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In the early days of hard hat diving, with no check valves in place, when the surface compressor failed, the diver was crushed into a sloppy mess into the hard hat. Same deal in the drysuit without air to equalize the pressure.

My recommendation is to switch to doubles. BUT, I used a 40 for a few years on a bracket, and that is really not a great way to go. Much easier to sling it under your LEFT arm. I pressurize the reg before entering the water, then turn the valve OFF, to prevent free flows. the major issue with...

Your rig looks fine to me. I dive mostly doubles with the xtek system, so I have my tank just high enough to reach the valves. If you reach over you shoulders with your elbows tight against your chest you should be able to just touch the top of your plate. With a single tank adaptor you should...

Where was his gear found? was it entangled to the point He could not free it. Was it a weight integrated system and he removed it and could not maintain neutral buoyancy. Do divers use redundant systems to dive this wreck? Too many unknowns to give a rational answer for me...

Sounds like a medical issue to me...

I had almost 100 logged dives before I did the AOW class. I did it with a group of friend with my local shop, but we did it at UNEXSO in Freeport and I was a fun class, so I say get lot's of practice, then do it...

If I wanted to go to Bonaire and dive solo, and rent a set of double 80's with a manifold, which is what I have been diving since 1994, and I have and know how to use a DSMB, cutting tool, reels, lights, spare mask, etc. Where would be a good place to stay, and rent double tanks and weights...

This is total BS, if she had a basic open water certification, and some experience, and carried the proper redundant equipment, she should have been allowed to dive.

A retired State Police diver trained me a long time ago, and he told me "Goody, as long as you got air, anything else that happens underwater is nothing more than an inconvenience” That stuck with me. I always dive with doubles with a manifold, two regulators, back up everything, and sometimes a...

I started with a DACOR jacket BC, but after I switched to a back mount, I wondered why I didn't do it sooner. I would never go back to a jacket BC. My first back mount was an aluminum plate, to which I added my own webbing to, and a DiveRite JR wing I purchased from the local dive shop. It...