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I mostly felt bad for my Wife and Son as well as the other people on the trip, because they had a bad snorkel trip. When I was working as a Commercial Diver in the early 1970's I worked in conditions a lot worse this and I was in Heavy gear. Even some of the working dives in Hawaii were in...

I just finished a couple of days of snorkeling in Key Largo and it sucked bad. 2 Foot seas cloudy and cool and strong currents at the reefs. Bring at least a 3 mil suit, the water is 72 F max. Diving should be better than what we were doing, hopefully. Many of the boats are not going out...

Back from day two on the reef and I am doubting that I will get much decent footage from the GoPro. The dive sites, weather, currents, reef conditions and pretty much everything sucked hard. My Wife did not even go out the second day and I don't blame her. Probably 1/3 of the people on the boat...

I visited the History of Diving Museum today with my Wife and adult Son. I have been diving since 1970 and was a Professional Commercial Diver in the 1970's and 80's and then worked for a tourist Submarine Company in Hawaii from 2018 until 2023. So I have a pretty long experience with many...

That's funny I have gotten some of the best discounts on Poseidon of any of my equipment. They are my preferred regulators. Hard to get competent service on though, especially from a LDS. I always send them out. I have gotten great discounts on Garmin Descents through a professional...

What brands of equipment do you think are the hardest to find discounts from retail price on? Scubapro comes to mind first then Atomic. I guess it depends on the dealer and how much gear you are buying at the time, too. When I lived in Hawaii I bought a lot of new equipment for my Wife and...

When I get 6 years out of a suit it is a miracle. Buy a new one and don't worry about it.

I use a couple of the Spyderco Salt series knives. The Caribbean model is the newer L200N blade steel and seems to be pretty much impervious to corrossion, also the edge lasts a bit longer than the H1 blades. I also have a couple with the H1 blades. If you have the technology to sharpen your...

Nice! We did some wellhead completion removals using the 3 part liquid. After the casing were plugged, we sent a cylindrical metal container full of the Brower liquid mix with caps on both ends set to initiate the liquid and cause a flat jet in the middle. This cut everything and the casing...

I went to an U/W explosives school with a compnay called Brower located in the desert way east of Los Angeles in the early 1970's. We shot off a lot of different types of high explosives from dynamine to multipart liquids. I have told people many times that there is no big fireball because...

After over 5 years of use on the job and only a couple of minor cleanings it was time for a cleanup and upgrade to the latest version of this ScubaPro Full Face Mask. I replaced the frame around the glass and that included the new style metal buckles. I also replaced the blind plug for the...

I was trained as a commercial Diver in the early 1970's and worked on many diving jobs using everything from a Desco Pot to KM ultralight helmets and KMB masks. This is, as mentioned by one poster, is a very different type of diving, but became something that I was used to. I changed careers...

There is no data to support this, because it is not true. I dive a Scubapro FFM on SCUBA 2 to 3 times a week at work and there is no difference. I spend more time in the water than anyone else in my company on a tank. Now if you are talking about a KMB Band mask running on surface supply and...

It is a Mission MPK12 that I have owned for a while but recently started using at work. I dive with it at work a couple to 3 times a week and it is holding up well. It did not cut as I would like at first but I sharpened it on my Wicked Edge sharpening system to a polished 18 degree per side...

Some of the guys where I work use razor knives / box cutters in and around the water and sometimes they work OK, but I would rather have a larger cutting area / blade. They rust but they also wear out relatively quickly so rust is not really an issue, because they get thrown out long before...

I don't care if others don't like something that is expensive that is their choice. I have used a lot of BC's at work (the company uses a variety of SCUBAPRO and some Cressi and other very cheap chinese made junk. I dive my own gear and just like most things I use I try to get a high quality...

When you buy a knife made by / for a diving equipment compny you are not usually getting a very high quality cutting instrument. When you buy a knife made by a Knife company you have a much better chance of getting a competant cutting instrument. All Titanium knives are not the same, just as...

My company owns a Ocean reef for certain jobs, but I do not like the fit feel of it. I use a scubapro FFM but I would also like to have an OTS Guardian. If cost was not a concern I would probably go with one of the Kirby Morgan M-48 models.

Either lube the valve or try soaking your mask longer when cleaning it.