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Type A personality isn't your problem. :) it's you thinking that you are like everyone else! LASIK is a pretty safe procedure, but it still is surgery and it is traumatic to some very sensitive tissues. There is so much that is a factor on when your vision will heal up that you can't know...

We had almost every dive a "guest" with us, it was great as we got a chance to meet fellow divers from other parts of the country. I can't believe we are home now as we landed to snow and 20 degrees at the seattle airport on saturday. Now to nurse my bug bites....

for many women the diving thing is a give and take, but I too have seen the inequal balance. There are 3 couples in the store that drive me bananas with the overly protective hubby and the passive female who normally isn't passive in any part of their life. The men set up the gear, hover...

I say seriously consider the Oceanic GT3 non-dvt. A GT3, slimline octo, and 3 gauge console comes in at a tidy 470$ at our LDS, so it's very reasonable. The GT3's are solid regs, easy to breathe from at all recreational depths and upside down. We bought 2 sets for backups and have ended up...

We have a classic example of how it depends on the fabric and model at our house. Hubby and I have the same number of dives, same amount of pool time, and same level of care (soaking and washing after each dive). They are 2 years old and have 250-ish dives on them. Hubby's Black Diamond...

Oh geez, does anyone have more details? This is not turning out to be a good spring at all for the NW. All I heard on the radio was someone died, and AP is reporting this: By Associated Press STEILACOOM, Wash. (AP) - A man has drowned on a recreational scuba dive off Sunnyside Beach in this...

Nereas, Thanks for such a brilliant commentary, but you really should practice using your inside voice more often rather than giving in to the urge to share your genius with others. In the meantime we'll just have to carry our albatross, and suffer the joys of not stewing for hours in...

The Pinnacle Freedoms have been in rental now for a year in an area rife with rocks, barnacles, and other sharp things for new drysuit divers to find. And they have been used in every class for the past year as well. No holes in any of them, the fabric has been fantastic for puncture...

The biggest challenge we have is keeping things tidy while recharging the toys. if you dive 3x a week it seems like the "spot" for scooters and lights is crowded around an outlet, not in it's place on the rack. With scooters, can lights, camera, and "stuff" all needing to plug in for a...

Cheeses and Louises Lynne! I should have known that a DIR gal would be so organized.

Laura, Sign me up for one as well.... I'll pm my contact info. I'm tired of the crazed dash and the scared looking people in the loo. I was becoming concerned over the increased exertion after our dives where I'm running up the beach, flailing around trying to get out of the rig, not even...

Diving in Bremerton. You have Harper Dock in Port Orchard. You have Illahee State Park in Bremerton (camp/diveable) You have Brownsville public dock THose are the hot 3, abeit all are relatively shallow (under 50') and pretty flat. There was an old steamer that went down near waterman...

Nick, you are also welcome to mosey up to Port Townsend, a shorter run than Sund Rock. There are several going out on Saturday. PM if interested.

Oh geez. As my Bob the Fish T-shirt says. "Fish eat their own poop.... and it tastes like chicken" Worrying about if the regs are disinfected or not is a bit of a cart before the horse don't you think? The ocean is filled with metric tonnes of invert and vertebrate poop, decomposing...

I'm going to reserve judgement on the instructor until more details are provided. Confined water has a pretty common definition within each agency, and for many, confined water is defined as equivalent to pool clarity, shallow waters, and no hazards in the training area for a diver. There's...

You fill them with saline solution, so it's not too bad for the eyes.

I have a few free divers who use them, which is who they are for. I'm not a freediver, so I don't have the problems of "wasting" air to equalize my mask. :)

Truth is, mental fitness trumps all. It's not PC to say that stupid people shouldn't dive, but considering how many people dive beyond their skills and knowledge or profess knowledge based on anecdotal evidence, maybe we SHOULD limit diving to people with a minimum set of standards of mental...

Our LDS is different. You buy a dry suit, and never had one before, they do a pool and an open water dive or two open water dives with you. If you want the cert, then they do offer it, but it costs more.

I have the merino evolution base layer, and to keep it clean I wear a pair of thermals under it. So far I have been warmer in it than anything else including my weezle, Bare, or DC thinsulate suit. yes I wear a bit more lead, but at least I'm able to do the longer dives. Last weekend was...