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That just sounded funny to me. I'm curious to know how many missions he is talking about and how many more will it take to figure out the appropriate amount of supplies.

Oh haha, thats not to rest your thumb on it, that’s a scooter thumb loop. It is made so that you can move the light to your right hand and hold it facing forward while remaining on the trigger driving the scooter. There’s a standard size and a cold water (thick gloves/dry gloves) dry suit size...

What’s a dry suit thumb loop?

Never. I always use a full 3mm at a minimum. I have never, ever been too warm underwater, but I use a full suit for reasons other than thermal protection also. You don't have to, dive whatever way you feel comfortable.

Yeah, OW practice will go a long way. When I started using DPV I knew it eventually would end up in a cave (I wasn't cave certified yet), so I'd do the best I could to mimic scootering in a cave and see where I was in handling skill wise. I'd scooter as close to the bottom as possible and do...

I believe the principle cause is temperature of the gases, don't quote me on that, I could be misremembering, a search here may bring it up, I think it has been discussed before. But basically the different gases end up with different temperatures, He being lower than O2 and N2, which right...

I may have tried flipping the order of the gases, can't remember. But my logical mind definitely prompted me to "blast" the air in last to mix everything, it did not do the trick however.

It most definitely makes a difference a certain scenarios. Partial pressure mixing trimix for example will change the readings on the analyzer right in front of your eyes, drastically, by drastically I mean 10% + variance in less than a minute. Can't say that every fill will have that effect...

Boat ran over my flag and I lost my manta reel and reef hook. What I really need help is replacing the reef hook. It was 3 pieces of spearshaft where the prong is located, welded back to back, so that you could fold the prongs when not in use, super neat. I had bought it a long time ago from a...

What I read from this is, your son had such poor quality of training that it made you uncomfortable letting him do deepish dives. Because he had such poor quality of training, you therefore concluded that no training at all is needed to do shallow dives. A famous diver wrote an article once...

I see about 1500 cylinders yearly, not an estimate, a verified number through the logs, not counting the rental fleet which accounts for another several hundreds, for the last ~10 years. I have never seen failure due to lube, and every single one of them gets lubed. 99% of tanks from other...

Right, see third paragraph I wrote from the post you quoted me.

I think it has to do with what you wrote earlier, about proper installation. My belief is that if a dab of lube were applied in the threads and this retailer did nothing different, there would be no problem removing those valves. Or they could apply a different technique installing the valves...

Or not putting any lube on the valve. There’s a retailer here in SFL insisting in not using ANY lube on the valve threads, good luck removing that valve a year later.

A tank blew up in Ft Lauderdale when someone tried that believing the tank was empty. The tank had O2 in it, not knowing a thing about these tanks, I wouldn’t attempt that.

Non sense. Where did you get this info from? Tanks will be in service until they fail inspections, there's no time limit on it.

Wanted to post the video, illustrates it better, but looks like can’t post videos directly here, so had to grab a screen shot off of the video. Pretty obvious which beam is the Focus, I mean, you can see the Focus beam right? ;) This is the difference, it’s like a “wireless light”. Turn the...

I went from a Halcyon LED EOS at first, hated the backscatter illumination in front of my face. Switched to a Halcyon HID, made a tremendous difference, but still, even though it penetrated through the water much further than the LED, it still produced some backscatter, beautiful blue hue, I...

Garmin. I think the Shearwater still has a bit of an edge over the Garmins speaking solely about the dive computer function, but the Garmin far outdo the Shearwater as an overall product. I dive both, and even a 3rd. If it’s tech/CCR I’m diving a shearwater, I have a petrel hardwired and a...

Savannah is the best city in FL to move to. The good diving goes from Jupiter on south, the lower cost of living goes from Jupiter on north, figure out how much driving you're willing to do to dive regularly, but it definitely ain't low cost to live here, specially since pandemic, everyone...