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Love my LP50s for shorter/shallow dives. I'm finally getting the chance to bring them on a liveaboard in June, which is why I got them in the first place (wrestling with dual HP100s on a liveaboard is rough, not to mention overkill for hour-long dives). Very exciting.

Mostly a cold water diver here, too (frequently down to 39F). My typical setup is the xdeep stealth with a pair of faber hp100s and deep 6 regs on each. I most jump into Lake Tahoe, though I frequently drive to the Monterey area, and I wear a drysuit year round. I recently used the same setup in...

I switched to her nano Sideslides recently and love them! I'd been using the Dive Rite sliding d-rings, but they were starting to chew up the webbing. They worked for heavy steels, though, unlike several other options I tried first.

When you remove the wrist strap on the Quad, you'll see four eye-holes that accept 3mm bungee. That's how I mounted mine, and it worked well.

I dive steels with my Stealth almost exclusively. Typically HP100s, but also LP85s and LP50s. Personally, I don't use the drop D's for clipping the primary tanks at all (stages and deco/O2 bottles, I do). I have two fixed D rings, one right next to each drop D on my waist, that I start the dive...

One of the biggest things for me was figuring out how to do everything with a light on one hand and held steady. Switching regs (sidemount), mask clearing, laying line, dumping air from the wing, and other things I'd either practiced a bunch or was very familiar with all became more complicated.

Love my Deep 6 regs for everything—warm, cold, sidemount, doubles, even the ever-demanding single tank backmount resort diving. Been diving them for four years and a few hundred dives now. Started with Scribble (Excursion now) first stages and Signature seconds, and upgraded to Signature first...

Not the case here, the opposite, in fact. The other shop in town farms out to them. They're just constantly that backed up.

Shout out to Deep 6 for the lightning fast turnaround on my regs. My LDS currently has like a 6 week wait on servicing, and let's just say they didn't do an amazing job with the second stages last time. Deep 6 received my regs Monday. Today is Thursday (morning!), and I just got the invoice and...

I recently switched to Audrey Cudel's Nano-slides, and I'm loving them. The Dive Rite ones were chewing up my webbing. Definitely pricey to get the Nano-slides shipped from Malta, but they've been great with AL80s in warm water and HP100s in the cold. Big fan.

It fits through the semi-triangular hole in the "tail double D" to secure the bottom of the wing to the crotch strap. Edit: See this page: DECO Tail Double Dee Wing Lock

Now that's ingenuity

Anyone used the Northern Diver Universal Helmet Mount? They're less than half the cost of the Razor version (not including whatever shipping across the pond ends up being). Other Northern Diver products don't get the greatest reviews, but this seems like a fairly straightforward design. Just...

Saw a few thousand fish in Tahoe yesterday (Mackinaw and Lahontan cutthroat trout, huge schools of juvenile trout of different varieties and Lahontan redside shiners, speckled dace, and even a Paiute sculpin), as well as some pretty epic granite walls. Low of 48F at 120'. Saturday was largely...

Is this true of the whole area or just much of it?

Okay, the publisher is out of copies, but she put me in touch with Bruce Watkins himself, who gave me a list of shops who might have it still. Time to make some phone calls!

Thanks! I have not, but it's now on my list of things to do today done. Fingers crossed.

Trying to track down a copy of Bruce Watkins' A Diver's Guide to Northern California. Give me a holler if you've got one you'd be willing to part with. Thanks!

With pleasure. Can you recommend some good shore-accessible kelp forests? Entry doesn't have to be easy, just possible. You've mentioned Arena Rock elsewhere on SB. Is the only way out there with a boat? If so, is anyone taking divers out there? Can any boats nearby be privately chartered as a...

This past Sunday at Steller Cove (D.L. Bliss), it was almost 70° right at the surface, 44° down past 100', and an average of 55°. Pretty nice! The fish are out, too.