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Well, after more than 300 dives, it happened. I got the bends. 7 hours in a hyperbaric chamber and a day and a half later and I was feeling mostly OK. The tingling had gone from my fingers and toes and, a week after the incident, the nausea had mostly gone. Months later, I had another follow-up...

I called two pharmacies, today, and got the same, sad, news from both that scopace has been discontinued. That's horrible for me. The only thing worse would be if scopolamine patches were discontinued as well. Does anyone know why this happened?

DUI TLS350QZ, size L, zip seals - wrist and neck zip seals in great condition - zipper in great condition - absolutely no leaks - includes DUI carrying bag - includes inflator hose - DUI ActionWear 300 undergarment, size L - Aeris Mako Fins, XL -- 4 dives on them - Spring...

Hi all, My family and I just got back from a trip to Isla Guadalupe. We saw up to 4 17' great whites at a time (there were 6 or 8 hanging just beyond visual range). What a fantastic trip! The most interesting thing I learned is that great whites are intelligent. Not only could you see it in...

I'm thinking of getting a 5mm wetsuit for the tropics and then using it in the United states and Canada where the water is colder. Is that a good idea? My thought was to but a farmer John 7 mm with a hood on top if the water gets really cold. Therefore I have the following questions: 1) will a...

Hi Administrators, Several things seem to have changed in all the recent shuffling and I can't seem to find the thread that describes that. I've noticed that the threaded view is now gone and that the 'New Posts' link only brings-up 100 posts (it used to show 500). I'm interested to know...

I've been wanting to dive with Great Whites but, *wow* it is costly. We live in Southern California so the Guadalupe trips have been tempting (and probably what I'll end up doing). I thought, what about just doing a day trip off the Farallons? It turns out, however, that it's about $800 per...

My family and I are planning to be in the neighborhood of Protea Banks around 5th through 7th of August next year. We'd like to dive, so that brings me to a few questions I had. I know I can sound kind-of nervous about this dive planning stuff but that's just how I register excitement. At...

Please change my screen name to "Code Monkey". After lunching with several SB members at the Long Beach scuba show, I've been inspired to use some name less boring than the one with which I was born. Thanks!

Hi all, My wife has an Olympus C-5050 (olympus housing) with a Sea&Sea YS-90DX strobe and fiber-optic sync cord. Unfortunately, she has been having trouble with the strobe blowing things out when she's taking macro shots. We're thinkng that the problem is that the 5050's smallest aperture...

Hi All, I've got a Bare Arctic SGS semi-dry but it gets pretty cold, here, in Southern California and I want to add stuff to make it better. I was wondering whether a 7mil vest with hood would help (and, if so, do I wear it under or over a semi-dry)? Would mittens (I've got 5 mil gloves...

...and be done with it? Is there a reason to keep the reel and the SMB separate (until I need to use them)?

Hi all, I've been looking for snap bolts and I've found them made out of a bunch of differetn stuff. What's okay to take saltwater diving and what're the relative advantages? Will any of this have an electrolytic reaction with my stainless D-rings? Thanks!

Okay, I want a single device that I can use as a safety sausage in case I get lost at sea and as an SMB so that I can do a drifting safety stop and keep roving boats from turning me into chum when I surface. Therefore, I want something that I can inflate at depth but, at the same time, top-off...

Now, I know what you're going to say: "you can't equalize goggles." But I was thinking, if I lose a mask strap (or the whole mask) underwater, I'm going to want to abort the dive, anyway. I thought that I could do this while being able to look at my gauges if I did the following: 1) pulled...

Hi all, My wife has been a real underwater photography enthusiast for some time and has been wanting to get me into it. One of my reasons for staying away from this hobby is the likelihood of an eventual flood and the cost of the equipment replacement when that happens. The Oly stylus...

My family and I just bought a McMurdo FastFind+ (with GPS) with the dive cannister and we're headed to Palau. It seems like just the sort of thing to which the TSA might object. I'm bringing all the documentation on it just in case. But this brings me to the question: has anyone else taken a...

Leaving on Dec 23 for about 1.5 weeks of land-based diving. I don't have any questions, per se, I'm just excited and wanted to tell somebody! :D

After I dive, if I can't change into dry clothes for 20 minutes or so, I get itchy butt. I'm blaming it on those stupid mesh underwear that are sewn into my swim trunks. I'm pretty sure this isn't type I DCS because I dive pretty conservatively, it happens all the time, and it only happens on...

My wife and I each have about 120 dives but we've never done the shore diving thing. Well, it's about friggin' time 8o) so we're going over to Catalina on Labor day to do the dive park. We plan to rent tanks and weights from Scuba Luv (it's been a few years, but we've dived with them before)...