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On my last local dive of last season, one of my fins came loose during my safety stop and slipped off. On my first local dive of this season, I had the same problem and had to keep tugging the strap back up, and one came off completely when I got to shore and was removing other gear. They've...

Last weekend I had agreed to dive with someone on a Facebook thread from a local group. I drove an hour to the site, got my gear together, and then I had some time to kill. So I loaded Facebook on my phone, and saw that the other diver was up all night with a sick dog and couldn't make it. He...

When in trim some air flows up to my feet. Not (always) enough to pull me out of trim, but enough to make a small air bubble in each boot, which makes my fins feel loose - like they're coming off. Then I subconsciously clench my feet to try to get a better grip on the fins, and the next thing I...

This is a tangent from the post about my first drysuit dives. The instructor wanted to make sure I had an appropriate hanger for the drysuit, and I mentioned that I would hose it off on my deck and then hang it up inside the house after it had finished dripping. He laughed at how new divers...

I did my first drysuit dives on Monday with my new CLX 450. Hurray! The first dive went really well. I did bottom out a couple of times, but I've seen first dives of the season go a lot worse for others, so I was really happy with everything, and buoyancy wasn't as difficult as I had imagined...

Yesterday four local divers and myself (I'm still to green to call myself a diver) attempted a shore dive in Lake Simcoe, Ontario at Shanty Bay. The water was in the low 30's, and there was a lot of slush to wade through just to get in the water. I was in a 7mm wetsuit and the others all had...

I did my OW in Mexico, which was beautiful, but it didn't leave me with local classmates to dive with. I've been diving with a group from Adventure Sports in Newmarket which dives in Shanty Bay on Lake Simcoe on Wednesday nights. Usually the turn out has been great, and I've managed to find a...

Hello! I got make OW while on vacation in Mexico 2.5 years ago. Did a reactivate six weeks ago, and I've been diving most Wednesdays since then at Shanty Bay in Lake Simcoe with AdventureSports in Newmarket. I'm from Aurora, Ontario, and I'd be very pleased to meet some nearby divers to buddy...