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Thanks for the replies everyone. We booked 7 nights at Toyabali resort and plan to dive every day. We're going to book the 4 additional days we're in the country soon. I'm guessing we'll stay in the middle of the island for the first 2 days then near the surf spots on the other side for our...

Yes, we were on the Spiegel Grove... Lol. It was a disaster. Since then, I don't do dives where I have to drop to 100 feet to even participate in the dive. There's been a few times I've gotten pretty deep since then, but at places like Catalina where I'm diving in 40 to 60 feet of water then...

Hi Everyone, My fiancé and I are planning our honeymoon in Bali this October. We've been diving about two years and go a lot. We each probably have near 100 dives. But we dive like beginners. After some horrifying conditions at 100 feet on a wreck in Key Largo, we decided we don't like going...

Is this still available. I'm interested in purchasing.

How cold is the water in your part of the PWN? I imagine the Southern half of Oregon has warmer water than right up next to Canada... Do you know what the surface and sub-thermocline temps are where you'd be diving? I locally dive in San Diego and the surrounding cities and islands which are...

I don't really care what people call it. I know what they mean. If anything, it signals that they don't know about diving so you have a chance to explain how fun the hobby is!

Do you have anxiety/depression or a panic disorder in general? Or you only get this when you dive? If you get panic attacks on land, I would guess the sensory overload that accompanies diving would trigger them underwater. I would think an easy fix would be to do shallow dives, dive where you...

I'm 6'5" and about 200 pounds. I use the AquaLung Pro HD BCD. It is much longer than some of the other ones I've tried so I enjoy that. I also have Large Tall wetsuits since the extra arm and leg length makes them fit much better.

Oh and one other thing you should be happy about... You got nervous and called the dive. You didn't do anything stupid that could have gotten you hurt. So it's good to know that in stressful situations, this is how you react. Some people would take off their BCD or go down anyways and do...

I'd get back in there and try it again in safe, stress free conditions. The ocean is enormous and humbling. No one is going to argue that with you. Since you're relatively close, I would fly or drive out to San Diego or Long Beach for a few days and go to Catalina to learn to feel safe in the...

I'm not sure what *xxxxxx*s are for.... But I *know* my air is EAN32 for the first dive as I analyze it after getting it filled. But I'll probably just set my computer for air on the second and third dive for an added safety margin.. Changing the Mares Puck Pro's settings only takes 15 seconds...

I think you're fine. You'd know if you have the bends, and as long as your didn't hold your breath, you won't get a lung injury. I think all new divers get this scare a few times. I certainly did. A year ago, I couldn't remember the frequency I was breathing at during a safety stop and floated...

I see. I've actually never calculated min gas in that kind of detail. I also don't even know my average SAC. I'll look into this. Although I dive a lot in the non snowboarding months (at least 2 dives per week), I am a fish diver and mainly do very safe dives. Fish are my favorite animal so I...

Puck Pro. I think running the RGBM algorithm. I think it's pretty conservative as is. It's easy to change my nitrox setting. Takes 30 seconds between dives.

I was also taught this in my PADI course for oxygen loading purposes and how to avoid oxygen tox. I later learned it's very hard to get oxygen tox following the MOD and diving recreationally. I think it's just to be very conservative so you don't get toxed.

It's partially a time thing, but mainly a hunger thing. Lol. We push the NDL with 3 tanks of air, but have plenty of room with nitrox on the first dive. The 23 mix isn't important for the second dive, I'm just wondering. And no, we do right around an hour SI even when we aren't using nitrox...

I'm not sure what you mean by min gas. Minimum gas as in starting a safety stop at 15 feet with 750 PSI and ending the dive around 500 PSI? If so, that's how we dive there and the 3 consecutive dives with air get me right around the NDL. If I remember correctly from the last time I was there...

Ya I've never had an issue. During spring and summer, I try to get to Catalina once a month. We used to do two dives, get lunch (and take wetsuits off), then do one more dive after lunch. This was kind of tough since we would be ravenously starving and overeat at lunch then hate putting on wet...

Hahaha. I have no idea why I didn't think to use an analyzer. It didn't even cross my mind.... Lol. Well there's an obvious answer to the question. Thanks for the replies. And to answer the questions. I do analyze my tanks when using nitrox, but not when using air. But I watch my tanks get...

Hi, Here's the situation: I only can bring 1 tank (not oxygen clean) and do 3 dives per day while on the island. First dive, I bring my own nitrox since my mainland shop fills from a Nitrox bank and doesn't require cleaned tanks. The next 2 dives where I fill on the island use regular air. I...