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The best advice to come down the pipe in a long time is the use of the DEEP STOP. A deep stop can be done with or without a computer. by taking 2 min. at half the deepest depth of a dive the diver does two things. 1 they releave half of the total presure to let the off gasing begin and 2 they...

micro bubbles forming from saw toothed dive prifiles are accounted for in most dive computers. that's why they monitor 9 differant tissue gruops ( slow tissue and fast tissue) . computers also take this into account in the following repeditive dive profile. This fact alone makes diving a...

good thread. I would like to add my 2 cents. The best way to screw up a sac rate calc. is to start the time when you first enter the water. the reason for this is that it takes time for the gas in your tank to adjust to the temp of the water. by letting the gas adjust to water temp you gat a...

Cam strap??

Their are still some good trolls out there. the other day I was looking at the DIR forum and a diver named novadiver had me laughing so hard I almost p###$$ myself. Sometimes I look through the posts just to see whos trolling. Maybe we can start a trolling forum? and get this novadiver to...

Or you can shoot a lift bag and pay attention to the 50,40,30 20, foot marks on the line like real divers do. it's just a thought. but being prepared is what advanced divers do

I couldn't help noticing that you probably don't do to meny multi level dives. the tables you refer too can't help with that. They also come in handy for altitude diving and po2 loading. I dive a computer all the time and I'm still around . the dive computer is one of the best things that has...

has anyone had a bad instructor for tech training, and what were the first clues to tip you off that the instructor wasn't as good as you thought they should be.

I think that split fins are line entanglement hazards and wrist computers would give differant information than the deco softwear used to plan a dive. I beleave the use of a computer in gauge mode is better if you plan a dive useing softwear.

Hi everybody, publishing my thoughts is new to me , but from what I have read on other subjects here I hope you can help. I've been scuba diving for about 20 some odd years. and over those years I have taken a number of courses. Some of those courses I feel that the instructors just didn't...

Thats how I adjust for the differances between steel and aluminum tanks. I use the bottom hole for steel and the top hole for aluminum.