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I know that there have been many threads on BC vs Wings but I just saw a news item that made me reflect on the specific situation of a diver adrift. 'That's a wrap on old Jakey': Diver films himself lost at sea This diver was using a wing and found himself adrift and filmed what he believed to...

I just got back from a weekend of diving at Ilha Grande in Brazil and experienced the highest temperature gradients I've ever seen. Air temperature high 30'sC. In-water near surface temperature 30C. In-water at 20m, 15C in the cracks between the big rocks at the site Parcel do Coronel. Similar...

A report recently published shows that in 2015 more people died taking selfies than in shark attacks! There have been twelve recorded selfie deaths in 2015 so far, compared to eight people dying because of shark attacks. More people have died by taking selfies this year than by shark attacks -...

Instructor, Technical Diver and partner in the dive operation Aquaticos at Recife, Brazil, Edisio Rocha died of a sudden heart attack (according to preliminary autopsy report) during a routine dive on Sunday 13th Sep. He was 50. The site was a tug-boat sunk as an artificial reef in 2002. He...

Every now and again I come across SB threads that I can't access because our company filters (McFee/Websense) class them as "malicious". Example: Blocked Site Details: Category: "Malicious Sites" URL...

I'm having trouble recently (only) with certain threads. I use Chrome (updated version) under Win 7. Version 40.0.2214.115 m Example 1: I try to access http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/basic-scuba-discussions/502410-thicker-wetsuit=slower-metabolism=longer-dive.html Gives me Sucuri WebSite...

In my family we have 4 sets of Aqualung/US Divers Micra Adj regs with Cousteau 1st stages. These have been in use for many years and maintenance costs have been low. About 18 months ago I was on a trip and my 1st stage started playing up with an unstable IP causing free-flow at the second stage...

This post has been split from another thread as it was just too wildly off topic to leave it. I would remind members that political discussions belong in the Pub, so please stick to answering the question at the risk of the thread being otherwise relocated. The originating thread can be found...

My dream is to be able to dive even cold water with a minimum of thermal protection - and consequently a minimum of weighting. Reading about this Wristify device developed by four MIT engineering students who developed a thermo-electric bracelet that monitors air and skin temperature, and sends...

Although I've been diving EAN now for over 10 years, over the last 24 months in order to analyse tanks I've hooked up my reg set (with my analyser attached to BC hose) to quite a few tanks partially filled with 100% O2. The tanks had been partially filled with O2 but the compressor operator had...

Any idea what this is? I saw it last week in Bonaire. Just a couple of centimeters long and swimming around among a soft coral. It was hard to get a sharp shot.

We have just discovered that the Brazilian Navy is checking the c-cards of recreational divers as from Jan 1st this year. (Could be as they board the boat or even at sea.) This is based on a regulation issued by the Navy that is mainly aimed at commercial divers, but there is one clause that...

I've been carrying an SMB now for quite a few years and have used it on many occasions with no problems. Recently my wife asked me to get an identical model for her and this weekend we decided to let her try it out. This is the type with a simple plastic tube and a restriction near the end where...

Last Monday (Sep 10) I had to have my appendix removed. When the pain hit on the Sunday I realized immediately what it was and went straight to hospital. Spent the night in hospital and operated at 6:30AM Monday - video laparoscopy. No complications (I already watched the 22 mins DVD of the...

Mulher morre em curso de mergulho no litoral do Rio - Brasil - Notícia - VEJA.com Rough translation - same text is in many newspapers since yesterday. Woman dies during basic diving course on the coast of Rio Biologist of 47 years died of asphyxia by drowning. Port Authority found no...

Looking at the size of the hook this one makes me wince just to think about it..... Angler reels in his biggest catch... a scuba diver he hooked between the legs | Mail Online A fisherman fought to reel in what he thought was the biggest catch of his angling career, only to find he had...

Just thought I'd put a link here as I made a post in the DIY section about a lens protector that I rigged up for my G12 in a Canon WP-DC34 housing. There are some pics and it's probably of interest to other G11/G12 users...

I recently changed my UW camera from an old low-resolution Sony to a Canon G12 with Canon housing. The new housing is much bigger and has a fairly large front panel that seems prone to getting scratched or even damaged in a variety of situations - even in the rinse bucket on the boat when in...

I received in my private e-mail inbox a Newsletter from SB with 10 links to different subjects but when I click on the links they all take me to the same page - to "manage subscriptions". When I try to subscribe I just get "page not found". And the only other link on the intermediate page is to...

So what's with the friend requests I'm getting recently from people I don't know and haven't really communicated with. My first reaction was to feel flattered that maybe I was making some interesting posts and was attracting the attention of members with a similar point of view. But when I...