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Just came back from Maldives. I spoke to locals and the guide with a direct connection said the article was widely blown out of proportions. No emergency, different atoll actually, donny wasn’t that far but the coast guard showed up somehow and attempted to pick up divers.

'Saul Goodman' I'd like to quote but where I like to dive - the Red Sea Egypt - there are some rules and regs and so if diver gets missing it's like the end of the week for everyone. I am fortunate that I dive on a boat where I know boat owner and they know me so when there is a coral garden...

I think diving solo requires side mount (best trim) or a double with isolation valve or a pony which can get the diver safely from a target depth. I think diving solo is perfectly fine when solo diver doesn't dive off a boat with other divers for whom the solo diver disappearance may spoil...

Nice find. I did look at this when researching side mounts. Recent version of TS is far far away from what have been shown as 'TS inspired' on the video. I'd like to say - as someone who tried to butcher the system after initial dives and then came back to its original form - that I found that...

Thanks for heads up on Perdix. I have read the manual now. While Ratio AI (in Perdix language) has more advanced features and integration (dedicated SM mode, total GTR based on both SM cylinders, possibility to use more than two cylinders and different mixes) the communication setup of Perdix...

Down in Malawi I am limited to 12l cylinders and I can’t have them assembled to double. I was thinking of making a bracket have 2 identical cylinders on the back with independent valves and regulators, pretty much like Toddy on the back. But when discovering TS SM I appreciated the simplicity of...

I would quote Morpheus: 'there is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path'. My path is simply different then yours and for some reason you can't see it. Diving 20 years in caves is fine but it does nothing for you if one day you surface on a safari boat under different...

Documenting cichlids life in lake Malawi and realising at 40m depth that I am all alone, the hoses or primary stage could fail and I am all alone and the the nearest hyperbaric chamber is half continent away. If I get a heart attack or stroke so be it and I am done in any case. Anything else I...

Thanks for feedback, really. Please dismiss the marketing, I made this unsolicited as a proof of concept of how a training video for specific market (open water solo photogs) may look like for a friend of mine who happens to dive for over 25 years, is a certified instructor for Toddy and happens...

tbone’s answer set me off… I do look for an input. Not on myself but on the idea of a SM setup on a safari boat. Try to search YouTube for this and you won’t find answers. So people keep using what is known to them in their answers and not what’s addressing the problem. Like the BS with SPGs...

Sorry sorry 40bars were meant not PSIs... The double neck mount ok for boat entry but not zodiak - dinghy or whatever name people use. At least in my experience in calm red sea waters with one hand needed to care for camera equipment.

Yes, I am sorry, 40bars of course. Each cylinder has 2 mounting points - upper bungee under armpit and middle of the tank through bungee-connected bolt snap. That's why the position stays the same and you need to deal only with the buoyancy difference. Look at the mounting part of video closely...

Man-o-man you must have the day today :-). When I asked for not being to hard on me I meant it in positive direction! Not negative! Okay. First. Too many SPGs on hoses? Are you kidding me? On a safari boat with 4 dives per day? How on earth would you like to check on the cylinder refills before...

I totally agree there. This setup might prove cumbersome in case of Zodiac entry on heavy seas on Galapagos islands. For that it's actually beneficial that Toddy design allows for an easy conversion to a back mounted single cylinder setup. Just one small extra aluminium plate to carry on the...

In my experience once I got below 120ish on left (main) cylinder I noticed quite a bit of disbalance. So I would recommend micro switching every 40psi max. for perfect trim. The position of cylinders stays the same as they are on bungies. No need to reclip or anything. I will address others...

Please don't be too hard on me, just 150 dives over past 3 years and fairly new to a side mount. I am a photo/video person so when I dive I am typically left behind which led me to a need for spare air. Which led me to side mount which led me to Toddy. After practicing it a little bit I became...

I think that name is 'assisted suicide' or more accurately a 'murder by consequence'. I wonder whether a prison time would be warranted for named instructor to meditate over life choices and responsibilities... In my opinion the business operators bear a monetary responsibility for operating...

I can see court injunction preventing the rest of these boats from operating. I can see USCG revoking their certification making second look at the interpretation of ‘means of exit’. I can see criminal negligence lawsuit involving the owners of the boat for operating the boat that ‘on a facade’...

Makes no sense to me... they didn’t make it there just and only because the common area was engulfed in flames and no mean of escape was available as both lead to the same space.

"‘A compliant fire trap’ John McDevitt, a former assistant fire chief from Pennsylvania, an accredited marine surveyor and the chair of a National Fire Protection Assn. committee on commercial and pleasure boat fire protection, questioned why both egress points – the stairwell and the hatch –...