Not sure why everyone is making this out to be some kind of horrifying experience. I've found removing the catheter to be pretty painless with adhesive remover wipes. You just dab around the bottom with the wipes to let the solvent break down some of the glue, roll up the base of the condom...
True, it takes a few extra seconds to ditch weights, but I think there are really just two scenarios where the extra seconds would matter: simultaneous wing and drysuit failure in mid-water causing uncontrollable descent, or running out of air. In the latter case, the following conditions also...
As you can see, I've got a yellow hard weight partially threaded through the right waistband (only through one of the holes to allow it to drop freely when not retained by buckles). I've also got a lead rod that can be ditched that I use in place of a light canister on dives when a handheld...
I'll try to remember to post a photo after I finish rinsing my gear; I've been putting it off for the last week because it was forecasted to rain.
The weights are held behind the light canister or long hose retainer, so there's just one buckle that retains both the canister and weights on the...
My GUE Fundamentals instructor replaced my weight belt with hard weights threaded directly onto the right waist strap of my webbing, retained by a second belt buckle. The main benefit is that it's easier to drop just a few weights instead of the whole belt so you aren't shooting to the surface...
+1 for the quick disconnect making the public portion less awkward and for buying catheters from medical supply shops. One additional recommendation if you DON'T have oily skin is to pick up a box of adhesive remover wipes, which are also carried by most medical suppliers.
Given that the local dive shops are closed as non-essential services and probably won't reopen until coronavirus is under control, and that crossing county lines to get to dive sites is not really a responsible thing to do (and which may actually result in a fine since I hear there are now CSP...
I've had this happen a little when carrying hard weights on my right waist strap, retained by a buckle (a configuration dating back to when light canisters were super heavy and ditching your weights meant ditching your light).
Two things I'd add to what other have already said:
1. Pick up a wrist mounted compass as well. I suppose you could use the integrated compass included with most high-end dive computers, but it's good to have both a backup depth gauge/timer as well as a compass in case your computer fails.
2...
I'm on my third Teric. The first lasted one 2-dive day before developing a line of dead pixels. The second lasted a year and probably about 120 dives before it started logging 1000+ ft dives while charging. Might've also had some problem with its battery, because it used to run down to 40%...
+1. Though my checkouts were held during flat days at Breakwater, we were pretty thorough about practicing Monastery crawls, timing entries and exits, etc.
That said, the class didn't prepare me for the most dangerous entry in Monterey/Carmel: that slippery slippery Whaler's Cove boat ramp :D.
Nothing wrong with it while diving. I imagine that it could be more of a pain when it comes to service if the regs came from different brands and you had to send them to different shops. Similarly, if you're able to repair your own regulators and want to bring spare parts on trips, you might...
No real reason. I've always been the type who will try most anything once, and when I had the opportunity to try a DSD, scuba was no different. Where it does differ from other things that I've tried was that I found it to be entirely magical, causing me to become totally obsessed afterwards.
I spray down my tanks and drysuit with a garden hose.
My wing gets disconnected from the backplate and rinsed internally via an adapter that connects that garden hose to the BC inflator mechanism.
The rest of my gear gets put in a large tub (or two if I've been diving with my camera rig)...
Assuming your can light has a spot beam, I don't think 1100 lumens is so high that it would detract from the night diving experience enough to warrant switching to a lower powered light. Hell, if you look at the product lines for common recreational dive light manufacturers like BigBlue and...
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Are you my alter ego? I also had a Teric develop random lines after just one day of diving, get replaced by another which lasted a year, then get notified that I'd beaten Ahmed's depth record. You're even a fellow Torontonian. I'm pretty sure that I've only ever owned a Perdix in my...
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