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Does baking soda to neutralize electrolyte spill seem like a good idea? The compartment looks sealed, but what do I know.

Have you done anything to reduce the noise from your compressor? How well did it work? Did it create any new problems (such as issues with overheating), and if so, how have you dealt with those? Did it work? Thanks!

More than just at a superficial level? What was tried, for what reason, did it work, if not why, what happened then, why features/techniques today are what they are, etc. Are there any particularly good articles, posts worth reading that can either help me develop a better understanding of all...

If anyone can recommend a good source of a high quality bungee, I'd be grateful for pointers. I think I'm looking for something around 3/8 inch thick and with at least 100-120% stretch. I can buy something from Amazon, but it's not clear any of those specs are reliable. I'd rather go for...

Sorry if this was covered already, nothing jumped at me when I hit the search button. I recently switched from bands with buckles to just plain steel clamps on my sidemount tanks. Now that I started to pay attention, I noticed that a lot of divers do not use sheathing, whether on steel on...

Has anyone had much luck with GPU-powered video transcoding? None of the things I tried so far has actually worked at all. I don't want to be reinventing the wheel, would prefer to use something that's proven. Ideally, 4-way-GPU-capable. Thanks!

I apologize upfront for this silliness, but now I'm actually curious, how much junk people have managed to butt-mount and still feel comfortable and efficient during the dive. Maybe it's not as much of a problem as I imagine to have a whole bunch of things dangling in there.

I'm trying to decide if I need to allocate space for an argon bottle (in sidemount). I know some people use 50% for inflation and don't bother carrying an extra bottle. Would there be any added concern when using a heated vest (or heated whatever)? I'm not sure what temperatures the wires in...

Sometimes driving to a dive site, a thought crosses my mind that if knocking an O2 bottle over can wipe out half of a house, a car accident may not be survivable. I'm guessing for anyone, who transports bottles commercially, there is nothing to contemplate, just specific regulations to follow. I...

I drove to a local site today, only to find breaking waves. I had to scrape the dive. I have no experience with entries in less than optimal conditions (most sites I visit are basically a salt-water outdoors swimming pool), but I understand that backmount divers in places like UK do this all the...

I'm getting rid of drysuit pockets, and backups were the last item left in there. I downsized to shorter 2W lights and contemplating the shoulder position, as it seems easiest to deploy and still out of the way. Here are a few options. Other ideas? Option 1: on a boltsnap. Pros: the boltsnap is...

A discussion in some other thread has raised a couple of questions in my mind. I am curious what the answers look like for sidemount divers on this forum: 1. Have you ever needed, or felt like to make adjustments in your sidemount rig, or is it, and has always been, exactly as configured by...

A couple of days ago, LDS told me that they had to take their compressor down because they found a bad smell and some oily residue, and needed to change the filters. My tanks probably were not affected, as I've been getting fills elsewhere for a couple of weeks prior to stopping by, but it did...

A bunch of threads I read have raised a question in my mind. Many people have been arguing that the quality of scuba instruction has been declining, some argue the standards have not changed. Regardless of whether either of this is true, in many (most?) areas of life it is certainly true that a...

A thought has crossed my mind a few times of getting a compressor. I haven't investigated it very seriously yet, but I'm sure a lot of folks must have done a thorough analysis of the available options (getting a compressor vs. paying for individual fills vs. getting unlimited fills or a volume...

Can anyone recommend tools like wrenches or screwdrivers that can be taken underwater, and won't go all rusty after a couple of dives. I'm looking for something that can be submerged for hours at a time, not just get wet while in a dry bag, once in a blue moon. Thanks!

Many of us live in areas, where sidemount is not as popular and the density of sidemount instructors not as high as in cave country, and when accumulating experience with less access to feedback about one's diving, there comes the danger of developing bad habits that one may have to struggle to...

I have a bunch of regulators and tanks that I use with EAN50 and O2, and the time is approaching when I may want to crack them open to see if all is fine and dandy. I have training in regulator service and VIP, but nothing specifically to deal with O2. I have looked around a bit, and it seems...

Looking for some feedback on tank positioning. I've been told that fronts of my tanks hang too low. I fiddled with all the adjustments a bit, not sure that made any difference. The bungees are already stretched a lot, and are pretty hard to pull over the valves, not sure if shortening them...

I've never had the chance to really experience narcosis, and it has always bothered me that I lack what seemed like an important experience. The closest I got was an unclear feeling that my time and distance perception may have been somewhat altered, but the intensity of that experience has...