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I'd be willing to bet that if asked in a neutral situation about this, then she would have said that obviously you need ditchable weight. It's a very different situation when an instructor is telling you that something is safe, even if you think you might have been taught something else in the...

I'm not interested in engaging in your hostile form of communication, so this will be my last reply in the thread. If you don't want to come across as angry and upset, then I don't understand why you use such an excessive amount of exclamation marks and unnecessarily combative language. I have...

Oh absolutely. My point was just that certain types of diving require certain types of equipment. And that, despite using rather heavy tanks and thus a wing with a large lift capacity, I've never experienced the phenomenon of being pushed forward into the water. Actually, if I totally relax on...

I use 12L steel doubles + 1 or 2 stages on most of my dives, I need a wing that can support that. I don't think it would be very nice with a horse collar BC. However, despite being a fairly small person, I have never experienced being pushed forward in the water with my wing sufficiently...

That video is somewhat misleading as several of the plastic pieces are fluorescent which makes them fade a lot less than they really would. Reds should fade first, blues last, according to the colour spectrum.

White and yellow are good. My aqua coloured Fourth Element fins hold up really well too. Orange is usually ok, but they definitely fade faster than the aforementioned colours. Pink fades a lot quicker than the pink divers usually like to admit. The depth at which they fade depends entirely on...

That was not the case, the discussion was about how to mitigate risk and how it's done in high-risk industries. Even non divers would be able to deliver meaningful insights in that discussion, but when choosing to not disclose our personal diving experience, you wrote me and others off as...

I just find it every so slightly ironic that you've done that towards others in the past - discrediting their points because you made up things about them such as being beginner divers or other nonsense, which wasn't even remotely relevant to the topic discussed. I do agree that certain...

While Kattegat has one of the highest concentrations of wrecks in the world, most of them are fairly small and very deteriorated. Anything "spectacular" around Denmark is well beyond 18m depth. Norway has amazing diving, although most of the well preserved ww2 wrecks are, again, beyond the...

I'd say so. I knew I wanted to get into tech diving, and I've been diving doubles ever since my 12th post-OW dive. It didn't make sense to me to spend money on a single tank setup only to sell it at a big loss within a year. That was a good decision for me. Not only is diving with the local...

I'd ask them specifically if they have a women's suit that's your size. If they only have a men's (or unisex lol) suit with seals that fit you, you can dive it but you definitely won't love it. DIR valve placement is just further back towards the triceps rather than on the biceps. Makes it...

I took a peek at your profile and it says you're female. My own experience with rental drysuits as a woman has been extremely bad. My AOW course was totally ruined because every suit they put me in catastrophically flooded. All the seals were cut to fit a man. It was beyond uncomfortable, it was...

I don't see why not. I don't mind diving with people fresh out of an OW course. Helping others improve makes me a better diver too.

It did :) And that's fine, as I said in my first post, I wasn't in your class and my impression is based entirely off a few things in your posts. I just don't think it does you any good to acknowledge that you're struggling, and do nothing to correct it. And it seems like a disservice to simply...

But he didn't have the presence of mind to intervene and make you slow down and have a chance to pull yourself together? If it happened as explained here, I am not very impressed. Sorry. The instructor is meant to teach you and instruct you, not simply be there to evaluate your skills and let...

I'd be delighted to dive with anyone willing to work on their skills and try to improve. The only divers I generally try to stay away from are know-it-alls who stubbornly hold on to dangerous diving practices. I also think it's weird that you didn't get a provisional if you managed to work...

This is the only operator I know that ever does trips out there, and the few people I know who've been to those wrecks have gone with them. Based in Hirtshals, Denmark. It does not sound like they do regular trips there, but definitely sounds possible to set something up...

It was a pretty simple question that can be answered with a single post. But whatever.

Definitely good you didn't start pouring acidic fluid into the eyes. Given the circumstances, I think you did quite well. Technically the best would be to wash the eyes (and in this case face) with a solution of about 99% water and 1% salt, since that's roughly the salt concentration of tears...

Or maybe it just seems really out of place that you keep using a forum for scuba diving as a platform for your completely unfounded bashing of people younger than yourself, and your equally unfounded self-praising. It reminds me of another thread in which you tried to shoot down what I said...