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Looks like a good little backup light or something to keep in your pocket on daylight dives. I got, and would recommend, the Princeton adventure pack. They make a package with an LED primary, but I got the halogen, and it's adequate to my needs for now. For about $100 you get a halogen...

Holy cow, everyone was typing at once. Really wasted my "breath" on that post.

Yes, there is "special" equipment and education that you need. First, the obvious: lights. Notice that's pleural. At least two. Personally I always carry a small hand light when I dive, even during the day, because you never know when you might want to peek into some little nook or cranny and...

Hi everyone! I recently moved to NC from PA and I'm looking for some local dive buddies as well as some input on dive sites and such. Basically anything you can tell me. I'm living in the Elizabeth City area, so anyone local please feel free to PM me and maybe we can go put in some bottom time.

Better than dying doing something you hate. My condolences to his family and friends, and please take solace in the fact he passed doing something about which he was apaprently very passionate. May choirs of angels sing him to his rest.

Not really a stupid thing heard, but funny for us at the time... My buddy and I had just finished a muck dive at a SW PA park and were stripping out of our gear when this little girl walked past looking at us all wide eyed and asked what we were doing. We said we were diving, to which she...

... who has suffered a neoprene related injury. It was my fourth OW cert dive. Apparently I was doing ok because the DM and I were just "strolling" along the western bank of the quarry, relaxed, headed south back to the dock, when I paused to look at something on the bottom. He evidently...

I contacted Ed Hayes the other day and had a fantastic discussion with him. The class at Dutch Springs isn't going to work for me, but I was considering traveling to CT to train. However, if we had enough people interested and can get him or another GUE instructor to set up a class with us...

I am also interested in a GUE-F class and am in the Pittsburgh area. Is this the beginning of a trend? Any others, so we can make a class happen soon?

Granted I read through this thread quickly, but although everyone makes salient points regarding task loading and anxiety and MOD, something else jumps out at me right away. Perhaps it is because of my profession that I focused on it, but the fact you said your ears hurt AND STILL DO, worries...

That's good you recognized your anxiety and were able to overcome it. Hitchhiker's Guide hit it on the nose with its advice... DON'T PANIC. I had some anxiety my first post-class dive, too. Luckily I was with a good friend who has hundreds of dives under his belt and was willing to take it...

Hi everyone. I've read several posts by running across them on search engines, and finally decided I'd better just register with the board. I only certified as an open water diver at the end of May, but got addicted and have been diving and reading about diving and talking about diving with...

I had no pain but had a "clogged" feeling that wouldn't go away for several days, so I made an ENT appointment. Eustacian tube dysfunction was the diagnosis. After a six day steroid taper and ten days of pseudoephedrine/guaifenesin, I was right as rain. Every so often I have to slow down to...