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You don't have to do it every time. Take note of how much weight and stick with that. Only need to recheck if you change equipment. After a few more dives you'll do an end of dive weight check to fine tune your buoyancy but Steve's procedure will do for now.

Your only problem is that you've been reading too much scubaboard and watching too much dive talk. Your expectations for yourself is too high. Where in NZ are you? NZ has no coral at the depth your diving so don't worry too much about grabbing things if you need to. Our marine life will grow...

I've always understood that an analogue gauge is most accurate at the midpoint of its range. Therefore if you expect to be measuring 10 bar then you use a 20 bar gauge.

Pretty much. Certainly! I've recently found myself exploring very low vis sumps where difficult access demands that we only bring 3L (25 cubic foot) or if we're lucky, 5L( 40 cubic foot) tanks. Its shallow diving but still somewhat unsettling being squeezed in a tight restriction with such...

Thanks!

All rebreather mouthpieces I've seen have have hoses coming in from each side. Is there any reason you shouldn't have one hose coming in from the side an another coming from the bottom? Just thinking about ways to streamline two sidemount breathers

Only spare gear and only if I'm going on the same trip.

Has there been any talk about including some sort of TTS display specific for overhead environments? I.E your computer gives you your TTS assuming that you will return along the same dive profile (allowing for correct ascent rates and decompression stops). You would have to let the computer...

Are there any other brands apart from DGX and Deep 6 that provide service manuals to the public, without needing to be a dive store or have done their training courses?

Those are five pretty incredible stories!

This is not really a problem because it didn't cause an incident. Sure it costs them more money than if they'd just taken it to the shop to begin with, but its no reason not to try service your own gear. This is what I'm interested in. I wonder how many of these would have been resolved...

Interesting. Do you know what was wrong and why it wasn't apparent until you were at 60ft? What tests could have been done post service to catch it?

I was servicing my regulators the other day and at the bottom of every page in the service manual is a full paragraph repeating the same lecture about how untrained divers should never attempt to service their equipment, its a great way to die, your an idiot if you try etc etc. Is there any...

Fair enough

The air diluent thing has been banded around a lot despite no evidence to support it. They never state what gas they were on in the video.

Well, good on DAN for looking into this incident, accepting the mistakes that they made and making the necessary adjustments to improve. Also, good on Dive Talk for raising the issues in a manner that gets them sorted quickly. I doubt that DAN would have resolved their SOPs so quickly if it was...

Maybe completely eliminate the Mouthpiece by removing it entirely and going for a dive without one. I'm pretty sure Vance Harlow has a test for wet breathing where you rotate the reg upside down and see what happens. Can't remember exactly what that tell you though. I'll try look it up.

The $18K "admission" sounds like a classic Gringo stitch up to me. Here's a desperate rich white American. Let's milk him for all we can

For all you witch hunting folks focusing on the restriction, you understand that the incident didn't actually occur IN the restriction right? The restriction potentially had absolutely nothing to do with it.

This is a dive incident that has the potential for the community to learn from so I disagree that the video was too long. Woody didn't go out and decide to get bent that day, nor did he decide that he wanted to make an incident worse. As Gareth Lock teaches, we need to understand why the...