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    Question Valve for 100% O2 Deco Bottle

    I don't know that anyone called for an NTSB investigation of why the first stages blew up.
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    Question Valve for 100% O2 Deco Bottle

    I know of three guys that were burned. One of them is the current director of the WKPP, another is a large distributor of dive gear in the US, the third was a guest diver at a prominent cave system. It happens, rarely, but it happens.
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    Cysco lube

    https://www.divegearexpress.com/tribolube-71-o2-compatible-lubricant
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    Tec Liveaboard

    Similar experience here, last summer, Bikini. We were on the Solomon's Master had helium, CCR bottles, sorb, o2 available to us.
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    Stage bottle recommendations

    Thunderbirds are Metal Impact. That should work well.
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    Lower Orange Grove

    The circuit isn't that long. My last trip there, once I tied into the gold line it was 30 minutes to do the entire thing and only 12 minutes of that was to do the circuit and we were not going fast. The red circles indicate the start of the gold line / end of the gold line, with the circuit...
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    Lower Orange Grove

    I always get lost poking around down there. If I'm looking for the gold line, it'll take about 40 minutes for me to find it. Most other people find it in just a few minutes.
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    JJ CCR Questions

    My two experiences with XDeep plates are that they are a bit wider at the shoulders and hips than "standard" plates from Dive Rite, Halcyon, Light Monkey, DGX. This may cause you to have problems mounting them on some configurations.
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    Stand for Fathom?

    Beats me. High enough. Sorry, I'm not trying to be a jerk but I'm not interested in spending the time to mount the LP50s and stand to simply measure them. I only dive that configuration in the summer (when it's ocean season!), feel free to ping me in June when the system is fully reconfigured...
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    Stand for Fathom?

    I only use the stand I got from Grzegorz in the LP50/tech config. It fits fine.
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    Stand for Fathom?

    There's a guy in eastern Europe that was making stands and one of them fit the Fathom in the tech config quite well. I'm not sure he's still doing it though. https://www.facebook.com/grzegorz.pyc.9
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    Where / How to learn sump diving in the US?

    The NSS-CDS has a sumpdiving committee, Jon Lillestolen heads it up. You should be able to get in touch with him by emailing sumpdiving@nsscds.org
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    One dead at Cow Springs - Live Oak, FL

    In my case it was a gas switch done wrong. However, I know someone that bumped a collar, which popped his QC6, while going through a restriction.
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    One dead at Cow Springs - Live Oak, FL

    Putting a backup regulator within the golden triangle is a pretty good piece of advice. I nearly gacked myself about eight years ago even though I had a BOV, the QC6 which fed my BOV had become disconnected and there was little gas in the loop. Thankfully I had a necklace reg that I was able to...
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    Peacock Springs Reopening...

    Yeah, I went to Orange Grove on Sunday for the first time since the storm. I was shocked by how drastic the change was.
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    CCR Cave?

    Fair point!
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    CCR Cave?

    I "love it" when the people that say "I don't need CCR cave" come into town and silt the crap out of Orange Grove by crashing into the clay with their poor buoyancy and skills. By love it I really mean I hate it.
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    New (late 2023) PADI Tec Diver Program vs. TDI

    I think the standards to become a tech instructor are important. Has PADI published those?
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    CCR Cave?

    For the upgrade you're typically looking at about 3 days, 4-5 dives, and 5-6 hours underwater. CCR Cave specific skills include gas planning/range planning, DIL / bailout options, CCR failure modes, and emphasizing some gas extending techniques (SCR mode, etc). In my experience, the guys that...
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    MAV QD size?

    Be gentle with metal to delrin connections. Do not use loctite, do not try to tighten it too much either.
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