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    How many here were scared to death and still completed OW classes?

    Nope, from the very first dive, I felt right at home under water. Once or twice over the years when something didn't feel right, I cut the dive short - we're doing this for fun, right? Now ice-climbing... yeah the fun to terror ratio was WAY too small on that one. Never did it again after the...
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    "Take a class"

    It does sound funny, but I recall one time I took a dive-master certified college student from Florida on a weekend trip in the San Juans. It wasn't until we were on the beach that he confessed that he'd never worn a wetsuit before.
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    Need Advice for Film, Please...

    Kodachrome 64! Oh... wait...
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    For non-technical divers only: How many dive tanks do you own ? [Poll]

    2 AL 80's 1 AL 19 If I am going to need more air than that, I take the compressor along. Stored in a dedicated walk-in closet in the garage for scuba and camping gear. I do have another dedicated ventilated closet for (laboratory) compressed gas cylinders and sometimes they go in there, but...
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    Diver Training, Has It Really Been Watered Down???

    I don't have a personal perspective of current class structure but here's a telling anecdote: A while back, my wallet was stolen and after some time, I realized that my NAUI C-card from 1980 was among the lost items. It took some correspondence and time on the phone to get it replaced...
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    Treasure dive yields I Phone a trolling motor and more

    I once found a nice set of golf clubs that were scattered over such a wide area that it was obvious somebody stood on the bridge and threw them one at a time...
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    Diving from your own boat vs. a charter

    A couple of other points: Trailer boats - in some areas, the lines to launch a boat on Saturday morning take pretty much the whole day. And then there's no place to park the trailer. Bare-boat charters - some of my friends fell for this gag. "Buy a new boat and the charter company will rent...
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    Diving from your own boat vs. a charter

    Better than either buying or chartering: Talk a buddy into buying a boat! They'll have to invite you along at least once a month to help pay for the fuel. You get the best of both worlds. I played that one all through the 90's. Went on charter boats about a third of the time and Other...
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    What are the accessories that you will always dive with, and why ?

    My dive knife. Because of Sea Hunt! And seeing abandoned fishing nets wrapped around a reef :o
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    Drift diving is NOT so relaxing!

    In the San Juans, currents control everything. We generally try to start a dive at or just before slack current, but it isn't always really slack. Some of the best diving we've done is some variation on one team diving while the other team drifts along and follows their bubbles in the Zodiac...
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    Any equipment buying regrets ?

    So much junk has come and gone over the years... a couple of things come to mind. "Soft backpack" BCD that I thought would be convenient for air travel. I (sadly) don't actually go on that many vacations. The harness offers little to no support and it's fiendishly difficult to get the straps...
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    How many dive cylinders do you currently own ? [Poll]

    Two 80s and a pony. Really, I rarely use more than that in a day. And when we're on the boats, either mine or friends, there is only room for one tank per diver. We fill them between dives with a portable compressor. Our compressors take up about as much room as two tanks. I do have a...
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    Passport Renewal time - TODAY's DATE - FYI

    A few years ago, I booked a last-minute vacation on impulse before discovering that my passport was expired. I had to drive to Seattle and spend the night. I splurged and treated it as a mini/pre-vacation. So the extra fee was the least of the expense. I was in line at the passport office by...
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    Hauling gear from parking lot to pool, quarry, lake

    I've got both of those kinds of carts for dock carts and greenhouse carts. The top ones rust quickly with any exposure to salt water... Also those stupid tubeless tires will always be flat when you need them. I can think of a couple of places with a long cart-friendly path from the parking...
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    Tray + lights for < $150?

    Well, there are all kinds of ball head adapters (though you could certainly rig up something even cheaper than that) some of which have clamps on them. However, I would probably zip tie them to a piece of aluminum bar stock with a camera thread adapter drilled into the middle and thread that...
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    For Sale Heavy duty Vikings dive dry suit

    It's rubberized canvas. Not significantly stiffer than the trilaminates and only a bit heavier. Not like the thick neoprene ones. Mine lasted for about 25 years, with a couple of re-seals. (Then the rubber itself started checking and cracking.) I did put it up for sale once or twice - no...
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    Tray + lights for < $150?

    Those Chinese dive lights are $20 each on Amazon - without batteries. A Two-pack of the rechargeable batteries and a charger will will set you back another $15 or so for two lights. Exact same thing sells on scuba.com for three times as much. Aluminum bar stock at Home Depot for a couple...
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    $50 Harbor Freight hookah system testing

    Yeah, just before the Wednesday night race. Hey, at least I clean mine every year.
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    $50 Harbor Freight hookah system testing

    Well, the other way to go is the 12V "Puma" compressors that appear to be identical to the $X5 "Hookamax" pumps. Supposedly about 30 amp draw. I started to put one together, using the two-gallon PD-1021 model, figuring that I could at least (also) use it to inflate the dinghy & toys. But...
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    $50 Harbor Freight hookah system testing

    Would be interesting to see the full analysis if you can post it. I can do permanent gases here, but wouldn't have thought to even look for carbohydrates.
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