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My buddies and I go freedive with "regular" open boat charters with mostly compressed air divers. We always look at each other and joke around with our dive count when we fill that part of the waivers. No, I don't log my freedives because there's just way too many of them.

I use Tusa Solla fins and find it to be a good all around-fin: frog, flutter, sculling, etc. I tried the jet fins and found them too heavy. I tried the OMS Slipstreams and the ones that fit my boots have way too small of a blade. I tried using heftier boots so I can go a size up but it felt like...

That is correct. I took it to my instructor and it was a no, it's not allowed...at least stock. The harness is not one piece and has QR buckles so I asked if I can replace it with something more appropriate. We looked at the slots in the backplate but the placement was odd that it may not (or...

I have the XDeep Ghost and I love but it's not a traditional/pure BP/W design because the harness is not one-piece, the webbing slots on the backplate have an odd placement, and it has a Y-shaped crotch strap. It's not necessarily good or bad but it does matter (I have to use another rig for...

I used my old Riffe Descender plastic fins when I first started scuba diving cause I was too cheap to buy actual scuba fins. They worked well with the exception of buddies telling me to slow down even though I wasn't even trying to kick hard. Giant stride entries are done with fins off. The...

The last log I did was when I did my FII L2 course about a year ago: 7 kick cycles to 10m.

I've hand-carried mine on Hawaiian and American and didn't have any issues. Please do tie them together because backpack + right fin + left fin = 3pcs of carryon but backpack + 2 fins tied together = 2pcs of carryon.

That's my next wetsuit. I've seen people in dive boats wearing Mako wetsuits and have yet to hear anything other than positive feedback. Thanks, Dano!

:happywave: Whenever I feel concerned about spending money on diving, I simply look back at how much I've spent on photography to make a career out of it :D

I use a boot tray from Target. 1'2"x2'6" Boot Tray Black - Mohawk It's cheap, dries fast, and allows rinse water to "pool" which makes rinsing sand off booties easier. Exactly why My 2019 resolution is that diving will be a daylong activity not an hour long one :D

Duuuude that is the worst!

Bump Were you able to do the dive? How was it? I just finished reading Deep Descent so I'm rather curious. Don't worry, I don't really want to dive it. Honestly I can think of plenty of other wrecks that are "more bang for the buck."

Swim while doing the tables instead of staying still. Not exactly a direct conversion but I reckon you can also walk if you want to do them dry.

Smart move. If I remember correctly, that's one of the first few "rules" of night diving.

Helicopter Diving sounds pretty rad: PADI Day and Night Helicopter SCUBA diving course Though if I'm gonna pay that much for a cool factor c-card then I'd rather learn how to do a HALO entry for a wreck dive :cool:

I'd be down to do a nightdive at Redondo Beach Veteran's Park on the 4th. Squid eggs should still be there.

I used to do static tables I learned from my FII (Freediving Instructors International) courses until I made them dynamic with the help of an instructor. IMO they work better since you're actually moving and using O2/producing CO2 just like in real diving.

Same here in SoCal though the more I dive on boats, the more I see what kind of "services" boat crews provide. Some remove fins for divers coming up on the swim platforms while some don't. Some are perfectly okay with doubles/sidemount while others are single tank only. Some are very quick with...

It's Sunday afternoon and I'm bored so I'm reading old threads and saw this. Wow. That was insane even with a lanyard attached to the descent line. That bottleneck of a passageway would make rescue at depth very challenging. There was an incident at a freediving comp in Turkey a few months ago...

I do #2 every Wednesday. One breath for a 25m lap which is what competitive swimmers do, I reckon. Repeat and repeat and repeat. Apnea walks were my thing back then but not anymore since being in the water is more fun.