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Someone near me has this tank for sale that looks to be brand new. If it's only TC stamped and not DOT, am I going to have trouble getting it filled and inspected in the US? Also, is the weird size not worth messing with? My wife is the air hog that limits the length of our dives so she should...

I want to compare costs on dive accident insurance for our first big dive trip to Curacao in June. I got a cost for Dive Assure on their website but DAN won't let me get pricing without joining first. I'd like to see costs for either option before committing. Am I missing something on their...

Anyone want to guess what second stage this is? I want to understand better how these things work even if all I ever do is adjust them. Eventually I want to take @rsingler 's course but for now I'm satisfied to tear apart some well used regs. So I bought a poorly cared for first with two...

All my regs so far don't have them. I thought I should give them a try so I picked up a pair of ScubaPro MK25 regs. My understanding is the rotating turret helps reduce mouth strain from tugging on hoses. These move smoothly so I think they are fine but I find it hard to believe they are going...

We tried to go this year for our 25th anniversary and had a great flight worked out both ways. Five days later, one leg going down got cancelled and everything fell apart. I know starting from Albuquerque only adds to our challenge but everything has excessive layovers. Is there a particular day...

I just read my third trip report in the last few weeks about a liveaboard in the Sea of Cortez that still has not fixed the air conditioning on some decks and now has a plumbing problem. I'm curious what kind of schedules to do most operators have for leaving a boat offline for maintenance. I...

I picked up a pair of Deep6 Signature 2nds here on the board last year and I'm finally putting them together with the first stage I got from Deep6. Of course my nosy, hairy Great Pyrenees had to come over and inspect what I'm doing. Naturally I reached down and scratched her head and ruffled her...

My wife and I are starting to make plans for our 25th anniversary trip next year. As recently certified divers (2020) we have decided to make it a diving trip. We considered several live aboards but decided land-based would be best for now and after reading reviews here on SB have chosen Roatan...

I bought a few of these hangers during a Christmas sale a few years ago and have just been hanging wetsuits on them. Does anyone successfully use them for hanging regs? I figured out the large hole directly under the hanger hook will accept the threads of a DIN reg and the lobe under that will...

What does everyone store and pack their palm-sized dive lights in? My wife's light came with a foam clam-shell zipper case that also holds the charger but the other two lights I bought did not have a case or pouch of any kind. I'd like to keep them from getting dinged up in my dive bag or...

Thursday, March 3, 2022, the Mexican government sank the retired navy ship Santos P106 in a bay near San Carlos/Guaymas, Sonora, to create an artificial reef and interesting dive site for local divers. The 220 foot ship was a WW-II US navy minesweeper known as the USS Gladiator and was sold to...

I just wanted to commend them on excellent customer service. I ordered a longer corrugated hose and matching inflator hose for my OMS wing several hours after normal business hours last Saturday night and chose the cheapest USPS delivery. My items were promptly shipped Monday morning and...

My wife and I stopped in a resale shop today looking for some clothes for her and we ran across a mint condition Bare Aqualite full wetsuit. It fit her perfectly (and looked pretty darn sexy too, I might add :eyebrow:) so we bought it for $29. There are no markings anywhere that indicate the...

I'm still a new diver and very new to BPW use. I had never heard of them until joining Scubaboard last year but after reading about them here and seeing one in use I picked one up from the classifieds here in SB for a good price. It's an aluminum plate with 32# wing. I took it into salt water...

A gentleman near me has some vintage 1990 tanks for sale. They appear to be in good shape from the one photo I've seen. He describes them as barely used, still full, not used since early 1990 when illness forced him to quit diving. They are aluminum, HP, unknown brand at this time. I'm going to...

I was digging our dive gear out of the closet in the guest room just to inventory everything, check batteries in the dive computers and get the regs together for service before our anticipated trip to Sea of Cortez in April. When I pulled out two bags of dive gear I found my wife's brand new...

My wife and I finished our OW cert dives at New Mexico's Blue Hole in Santa Rosa last weekend. Everyone was careful to spend sufficient time packing gear away after the last dive to put us into dive group C (almost B) before leaving to head home. From Blue Hole (@4600 ft) everyone returning to...

Is it a good idea to have one as a backup in case my dive computer goes out? I post this here rather than the gauges section because I'm beginning to shop around for my first reg set and I'm considering options from Deep6 and HOG because I like the idea of learning to service them myself some...

I never heard of BP/W until I joined Scubaboard a few weeks ago. Now I'm intrigued. My wife and I are in the process of getting OW certified and have gathered all our needed dive gear except BCD, regulators and tanks. We have spent enough $$ this year on certification and the gear we have so we...

The altitude settings for my Cressi dive computer are listed in meters in the manual, Setting zero covers 0-700 meters (2296 feet) Setting 1 is 700-1500 meters (up to 4921 feet) Setting 2 is 1500-2400 meters (up to 7874 feet) Setting 3 is 2400-3700 meters (up to 12139 feet) To make it easier...