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I don't post much here anymore but I was happy to find this thread and thought I'd bump it. I've been a scleral contact lens wearer for several years. I'm in the keratoconus camp. Normally I switch to soft contacts for diving, but they do a poor job of correcting my vision. My main issue...

Update: I went ahead and bough the Omni Swivel. Installation was very straightforward. I just did my first couple of dives with it, in combination with a Aqualung comfort-bite, in Grenada. It definitely reduced the tugging and reduced my overall awareness of the reg. I checked it a few times to...

Thanks for all the great advice. Sounds like a failure point is not worth worrying about. I'm gonna give it a shot and see if it helps.

Anyone out there have experience with an add-on second stage swivel? As I age the TMJ is getting worse. An Aqualung Comfo-bite mouthpiece has helped but I still get a tugging feeling on my regulator when I turn my head, which could be making me tense my jaw more. A swivel sounds like it could...

Right you are, nimoh I was confusing the terms Still, I feel like we did learn true buddy breathing more than a decade ago.

Never out, just suddenly low. Something like dive #6 or 7 between OW and AOW and my deepest dive to date. I had an instabuddy with much more experience who just swam off on his own. I got nervous, overbreathed my reg and burnt through my air. I ended up buddy breathing with the divemaster...

Good on you for sticking with him, communicating and realizing it didn't mean he couldn't dive or be a good buddy himself. Also, regarding him "snapping out of it," this is typical. He got control of it and it passed, a bit like a cramp. Also good on you for understanding that it can be...

My answer would be different depending on whether or not i had to pay for it.

Hey Mike -- Looks like we're neighbors. What a difference personal perspective makes. I fell off diving for the past 3 years but now my interest is surging again thanks in part to the decade-overdue appearance of an actual dive shop in DC. For me, having an LDS where I can drop in, get advice...

Hey Frosty. If I'da known -- This was kind of a spur of the moment trip for me, heading back to the US after working in Dunedin decided just a couple days before to do it. Yes Middle arch was spectacular and we definitely said hi to the resident stingray. We did work down a wall but maybe...

I've been a slacker about posting to Scubaboard but I thought I'd chime in with little report on Diving Poor Knights. Date: 9 June, 2015 Went with Dive! Tutukaka. Some people here referred to them as a cattle boat. This was certainly not my experience as I was one of only four divers. This...

Well, middle age finally happened and I'm having trouble reading my gauges, even with mother nature's helpful 25% magnification. I am nearsighted and have astigmatism. On land I wear hard lenses. For diving soft lenses are a compromise but, now that my close vision is going, soft lenses...

Hi Scubaboardians, With a name like Le Flaneur I suppose it's no surprise that I wandered off. But...Golly, where did the time go? After a couple years mired in work, relationship and the tumult of life, nearly moving to California (twice), exploring a couple far flung parts of this...

Yes that is what they are saying here as well. Although they were not diving a very wide area. He was spotted on the bottom as the other divers were preparing to ascend or in the process of ascending. I also understand now that the Nat Geo shoot had completed but he and some other...

Hello everyone: I haven't been very prolific at posting here but as some of you know I'm a producer with National Geographic Television's Natural History Unit. Wes was working for us on a program tentatively called "Speed Kills" using high speed cameras to capture ultrafast predation. I...

Trip Report: West Palm Beach: July 9-10 My fiance surprised me with a birthday dive weekend in West Palm. She gets major cool points for that. We went with Pura Vida Divers. We stayed at the Hilton on Singer Island and Pura Vida is 5 min away instead of on the mainland. However...

This is where I get a little confused when it comes to buying a dive light. Sure the beam on the left is brighter... but I get more visual information from the image on the right. I'm not sure if I'd rather blast an narrow area with the power of the sun, or have a wider but dimmer wash. I...

42 is cold? 42 isn't cold. Cold is an offshore dive site that you can walk to. Cold is when a narwhal follows you on your dive. Cold is when you have to cut a hole in the ocean before jumping in. Anyway. She swears that in 2005 she dived one of the Channel Islands in November. I know...

Thanks for the warm reception! Hopefully we'll have a house secured by the end of next weekend. I'm sure February will be too hectic so Laguna is probably out for me. But I'd love to make it for the Wrinkles dive on Catalina in March. What better way to get introduced to SoCal diving...

Yeah I'm afraid since we're both freelancers the beach house may be out of the question right now. I can live with another 30 min in the car in exchange for the ferry fee and air fills.