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  1. Spinal33

    Nitrox Tables Request

    Plenty of them on google images: padi nitrox table 32 - Google Search
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    Recreational dive poll - Nitrox

    Depends where you are... In the UK, the two dive centers I use wont let you take the cylinder until it's been analysed and you sign that you have seen the results. One analyses for you (in front of you, they don't want you using their kit) and the other asks you to do it yourself. In...
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    PADI & RNLI Sea Survival Course

    PADI was offering USB sticks for free with all the course content at the dive show last year... Any instructor could pick up the material...
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    Dive map of Europe

    Well done (and thanks for your post on the other forum to my thread). Re Switzerland - some challenges to depth vs width (the Rhein for example is 6-7m deep on one of the locations, but you've got it down to 20m). Some locaitons missing, but total coverage will be near impossible. How do you...
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    3D Printing to solve a computer part problem?

    Done it before for other parts - don't see what all the cynicism is... 1. Get a cad program (google sketchup is basic, but free... depending on the size of the cover and how many edges there you'll probably need something better) 2. Open an account on 3dHubs.com - and upload your design 3. Get...
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    MARES Puck Pro

    I have the "old" icon HD - not the Icon HD black (stupid naming system). The easiest way to identify it is that mine is the non-air integrated one, so no transmitter. Love it - had it since...2012 or 2013. No idea on battery cost, as I never have had to replace it. It charges off a standard...
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    Closed: Apeks XTX40 O2 reg, used in great working condition! not many dives

    What connector is it? Standard DIN or the weird M26 thing?
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    MARES Puck Pro

    I have the Mares Icon HD as my primary computer, and use the puck pro (air integrated) for my students. The single button interface isn't the best, but the computer itself is rugged and clear to read.
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    PADI Adventure Diver Cert. with classroom only.

    Did your friend happen to complete 5 specialities? before doing the adventure diver?
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    Stuck with beginner diver who runs out of air in 20 mins?

    I tend to dive with my hands out in front, tend to teach that way as well... helps maintain a horizontal pose when hanging...
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    Dive shops that offer VAT refunds for visitors?

    Ap Apeks, ocean leisure, dive life... there's a few. I asked this very question on another forum, and got a few responses. Not sure if I'm allowed to link... M.
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    PADI Self Reliant vs SDI Solo

    Having done my DM and AI at one of those quarries mentioned prior, it was a question every PADI self reliant diver asked... the other question/complaint I used to field was the "why do I need to tell you my dive plan" (usually AFTER someone had completed a solo dive and got called on it). The...
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    Stuck with beginner diver who runs out of air in 20 mins?

    At 2000ish dives, I consider myself a newbie compared to many here. Then again, I really am a newbie, as I go through air like no-one else I dive with. I'm probably just particularly unfit, who knows. Anyhow, point is - I see it from the other side. On usual dives, my buddy would have to ascend...
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    Chinese diving equipment

    I've started putting them here: www.europoli.org - site is still in it's early phases... sorry... but the text is there I believe the CREE limit is 4022lm for an XHP70, but in practice they don't seem to be pushed that far in the models I've tested. Not necessarily a bad thing... but it's...
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    Who Wants Better Fins?

    Signed up - on the basis that without some support, I'll never be able to test/try these... and I can't decide/comment on something I haven't tried! Plus, I'm a firm believer in greenhousing ideas, no matter how wild, and seeing if they work. The "investment" from my side is minimal (at worst I...
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    Chinese diving equipment

    I use exclusively cheap chinese lights and action (video) cameras for diving. Reason? When the inevitable flood happens, I don't cry over my £400 gopro, swear at the hair that got trapped in the o-ring, and then try to recover the footage. I throw away the £24 SJ4000 camera, and open a brand...
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    Who Wants Better Fins?

    Interesting points - but as a tech diver (and instructor), power is pretty low on my priority list. If I need to carry more gear, I repeat, I'll use a DPV. Though you make the bold assertion that these fins negate the need to frog kick - as I'm halfway around the planet, it's unlikely I can try...
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    Mares MR12T MR12s vs 15x

    May I ask which version of the prestige do you use? Is it the older one with the many small holes on the matt plastic cover, or the new one with the shiny/glossy cover? I have the older ones - and haven't had too many issues. The odd freeflow when someone jumps in, but nothing too often during...
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    Who Wants Better Fins?

    Non silting isn't an option... In priority order: - non silting (be it through frog kicks or something else) - lightweight, yet neutrally buoyant (love my jet fins, but man are they heavy) - durable, yet cheap (don't want to change them more than once every 2000 dives) Availability of straps...
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    Mares MR12T MR12s vs 15x

    That's where it gets fun, the legal requirement is to have redundant air supplies (which in my mind is a twinset), but the accepted interpretation has been a twin-valve single tank is acceptable as long as the valves can be independently turned off. I believe this is the same in Italy, but am...
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