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I regularly get a cave fill for my tanks. 2400 psi is usually my turn pressure. Ultimately, your tanks are your tanks. If a cave fill makes you nervous, don't do it.

There are people on here with much more Hawaii experience than me but, for my part, be aware that any island changing pretty much takes a day. If you're diving, then there's time before the flight that also has to be accounted for. Maybe not such a big deal with two islands and two weeks but...

For anyone looking to dive the meg ledge, keep in mind, these are fairly deep dives. It sits at ~100 ft deep and is very flat. This is about a square of a profile as you will find on an actual dive. It's very easy to lose track of time and gas supply while down there looking for teeth, so be...

Honestly, I knew nothing about Big Blue until I saw them at Amigos while I happened to be looking for a replacement to my old canister light that was dead. The Big Blue intrigued me because it was LED, bright, and I wouldn't have to worry where the light cord was when clipping in my sidemount...

I have the Big Blue 3500 as my primary light. I can't say what the actual lumen output is but it is brighter than my old HID canister that, frankly, worked fine until it quit working. The light has four settings and I typically run it on one of the lower settings. The lowest setting is...

A couple of weeks ago, I was in Little River when the flow was really kicking. I was dropping my O2 bottle off while trying to not get blown out of the cave. My primary reg started breathing wet until one breath was all water. Thankfully my other reg was right where I hung it on its necklace and...

If you are diving with so much squeeze that you're concerned about blood flow, how are you able to move about in the drysuit? I don't dive with a big air bubble in my suit but I do put in enough gas to 1) be warm and 2) be able to move around easily. I also dive with my suit vent open so that...

Put the two ends of the bungee necklace under the mouthpiece ziptie. Simple and never had a problem with the reg slipping off the necklace.

and even if she wasn't in Australia right now, why should we ask her to risk her life to continue the search when Edd and others have said it's too dangerous to continue searching deeper?

I just watched the Vortex videos Cave Diver posted and the cavalier attitude shown in each one of them really bothers me. Every one of the divers I saw in those videos looks like a OW diver swimming past the grim reaper sign and into the cave. It appears...much like the Ballroom at Ginnie...that...

awesome photos. glad y'all made it out there. one day....one day

There's nothing in any of them worth dying for.

Thank you all for the information posted on here. This was a stupid, stupid death. What a waste.

They can be useful to hire as guides, too, if you are new to the area...even if you aren't new to the ocean. They can often give you lots of info about the history of whatever wreck you may be diving on and point out things you may miss or not recognize. I dove the Gill (shipwreck out of...

Yeah, Fran was a Cat 1 when it went through Raleigh. I was living in a neighborhood close to downtown at the time and my power was out for a week. Massive flooding and huge oaks and pines down everywhere. At the end of my street, two massive oaks came down, completely blocking the street with...

I'm not with Scuba Express but I have dove with them before and they run a typical Carolina operation. What that means is that the diving is done on an individual basis (individual teams) and the divemaster does not stay underwater with the divers. You can generally hire an instructor/divemaster...

As long as you go south of Hatteras, you'll be in the warm, blue water of the Gulf Stream. North of Hatteras gives you the Labrador Current with the water conditions you experienced out of Nags Head. Current, surge, and waves are highly variable and depend on the weather that day as well as...

Yep...Tortuga does have a head which is unusual for a six-pack. You won't see it just by looking at pictures. It's downstairs under the central console. There is also lots of storage space down there...good for things like spear guns, dry bags, and divers who bring large tool boxes on board with...

Up here in NC, for the majority of the shops, if you have LP tanks, you are going to get an LP fill. If you're diving trimix, good luck finding a shop that pumps helium. We actually do have a shop here that will pump what you want and to the pressure you want, but they are almost an hour away...

Olympus has a pretty nice bunkhouse. It's divided up into rooms with 4 to 8 bunks per room (bunks are stacked two high) with a male restroom and female restroom. They also have a common sitting area with TV and DVD player. There's also a small kitchen area. They rent it out by the bunk ($25...