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As a retired individual, I would love it if there was a website available for last minute discounted dive trips. Last minute cancellations, unfilled charters, etc. happen. I would love to dive more, but at an average of $500 a day for a good trip is more than I can justify. Your thoughts?

A little trivia for you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_cylinder#Inspection_and_testing

Worthington Cylinders sells Mississippi plant to Thunderbird LLC for $9 million - Columbus - Columbus Business First

How many dive stores are aware of OSHA rules regarding their rebreather instructors? https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=12956

Watching the DOT's website, I see no applications from Worthington or Norris, who bought Worthington's machinery, as to creating a replacement for XS's/SP's X series line of tanks. Is this the end for a competing line of tanks, and galvanized at that, to Faber?

Worthington Cylinders lays off more than 100 in Tilbury - Windsor - CBC News This is where Worthington's steel scuba cylinders are made. I wonder where they will be made in the future.

What a mess this will be! The M25 / M26 saga! | Tekstreme Diving Blog

It could have ended very differently ...

Just returned from DEMA's annual show and tried getting a grip on the future of DEMA's new consumer show in Ft Lauderdale. I talked with a major manufacturer, and he was not only opposed, he said DEMA put themselves on the financial hook to the extent that if the show fails, it may take DEMA...

Does anyone know if DEMA is still planning its' "Be a Diver" festival in Ft Lauderdale in 2013, or has the outcry from members killed it?

I am doing some market research and need to know the following info; What kind of suit/underwear combination. What kind of doubles (brand/pressure/size) How much counterbalance weight used (lead/ss backplate/etc) including weight belt. Thanks in advance for your help.

For years I have been trying to educate Scubaboard members about cylinder safety and dispel rumors and myths about cylinders. I just "went off" on a poster about 6351 safety and decided a new thread with facts was needed and here they are; From DOT report; "Measurement of the largest crack at...

I have been diving for over 40 years and travel the world. I just returned from two weeks diving in the South Pacific with my family and came away disappointed in the way they want you to dive. Of the two diving operations I dove with, it seems they put one guy in front and another in the back...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society (GLSPS) is expanding and improving their show. The new Upper Midwest Scuba and Adventure Travel Show is being launched Feb 26th 2011 Please consider attending or exhibiting at this show. We have moved to the Northland Inn-an all suites hotel...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society (GLSPS) is expanding and improving their show. The new Upper Midwest Scuba and Adventure Travel Show is being launched Feb 26th 2011 Please consider attending or exhibiting at this show. We have moved to the Northland Inn-an all suites hotel...

I just saw a listing on Ebay TANK DIVE SCUBA S80 COLTRI SUB ALUMINUM CYLINDER WATER - eBay (item 160412638564 end time Apr-10-10 13:21:44 PDT) for Coltri Sub S80 cylinders and the specs list a 25x2 valve thread. These threads are close to the US standard of 3/4x14. If a 3/4x14 thread is used on...

I am getting ready to do another run of wagon wheels (if you don't know what they are, you don't need them). Quality is as good or better than oem. Anyone need quantity? pm me

Brice Reinman the founder of Sport Diving Manufacturing passed away. Services will be held Friday in Miami. He was a dear friend of mine and was a kind soul. He truly was a man who had no enemies. I will miss him. Flying off to wish him a final farewell!

It appears the diving industry is being hit hard in the current economic melt down. What can you add to the small amount of info available as to the state of the dive industry? Johnson Outdoors' stock (JOUT) is down 70% this year. - selected newswatch item - Johnson Outdoors posts loss...

:no watch what happens when a valve gets knocked off a scuba tank http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cLrb7M7Mtw