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  1. ScubaSquatch

    Is certification necessary for shallow water diving?

    As an instructor, I can tell you that you'd be amazed how often, and how many times I have to remind people NOT to hold their breath.
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    Chest Mounted Rebreather, Hose Routing, and Regulator Fitting Sides...

    No need to cross the long hose across your body. Stow the whole hose in your tank bands and clip the reg to a choker on the valve or tuck the mouthpiece under the hose. If you have to bailout you're going to the necklace reg. If you have to donate the long hose reg is right there on your right...
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    Question What is one of your favorite pieces of gear, and why?

    I'm the same size. When I wear my drysuit the struggle is real trying to squeeze my boots into my XT's and get the spring strap over the heel.
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    Xdeep or dive rite for sidemount

    Soooooooo point of clarification. I have an DR LS, not the ray. If you look at the ray DR incorporated what makes the stealth so good. I'm a bigger guy though, so the X-deep wing fits me better.
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    Practicing deco stops w/o going into deco

    Just end your NDL dives with 1 min @ 30', 2 min @ 20', and 3 @ 10'. You don't have to have a computer telling you that you have a deco stop to practice making them. When I was doing my cave training we did the above on every dive that didn't rack up deco just for the practice. Use the timer on...
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    Shore Based DM course

    Look at Technical Dive Services in Bonaire.
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    Trip Report Bonaire shallow 50m dives

    I was just there the 9th through the 16th doing my CCR MOD2. We dived a lot of the sites you mention. We saw at least a half dozen anchors at Red Slave, but I didn't see any until we hit about 180'. The Windjammer is a great dive too, but it's in the 200' range and you need a guide to get access...
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    The big question about ccr… which one

    No to crawling in the surf, but I will be honest in that when diving it I don't feel like it gets in the way at all. The only time it's really intrusive to me is when I'm donning my fins on shore entries, but there's any easy fix for that. You just unclip one side of the unit and let it swing to...
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    The big question about ccr… which one

    I dive an O2ptima Chest Mount "Choptima". My 2psi on that unit is it can't be beat for versatility or ease of travel. I can and have dived with it in single tank BM, BM doubles, and SM configurations. Hell, you can even pull it off during the dive to squeeze through a restriction and then pick...
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    Question When do we speak of technical diving ?

    Cool, but the question was when is it a tech dive vs rec dive, not how much risk is involved.
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    Question When do we speak of technical diving ?

    Overhead is overhead, hard or soft. Happy to redefine my statement to "should you go directly to the surface?" if it makes you feel better. :wink:
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    Question When do we speak of technical diving ?

    Can you go directly to the surface? Yes = Rec dive No = Tec dive
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    New Halcyon Fin (wtf?!)

    I picked them up and looked at them at DEMA last week. They were completely rigid, kind of baffled me. Maybe it was a mock up?
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    Right fit for drysuit

    Keep an eye out on DUI's outlet site. That's where I found my DUI FLX Extreme. Dui Outlet
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    Just ordered a BlackTip Tech

    Where can you get these handles?
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    Where do you get your oxygen cylinders filled?

    That's what I do, I have a 300cf bottle and a booster in my garage.
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    Regulator setup

    Fair enough, but I still will travel with my own harness, backplate and wing. What I'm getting at is training for advanced trimix without ever having set up a set of doubles isn't all that common.
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    Regulator setup

    Just curious, but how did you make it to advanced trimix without ever setting up or having your own set of doubles? I know how that sounds, but I am truly curious.
  19. ScubaSquatch

    Recommendations for pony bottle/regulator set up for solo diving

    Get a BP&W and start diving LP50 doubles. Problem solved.....
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    Descent difficulty, even overweighted

    My 2psi, and I see this a lot with students. You're weighted fine and can probably descend fine, but when your feet start to come up you feel out of control and start to subconsciously hold more air in your lungs and breathe off the top of them. With fuller lungs you stop descending and the...
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