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The divers that make me feel uncomfortable have often modified their kit. Two examples: Diver had added a shoulder dump valve to the wrist of his drysuit. Diver jumps in and is underweighted, has a feet inversion and generally unhappy dive. Extremely intelligent person, no common sense. Diver...

Breath in through the mouth and out through the nose. Repeat unitil diving is complete.

I recall being astounded at the cost of boat charges here in the UK-now we are looking at £45-50 per day. After the initial very steep learning curve I now accept the costs. New light head £150 = a bargain. I simply built diving into the annual budget and got on with things. Fortunately I can...

For me there is no line in the sand. I will happily dive on a single setup doing 3 or 4 dives a day on a liveaboard. However I prefer to use nitrox for this as I feel it to be safer. (Some consider nitrox as technical) I prefer to use a twinset for all my UK sea diving be it 20 metres, 30...

Having seen divers beeing dragged up by their smb when the line becomes snagged on the reel, I cannot see any sensible reason to clip on. Likewise when ascending having nearly been run over by a boat with ten minutes of deco to do, that could have been messy. I have a loop of bungy on my reel...

First open water dive put me swimming among the fishes. I loved it and knew that was the hobby/obsession for me. Dive two saw me assisting the Dive Master as her cylinder slid out away from her bcd. That kind of set the scene. Since then..... Lifted a narked diver from 45m Assisted several...

A.P.Valves Try here AP Valves have been doing this for a while now ;)

2003 Gozo (Malta) Buddy went deeper than the planned 30m depth, became seriously narked, and I had to dive down and collect her from 45m. On ascending to 25m I established that she was down to 40 bar, her dive watch was broken and that I had 15 min of deco. No idea what deco obligation she had...

Try here Suunto Diving World - Home I have been using a Suunto Vytec since 2002, with a gas transmitter since 2003. I think they are a great system. No troubles with the kit, and all the dives with gas consumption downloaded to my PC

New Scapa Scuba You might try here for hoods. This firm is based in the UK and has a rather good range of hoods, available in red; Tigger, Elvis, Nemo please select your choice. Safe diving

Might be worth having a look at the finning technique being used. Are the fins being used efficiently. Consider using frog kick finning rather than up and down fin kicks. Is sufficient thermal protection being worn to keep warm? We are all different in our needs. Consider a dive computer...

In the UK where poor vis is rather common it pays to research the dive site carefully. It can be quite worrying to deploy your dsmb and to find it has risen only 3m as you are actually inside the hold of a wreck. You then have to to find your way out. If we know that the viz will be poor we try...

Off the UK south coast the German navy generously left behind many U boat wreck sites for us to visit. ;) We also have some British subs as wreck sites. Given that penetration is either impossible or illegal (depending on the site) there are no special skills involved. The wreck might be a...

I have been using several regs of this combination for several years. I dive on trimix to 60m, Friday I will be diving to 35m in freshwater with temps of 6c, and sea diving on Sunday in the English Channel. Nuff said really :D

I had a hernia repair some six years ago. It was a success. :) Be prepared for quite a lot of discomfort for a week or two. In my case it took three months before the twinges stopped. My GP reckoned that the surgeon had had a good rummage about inside me when doing the repair. Here in the UK we...

Lets see now........ My twinset has Scubapro mk25 1st stages andS600 and R380. I use these down to 60m on trimix, dive all year round in temp down to 4c. My stage regulators are Scubapro mk2 and R380. The are basic regs that just perform without any issues. My single set used for instructing...

I don't see any radical changes to OC or CC technology. The physics won't change. Rebreathers will become more mainstream as the electronics are seen to become more reliable. This will enable more trimix diving to take place. A trimix fill in the UK costs £45-£75 (Say $90-150 USD) plus nitrox...

I prefer the discipline of planning my trimix dives using Proplanner. Then using a slate and managing the dive time on my Vytec in gauge mode.

Given that customers might waiting a while for gas fills then a drink vending facility, and somewhere to sit down is very handy. The ability to rebuild cylinder mixes saves time and money. ie not drain my twinset and fill from scratch. A large stock of small bits: hoses, o rings, D rings...

Arranging diving in Cuba from the UK is not always that easy. Some places do not have email or internet access, everything is state run, and timetables can be a loose arrangement. I was staying in the Varadero resort in Cuba and talking to the tour rep there were two diving options: Barracuda...