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After much discussion, we went into the garage, found a piece of 2" Nylon webbing & a very stiff piece of 1/8" leather; laid them on top of each other & tried a pair Zeagle EMT shears I have had attached to the outside of my BCD for about the last 20 dives. It cut through the material like...

Stability and head up of a BC at the surface is a really important feature and the Classic demonstrated this during our exercise. This is compared to the the Zeagle I was wearing, which can be tricky to get it to float you evenly and in fact when it was my turn, I tended to roll over to one...

This thread has been interesting and helpful. I was Amy's "Rescuer" for this exercise. This was first time I had attempted removing someone else's BCD at the surface or underwater, although I have removed and redoned my own (old school Zeagel - with it's own pluses/minuses) many times. It...

I had the pleasure of spending a week in bonaire, shore diving from a pickup truck in rugged terrain and everyone warned us not to leave anything in the truck. My BC has a large pocket, so I used an Otter Box which is rated to 100 ft. Inside I used a new zip lock back for wallet and a...

Was starting to believe I was the only one who believes this. I find this to be a critical, teachable skill set that appears to be fairly well ignored. Educational material and Instructor training seems focus predominately on technical didactics and really eschews any meaningful discussion of...

Plus one on Underwater Explorers https://securec7.ezhostingserver.com/diveboyntonbeach-com/indexs.cfm We dove on Sunday 03/25/2012 for the first time. Every place along the East Coast offers something just a little different and we enjoyed our both the Black Condo and Castle Ledge spots...

Had the pleasure of staying at Buddy Dive for a little less than a week and had a total blast. Our package included two one-bottle boat trips; both went to little Bonaire island. We enjoyed both dives because the profile was very different than the shore dives, so I would recommend it in the...

Jan, Thank you for both your initial and follow up post; your candor and courage are very much appreciated. Glad to hear you are slowly getting better - diving for the majority of us is a passionate recreation and it's always unfortunate for anyone to be hurt in pursuit of their recreation...

It was clear to me, Doug was representing Aries and he does deserve kudos for including contact information - that's great for providing the distributor/manufacturer with feedback to improve products, but it would appear to me the forums themselves provide sufficient feedback for product...

Hi Doug - Thanks for responding. You accurately described the methodology for changing modes on the watch and it is pretty easy to do. But when you search the internet, you also find all kinds of post of people like us in the middle of a trip trying to figure out how to get watch out of lock...

This really sucks about this watch!!! I must have accidentally gone into gauge mode when in the middle of Bonaire drive trip using nitrox. The watch locked my gauge mode for the rest of the trip, because it's 24 hours if you the gauge stays dry (sorry not diving without it). Removing the...

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I like my older Zeagle Ranger, with only about 30+ dives on it, but my partner has over 300 dives on her "Scuba Classic." I has held up very well, with the exception of one zipper. She is the buoyancy control queen (I assume it's combination of skill and jacket) and it seems she always has...

In my (not so) humble opinion, everyone solo dives. It's just typically safer to solo dive in pairs. That being said, I have dove with "pickup buddies" and I almost never feel safer, especially if one is hunting or photographing. Be smart, be prepared and constently evaluate your risk level...

Forums are the best place for learning lessons about whatever you like and want to know more about. Many thanks to the OP for putting down in words your experience, so we all can learn from them. I read every post after, to also learn as much as possible from other's experience - thank you to...

Just started working with underwater photography and am very happy with basically single-click results I'm getting from NIK Software's Lightroom complete plug-in collection ($299). Purchased for other reasons, but working very well for underwater pics. You can clearly get similar results...

Didn't actually make any calls, but when I turned on my AT&T iphone 4 (previously activated international services), I consistently got 3 to 4 bars around town and the populated coast. I did not bring it with me in the national park or along the north coast were the heavy-duty radio towers are...

Great, great point - my Dive Buddy has over 300 dives under her weight belt, so I had no fear under her supervision and I enjoyed practicing the various exercises she would assign me for each dive - even simple fish identification. Cheers, Kevin.

rmh - YES, I do remember you - I thought, now there is a diver!!! We totally have a soft spot for our beat up truck - it was our stead to adventure. You just couldn't leave it in neutral when it was warm (would almost always die - always re-started though :) Technically, we did make ours...

Bonaire is the bomb for "new divers" !!!! I have had my OW certification for years, but probably had less than a total of 15 dives under my belt (including a couple of night dives) and only 5 recent dives. Just back from Bonaire and wow, wow, wow! You will most not likely see large animals...