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I can only recall seeing one diver using something like that, and that was for the above-mentioned specialized distance shot or angle. I just can't imagine someone using it to take a selfie, at least not on the charters around my area, because they'd probably get laughed off of the boat...

Not a bad idea, sales classes. Always nice to visit a dive shop where the owner/staff pay some attention to me, but it's even better when they know the business and try to give me the best value for my money instead of just trying to get as much money as possible out of me regardless of what I...

Loop is fine with me.

I've been to Placencia Village, Belize, so I can give you an opinion on that. I spent a couple of weeks diving with Splash Dive Center and had a great time, some great dives. We did make a trip to the Blue Hole, but from Placencia Village it's a long boat ride ride(about 4 hours if I remember...

I currently own the Lavacore vest, owned the Pinnacle merino-lined hooded vest in the past. I used the Pinnacle in Florida and at the Socorro Islands under a 3mm and was happy with it. When it finally started falling apart I got the Lavacore and have used it in Belize under the 3mm and I'm...

i've tried it both ways, and settled on mask over hood, probably for some sort of convenience's sake. I think everyone i dive with does mask over hood as well.

regulator once, and hood once. the ice-cream headache was exquisite.

i guess i can see it being useful if your drysuit hose stops working for whatever reason and you wanted to swap them, and just aborting the dive and ascending wasn't the immediate option?

this might be worth checking into: Great Lakes WATER Institute Its the great lakes, not the inland stuff, but it might be worth checking out.

soft weights and a rattler for signalling. soft weights:so far the solid weights work just fine in my configurations and they're cheaper. rattler: diving the cold stuff, nobody can hear the thing because of the thick hoods.

nice. i've started to experiment with the same ideas using cable ties, and seeing what the rubbing against the plate does with it over a few dives.

I rigged mine up with a DSS 30 lb wing and also with a Diverite trek wing and they both should work out fine. Really nice work on these, Eric.

i've got both steel and aluminum tanks, and my primary motivator for getting the aluminums was the price difference.

yowza, i thought i was being a manly man when i did ice dives in a 7mm. 45f with a 3mm gives a whole new meaning to "cold-tolerant". can't wait for the report on this experience.

Looks like this is worth checking out. 12mm sounds nice and toasty, and that style for the drysuit looks better than what I currently go with.

i was using a pinnacle hooded vest under my 7mm when i was still diving wet, and it worked out pretty well. not as well as dry when it gets really cold, but i managed until i got my dry suit. i think it was a 3mm with that merino lining (not sure if that makes a big difference or not, maybe...

this is a fun exercise: 1. forgot my hood on a L. Michigan dive (and then actually tried to do the dive, lasted about 30 seconds before screaming ICE CREAM!!!!!) 2. splashed twice off a boat without my fins. 3. splashed in once without my weights. 4. tried to put my wetsuit on backwards...

Hey, who are you calling 'skinny'?!?!?! I know it ain't FW, because he manages to come up with more air than he jumps in with.

If a PADI rep could jump in here and list the reasons why those open water dives at the end of the open water cert are actually done in open water rather than a pool then it'd probably answer the question. I did my open water certification dives in Bonaire under just about the most ideal...

I've never been bothered by people saying they've got such and such certification and they know what they're doing. I haven't heard that more than a couple of times anyway. I think it'd be worth a chuckle to hear it, but that's about it. I think formal training can definitely serve a purpose...