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I don't have any experience with that, but I would expect these problems on my very first wet suit dive (with doubles): - Slightly head heavy at the beginning of the dive when tanks are full without an option to compensate for it by suit; worse trim - More gas in wing compared to distribution...

I started diving D12 when I had 38 dives (because I wanted to have more gas supply for 30 meters wreck dives) and had much more questions, such: - What hoses go to the right and the left post and why? - Does hose routing matter? What are options here and which of them are better and why? - Where...

I don't know where do you live, but in cold countries it is completely normal that OWD classes are run together with dry suit classes because it is not possible to dive wet suits here either during a summer. Rental dry suits are common here, too. Dry suit is definitely not a tool just for...

Hello divers! A long story short; my first dive hood was a wrong size (too big) Mares something 5 mm. I experienced no jaw fatigue when using it but if was damn cold experience. So I changed it to Bare Ultrawarm 7 mm which was a way wormer, however I started to have problems with jaw fatigue...

I have no experience with overhead environment so will be writing about OW only. I also used to have a problem with this and the following helped me: 1) In case you dive often in area with lot of boat traffic, practise SMB deployment beforehand so you become confident in doing it. That will...

Thanks a lot for many useful advices to all of you, I really appreciate it!

Truth. Thanks for giving it into this perspective, I have something to think about again :) I like GUE and don't see any reason why not to proceed with their education. T1 will give me exactly what I want + it would take more courses from other organisations to get there + I don't trust the...

I can do T1 dives locally with good access to both helium fills and boat trips (approx 30 minutes driving from home). I expect 10-20 trimix dives per year and 80-100 rec dives per year (pandemy or not, doesn't matter - 90 % of my diving is local diving). With renting D12 for trimix fills I will...

That's what I have been doing for the past three years :-) Regarding the equipment, I have my own tech gear but it needs some upgrades; foremost I need a new dry suit so I can have more layers of undergarment so I am not cold on longer dives. My current dry suit is too tight for that. Heating...

I know about this. John Chatterton is for sure one of the best wreck divers and I have been considering a lot taking this course with him - the reason why I am hesitant is that I know he has very specific approach to team diving and he promotes that every diver should be foremost an independent...

Ha! Quite old thread, I know, but wanted to write here a follow up for others in case somebody finds it and reads it whenever later. I found this out only partially truth - yes, during the training for tech pass I understood many other things about diving. But my knowledge about GUE and other...

Does anybody have an experience with http://www.sharkdivegear.com? I was trying to find more information about them but couldn't find almost anything except what do they have on Facebook.

Thank you guys for so many tips! Will try some of them the next time and will post here an update with review :)

Hello divers! Air temperatures are dropping bellow 0 °C/32 °F these days, there can be ice and snow on the land. I don't have any problems with cold feet in the water (which is about 6 °C/43 °F) - I can do first dive 50-60 minutes without any problem. However, I cannot stand the cold during...

O_o ush, I see. Thanks for an information :)

I know very little about SwedTech - read about the agency on this forum, did some reserach and didn't find much information. Do you have some experience with them? Would love to hear more :)

Thanks ginti, I appreciete your input! :) Happy diving, maybe we will meet one day on advanced wreck course ;)

Ok, just to be clear: I don't want to do T1 with any other agency. Whatever the tech pass will take it will take it, I don't care - want to be fully prepared before jumping into tech diving. I believe GUE instructors provide very honest, direct and detailed feedback about your performance. I...

That's not completely true, T1 can be done even in cave if you are already cave certified. Anyway, as I wrote already, I fully understand that T1 is not a wreck or overhead course, I want to do this course mianly to be able to dive deeper wrecks :wink: That's obvious - I cannot do tech courses...

Hey! Yeah, I did Fundies with Per :-) Already have recommendatios for both Annika and Mattias, I haven't decided yet but would like to do Tech 1 with one of them and ideally in Åland! Which path did you take and why you decided for it if I may ask?