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Kevin McMurray, author of Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria and Dark Descent: Diving and the Deadly Allure of The Empress of Ireland will be the featured speaker at the annual California Wreck Diver's banquet Saturday March 5th. If you are interested you can purchase...

I only use my 7mm when I am doing 1 dive in the 50 to 60 degreee range for less than an hour, or if I'm doing recreational diving in Hawaii or the Sea of Cortez where a 3mm or 5mm wetsuit will do. Otherwise I use dry. Also whenever I am doing a decompression dive I dive dry, including Hawaii...

Were there any handouts or other materials from the talk that you can share? Jerry

I'm in an out of town as I split my time between CA and CO. If the group wants to do a CA tech charter, I know many of the boat captains in the LA area and would be happy to put something together. Jerry

Look on ebay. I got a factory reconditioned Haskel for $1,800. Jerry

I'm interested -- full trimix, full cave, rebreather Jerry

I have done this kind of recovery before. Here is what you can expect. Very little visibility on the bottom. If you do not stop before you hit the bottom and hover over it, you will have zero vis. The motor is probably burried in the muck so you will have to fish for it with your hands...

I agree. Fundies is the best way to begin a tech diving mindset. Though I am TDI trained, I found the fundies course to be really useful. Jerry

This happened to me recently in the South Pacific, no current, but poor visibility. We missed the upline as it was not on the wreck but in the sand off the wreck. Since there was no current, we blew the bag at 30', did out deco (about 25 minutes) and then surfaced. Not too far away from the...

Tjack, were you looking for an assault or trekking to base camp? What company did you arrange it with? I have thought about this for years, but I'm not ready to do it. Jerry

Helium rocks. Jerry

You are going to have a great time. The Odyssey is supposed to be fantastic. Two wrecks you will do are the Shinkoku and the Fujikawa. On the Shinkoku if you go in the forward superstructure you will see a room lined with portholes. There is a surgeons table towards one corner and someone...

I disagree with John on some things, but on this I agree with him. I do it a little different. I have my dive plan which is on a slate and in my head. Because I do similar profiles a lot, the plan does not change too much and I rarely refer to my slate. In Truk over 16 dives between 60' and...

I just got back from Truk (the locals call it Chuuk). I spent a week of diving there. I wanted to do deep wrecks and go some of the places where others don't dive. Also there is a wreck there, the San Francisco Maru. You hit the deck at 165 and there are tanks on the main deck and trucks in...

Exactly, I just came back from Truk. Most people bounce the deck of the San Francisco Maru (165) and are narced out of their minds. I have 90 minutes on it. And I was on He so I was completely clear. At 190 there is more ordenance than you can believe. Totally awesome. And sitting in the...

It is true that bottom timers use batteries and fail. I wear two and could presumable wear two computers. But you need to already know your decompression, so the extra money for the two computers (now we are up in the $1200 to $3000) range hardly seems worth it when it is not adding additional...

This is a good thread ferreting out some of the aspects of tech diving. I have been doing this for some time and want to comment on computers and dry suits. First, most tech divers use bottom timers rather than computers. Even though computers can do a lot, what they cannot do is a. plan...

Roy, Congrats on No. 50. The kelp on Lingcod Reef looked really healthy. I think the upwelling and surge is doing its job. Did you have heavy surge where you went? Water clarity was pretty awesome. We had ambient light showing off the blues, reds, yellows and purples down to 75 feet...

Okay time for the dive report. We got in Thursday night. Spanish Bay Resort is pretty nice. This trophy husband think ain't so bad. Friday morning went out to Moss Beach. It looked marginal. walked in w/o tanks. Still looked marginal but I thought I could get in to the S of the...