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Fair enough. I was looking for answers as to why BC remove and replace is taught in the standard open water, AOW curriculum. Solo diving seems to obviate the need for the skill.

No it is not tech but it is outside of the scope of recreational diving (as defined by most of the major agencies in the US).

I suspect you can't really go wrong with any GUE C1 instructor. Just make sure you know them a little to make sure there are no huge incompatibilities in terms of personalities. I took C1 from Fred many moons ago. Very nice guy. If you are taking a class, most of your meaningful interactions...

Me too.. missed it by two years. And twenty more.

This thread baffles me to no end. It seems like there is a lot of angst over a bunch of nothing burgers. Yes, there are people who time their dives using their watch but they aren't doing it that way because a watch gives them more than what a dive computer or a depth guage/timer combo gives...

Those Garmin computers do look nice. If they ever had the functionality of an Apple watch, I would be down with it.

I often wonder if my apple watch or some equivalent watch could evolve to serve both as a day to day watch and a dive computer (or even just a plain resettable bottom timer/depth gauge which is all I need anyway). The thing is, apple watches, and I assume this is true for other smart watches...

Freediving is not even remotely the context of this conversation. Just like skydiving is not the context of this conversation If I am doing a beach dive, I already have a computer (which I use in gauge mode), it no additional complexity to what I already do on other recreational dives. In...

If your concern is your computer failing during a dive, wouldn't be better to have second computer? In this way, you still have all the information you need - your depth, a timing device, and if you dive the computer in this mode - how much NDL time you have? Useful if you are doing a second...

I am of the opinion that there is no watch designed today that has any value in scuba diving. Maybe you could argue the suunto stinger is one but personally, I think suunto made a dive computer small enough to look like a casio. Therefore, I say that there is no such thing as a dive watch...

Come on man, in any community, there will be those who are misguided. Who among us hasn't looked back and thought, wow, how stupid some of the things I used to say? I mean, just scubaboard itself. I can look back at my own post history. Man, I said some moronic things. I am sure if I look...

I didn't read more than two or three replies in this thread so sorry if this is redundant... Dive watches have almost zero utility for diving. These days, at worst, most recreational divers are using some form of bottom timer/depth gauge device. What's a dive watch going to give you that you...

I took a hiatus from diving for a few years. When I started diving again, I needed a new computer. <- has to do with a family member who is diving now also. I came to the DIR forum to ask what the computers they recommended - something that does gauge mode and logs dives and so on. Just basic...

Ratio exposure.

Yeah, that wasn't really directed at you. I think I read other people's posts and got lazy and included that bit in my reply to you. My only point was, the math is done at home. If you dive the plan, you don't need to look at your dive computer to tell you when your first stop is and for how...

I would put it this way - Even if you use a computer to tell you what your deco is, if you do a certain set of profiles enough times, you might actually know before you get in the water what your deco will be. If you did a dive to wreck last weekend at 150ft for 30 mins and your computer made...

I don't remember when I took tech 1. Maybe around the 2010 time frame. It was a few years after AG left GUE. By the time I took tech 1, Decoplanner was used to determine what deco is required for a given profile. It just so happens that that if ran decoplanner for profiles around 140ft...

I'm gonna keep it short as I need to get to bed but.. I don't use a standard gas so I can do a 1-1 approximation for deco. Well, that is not the only reason. The other reason is that I dive within a team. Sometimes a team of 2. Sometimes a team of 3. Sometimes you start as a twosome but...

Me too. Which is why for dives exceeding 30m/100ft, I am a proponent of using helium. Most of the folks in North America and Europe will be diving in cold, often murky waters. The other agencies that advocate air or lean ean for dives to 45m/150ft, I just don't get it. You folks who went...

For recreational diving, you will always have your primary reg in your mouth under water. Unless you are out of gas and your buddy is sharing gas with you. Still, it is good to have a bolt snap for the reasons you mentioned. Some would argue that you can be diving stage bottles in...