch.

My suggesting run down to the store with swim stuff and get a nose clip and have her wear it on a day off or in the evenings for a bit and rewire the brain a bit. Likely shes like me who breaths completely through her nose (one of the reasons why when I get a sinus infection I go through...

Well the basic of "holding" vs "pausing" is this. Holding is when you close the glottis so no air gets in nor out regardless of how much the air needs to get out. This then turns your lungs into a "closed system" and thus a balloon made of membranes. A "pause" is where you simply stop...

I guess part of the issue is training and where you are at. Diving here if your 20ft away half the time your not going to be seen as is due to how much algae and company are in the water for all but 4 months of the year. So most buddy groups are within about 10ft. Of each other or less...