Lots of really good advice above. If you are diving a single tank here's some more advice. Turn the tank valve handle 45 degrees toward you in your BPW/BCD. You may not be able to do this unless you have a turret first stage or your hose arrangement allows this. If you can, the valve will be...
Ah ok I think I misunderstood your post thinking you were still tipping forward and trying to fix it. Yea everyone's different. Jet fins make me foot heavy even in a 7mm no matter how else I trim my shoulder weight so they are reserved for a drysuit only. Tough to trim anything in steel doubles...
Regs and manifold are heavy and that's noticeable when you are only diving a 3mm. Make sure you have a neutral rig because a large roving air bubble in the wing can do weird things. Are you using a steel plate? that could be adding more weight up top. There's also the possibility that you are...
I dive LP85s with a Kidex plate and zero lead. 40# wing and drysuit in 50's water. Still back heavy so a few trim pounds in front is useful for trim. Either way, dive a balanced rig first and wing size is less a issue.
There are lots of people with 500-1000 dives who don't pass Fundies. It's a humbling experience even when you do pass. The real question is whether you learned stuff. If you did, that's success. If you want to learn more, try again after practicing. That means just diving and enjoying yourself...
Lots of divers will never want to teach but want to take their diving beyond instructing ow. The more complex those dives become, the more safety and training needs to be built in. It's a path to something else. Those skills can be used in all areas of diving as well as building logically.
I dive both and my spg reads bar and psi. I live in the USA but would instantly switch to metric to simplify. It's actually a concession that gue has made in standardization IMO. There are of course many threads on this so off topic but worth considering for any advanced diver. Even in ow you...
If you are planning on going beyond fundies you might consider switching to metric as the calculations are quicker when doing them in your head and underwater.
I blame ow instructors in the USA for teaching imperial and handing out an imperial spg. ow students can estimate a yard as easy as a foot. Everything else is new to them anyway.
12600 batteries for the Galileo are getting rare and pricey. Anybody ever tried stacking two N batteries instead? They are 1.5V each and half the length of a 60mm.
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