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I suppose I would have been smart to post this a week or more ago. Then again, I ran into travel issues, so I'm glad I didn't arrange a bunch of dives for the first few days that I thought I'd be in Florida. In any case, I'm now in Florida, and hope to do some diving. None of my buddies from...

I'm not sure if my current marker lights officially belongs in the "Do It Yourself > Making Your Own Gear" forum or not.... I'm just using an existing light, underwater. I've been using those cheap keyring LED lights, as a marker light. I drop one in a ziplock sandwich bag. Squeaze out he...

I'm planning to build my own cannister light, and think I want to go as simple as possible. I've seen a lot of designs for battery cannisters, with latches etc. If I build the cannister with exposed charging studs, would I ever need to open the cannister (before the batteries died)? The only...

I just got back from a dive vacation, and although it was a fairly good time... the dive operation managed to end the week on a sour note. Not a "big" thing, it was ten bucks, but sometimes the principle counts for something. I was with a group of 17 divers, and about 6 non-divers. We'd...

I was reading about some FA & Mi lights that say they get 18 hours or runtime from 4 AA batteries in an 18 watt light. That sounded way off to me. The site also mentions lights that are up to 90 watts for an array of 6 LEDs. Perhaps they mean "equivalent light", not actual power usage ...but...

I've wanted a DPV since I first saw one in a James Bond movie. I know there are some pretty good DPVs out there, but I don't want to spend over $1000. for something that's too expensive for my buddies to buy, or too heavy to bring on trips. I've been seeing Sea-Doo scooters for around $700...

Does anyone know if http://www.cadive.com/ closed? I had a reminder on my calendar that they were having a sale this weekend. I just tried their webpage, and get errors the site is down.

Did I miss this on Scuba Board? I didn't see anything about it. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/25/MN309974.DTL The basics of the article (but of course you should READ IT) is that the Aladin computers figure your surface interval as if you were...

I'm going to guess that it's deep, but I didn't find out how deep.... Did anyone know there is an aircraft carrier off the CA coast...

The foot pocket of an Oceanic V12 has a closed toe. Any water scooped in next to my boots would tend to drag. The fins have a pair of 1/2" drain holes on the bottom at the toe. I was thinking I might add some more holes. Is there a downside to drilling the foot pocket? Would I somehow be...

A buddy has a US Divers aluminum 80 that he'd like to sell to me for $35. It was last hydro tested about 5 years ago, and first hydro tested in '86. I was wondering if this might be one of the tanks made of the undesirable aluminum. Does anyone know if Luxfer was the manufacturer of US Divers...

I'm thinking of buying a used tank. I think it's a steel 120, but the seller doesn't seem to have much information on the tank. The cylinder is stamped "roth 2002/86909ps232bar ts-30+60 c m25x62 pt 348 bar2002/3 v15L 18.3 kg dive air ce0062". There isn't any inspection sticker on the tank...

I'm fairly new to SCUBA (less than 30 dives), but have already tumbled down the road of buying all my own gear. All I have left to get (for required gear) is a tank. (I wouldn't be surprised if, after time, I discover additional things to buy. :$: ) Most of the downside I'm hearing about...