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I'm currently reading the aforementioned book. I've made it through Page 45. The book is dense and tightly packed with information. Now, for full transparency: I am not a technical diver, nor am I planning to become one anytime soon. (I think it would be fun and challenging to learn and use new...

We are both getting cold diving dry in cold water. We dive identical rigs. She believes we can help minimize the cold by simply adding more weight so we can, in turn, add more aire to our drysuits. I think this will cause a buoyancy control issue. My solution is to add thicker undergarments...

I'm not sure which forum this belongs to. It's a weird topic. A recent thread about someone not being able to hear a computer alarm prompted me to post this. I always dive with a hood. Even in tropical waters. I'm bald and I like protecting my head from the sun. Every dive I have conducted...

My buddywife and I have just returned from a four-week stay on Bonaire. This was our third stay on the island and, as much as we love it, we're ready to expand our horizons. Next year's vacation needs to be a far cry cheaper than this year, but the only diving destination we have experience with...

Right. This is going to be interesting. My wife isn't interested in underwater photography the way I am, but she still wants to take snapshots of her time underwater while we're on vacation. In fact, she is so much not into underwater photography that I let her talk me into a SeaLife 3.0 Micro...

Okay. I'm just starting out Drysuit Diving. We (my buddy-wife and I) bought our Santi E.Lite+ suits at the end of 2020 when we thought Covid was going to taper off . . . and then we had a resurgence, which pushed our training (with the fabulous Guy Shockey) to December of last year. During our...

I am prepared for the onslaught of opinions, but this seems a fair enough question that it warranted more than my personal observations. My wife is planning a month-long trip to Bonaire for November. We both dive Halcyon Eclipse 30s with weight-integrated single tank adapters. That's all we...

Right. So, I've been a photographer on land for nearly thirty years, but I'm poor (kind of). Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I'm deliberate in my spending. I've been shooting Canon since then, but haven't purchased a new body or lens for over two decades. A part of that has to do...

As the title suggests, I'm working my way through Mark Powell's Deco for Divers. It's a fabulous book that makes for a great introduction to decompression theory. I'm closing in on the end of the book and have reached the section where he discusses trimix. In this section, there is a graph he...

We're still diving wet up here but plan to get into some drysuits this coming spring. For several years we've been using the spare bathroom as a place to store wet gear. Thanks to this, our entire house has begun to reek of swamp water despite being quite liberal with Sink the Stink. I've been...

I've been a photographer on land for decades (mostly art stuff, but there was a year or so when I shot professionally). I'm currently still mastering my scuba skills, so I'm not ready to take the plunge into underwater photography quite yet. However, that hasn't stopped me from reading about and...

We moved away from our jacket-style BCDs this year and took up a back plate and wing configuration. After about 15 dives, I'm still struggling to find the pull strung on my dump valve. I can find the dump valve itself easily enough but moving from there to find the pull string seems impossible...

Now that the diving season is beginning to wind down for us here in northern Minnesota (still diving wet, don't you know) I'd like to start thinking about out-of-water exercises and mentally preparing for next year. One specific area on which I'd like to focus is my position in the water. Not...

One of the most eye-opening moment for me while taking Fundies was to learn that I was inhaling through my mouth but exhaling only through my nose. Exhaling through my nose was a subconscious reflex to water entering my mask thanks to my mustache, but it was causing me to dive slightly negative...

Note: I understand that everyone's experience is different. I also understand that opinions on ScubaBoard are strong and varied. I am not seeking advice on branded vs. non-branded gear but, instead, on general guidelines that can be applied to everyone. Question: Is there a rule-of-thumb...

After completing my GUE Fundamentals course in February, my wife and I took the plunge and purchased a back plate and wing setup. We're very happy with it. (I wanted to go back plate and wing straight out of Open Water, but one must take baby steps for everyone's comforts.) Anyway, what I've...

I live in northern Minnesota where the water temperatures typically hover around 56° at the first thermocline. I'm just over a year into my life as a diver and have just over 70 dives logged (30 of those in local waters), all of them in a 5mm wetsuit and a 7/4mm hood. I've never liked my dive...

My wife/buddy has some pretty deep nasolabial folds (these are the lines between your nose and mouth that form creases when you smile). She woild say she has fat cheeks, but that isn't it. She simply has very deep creases here. It's so bad that she spends a majority of any particular dive...

Greetings, all! I'm having a frustration when it comes to scheduling my next level of training and I thought that a part of my frustration could be due to a misunderstanding of the definitions of what a training agency does and what a certification means. Some history. I am a new Open Water...

My buddy (wife) and I have been diving at least once a week (and sometimes twice) since obtaining our Open Water cert. at the end of May. It's been just over a month and we have logged almost ten hours underwater. Our primary goal this year is to practice, practice, practice. Of course, the...