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  1. sambolino44

    DIY Electric Undergarment

    I'm going to try to "electrify" my wife's drysuit undergarment. She showed me a thread on here with some tips on how to do it, but it was really for motorcycle clothing, not diving. The thing I'm looking for help with is the switch. I was hoping to find a rocker switch that I could mount into a...
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    Cylinders in cars

    I've seen several types of, and plans for, racks to hold cylinders in cars, but almost all of those are loose, with no real connection with the car. A common practice seems to be to just wedge the things into place. There seems to be no consideration of how the cylinders will act in a collision...
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    Mares Parts

    Anybody have a source for Mares parts? I need a cover assembly for an older Abyss, but it looks like a newer one will fit, too.
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    Smelly Air

    Have you ever detected any kind of odor in the air from your scuba tank?
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    E-log stamps

    I still keep a paper log book after 300 dives. (#301 night before last, woo hoo!), but I also enjoy the added features with the Smart Trak electronic database log that came with my Uwatec computer. As people move away from the paper log books to E-logs, we're losing one of the fun parts about...
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    Port McNeill Shore Dives

    Heading up to Port McNeill Oct 5-9. Anyone have any suggestions for good shore diving locations?
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    How to kick with Force Fins

    It's good to have efficient fins, but I try to arrange it so that I don't need to swim a lot. Usually I'm just gently flowing with the current, positioning my body relative to my buddy or the terrain, or maneuvering to get a look at (or photo of) something. I make headway, but it's not like I'm...
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    Going Sideways

    What do you do when you need to go sideways? I'm often drifting in a gentle current, not necessarily a drift dive because the current is not faster than I can swim, but still strong enough that you cannot just hold position without doing something. Let's say I'm facing a wall, looking at a...
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    Analyzer: Nitrox vs. CO

    Not being able to get everything I want now, I have to choose which things are more important and get them in order. Analyzers are more expensive than bolt snaps; I can't just plunk down $150 - $300 any time I feel like it. For either one of these, getting it wrong can be fatal, and it's a...
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    G11 vs. G10

    There must be something on this already, but nothing shows up in a search. Does anybody have any advice for someone considering either the G10 or the G11; which one is better for diving? I think I understand the argument about more megapixels in the G10, but a better processing system in the...
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    Roatan: 1st time report

    Just got back from my first trip to Roatan, and while the photos are still being sorted I thought I'd share a few first impressions. We were there two weeks (21 dives), and stayed at Chillies and dived with Native Sons. I'm very happy with that choice. I don't know much about the other...
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    Aborted Plan At Langley Marina

    I don't know how "near" of a miss you would call this, but the dive definitely did not go as planned. I hope we learn some lessons from this one. The plan was to do a deep dive, to 90 fsw. We calculated our turn pressure would be higher than rock bottom, and used the largest cylinders...
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    "neutral" trim

    My buddy is under the impression that it's possible to set up your rig (by rig I mean the whole kit of dive gear including BC, weight belt, everything) so that your trim is completely neutral. What I mean by neutral trim is that there is no particular orientation that is predominate; in other...
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    O-rings for LP hose swivels

    How can I find out what size of O-rings go in the universal swivel on my LP hose? It's marked "OmniSwivel International".
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    Invisible Fins

    I love my green Tan Delta Force Fins! There's just something about that translucent material that is just so much cooler than my first pair, regular yellow. I've always wondered, though, what would it be like if they were completely without any color at all; clear? Can you make them like...
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    Desiccant: High or Low?

    We have a very small place, and a very small bathroom where we hang our dive gear out to dry. I've been using calcium carbonate desiccant in one of those pots that suspends the desiccant over a tub to collect the water it pulls out of the air. I know that hot air rises, but also that humid air...
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    Is Neoprene really Compressed?

    I've been doing some casual internet research on neoprene and, like a lot of things, it looks like there's a lot of vague terminology, conflicting information, and commonly-misused words. It seems to me that "compressed neoprene" is not ever really compressed in the way that I would imagine...
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    Baja on the Cheap

    I've never done a "dive vacation" before; I've only gone diving a few times on the overseas trips I've taken. Now, though, my wife is also certified and we go diving locally all the time, so for our next big vacation trip we want to try to get as much diving in as we can. However, there's no way...
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    smelly air

    I did a quick search on this with no results. I recently experienced something for the first time: a strong smell in the air from my cylinder. It was an aluminum 80 rented from a shop I've never been to before, and the smell was not something I could definitely identify; it smelled like...
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    Rote Learning vs. Understanding Concepts

    My dive buddy recently asked me the best way to hold the console over the 1st stage when opening the valve. My attempt to explain got the sore retort, "I don't have time for a long explanation, just tell me what to do!" I was, however, able to prevail enough to get her to listen to what's going...
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