Northwest Dive Club

I really like the Salvo lights and the Nite-Diver.com lights! :bounce: The Salvo I really like is only 11 scuba units!!! :bounce: My Salvo is my favorite piece of dive equipment. I have 30 or so dives on mine so far, and it has performed flawlessly. I have the 21w NIMH 14.4v remote head light (the ...

You call your credit card company to straighten out some scuba-related charges and they offer you a separate, unlimited, line of credit . . .

Not exactly a rack, but I use a Peet's boot dryer with PVC extensions to dry my drysuit:

http://www.peetshoedryer.com/

and ... here's a helpful hint for the ever-fogging mask. (i've tried all of the other nonsense - two brands of special anti-fogging drops, toothpaste, cursing and whining, etc.) the following ritual works for me 9 times out of 10: i spit in both lenses quite generously when i start getting my rig r...

GillyWeed, you've gotten tons of suggestions here, so take this for what it is worth. You certainly seem to be thinking things out, which I think is the core of being a safe diver. Is it possible, however, to chat with your buddy? It seems to me that people dive like that not because of some urge to...

If your buddy is 20 feet away from you, throw an OOA on them... I had this done to me the other day, when I got about 15 feet away from my buddy and pointed the other direction, and right when I was getting *very* uncomfortable about our positioning I got the flashing HID light of an OOA... I actua...

Halcyon Pro6 18w, located in Seattle and reasonably priced

http://thedecostop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21131

No affiliation with the seller, just saw what looks like a decent deal

#-o hmm ... that reminds me ... i should probably just go home and study for a class that - oddly enough - also happens to start tomorrow. :book: That means you are like, what, a week away from the mid-water nav dive? That one is fun! Bob, for a bag of chips, I'll come out and do my best imitation ...

I think that's interesting you put even MORE weight on your cam straps above the plate weights. Yeah, I've never experienced the head down situation, unless I put myself in that position by dropping my head . . . even with the doubles the other day, it wasn't an issue (and I expected it to be). I l...

Sounder- We have very similar singles rigs, I also have the 8 pound plates on a DSS rig. FWIW, in my cordura Northern Divers suit, I use 8 pounds on a belt, and then 3-5 pounds in those XS scuba pockets on my cam bands. I do have some of the 1 pound soft weights lying around, I actually liked them w...

I think that the issue is the oddity of the fact that if you calculate a tank factor (in cubic feet per 100 psi) for a 104 (at 2640 psi) and a 130 (at 3442/3500 psi) you get a different factor for each, despite them being dimensionally similar, if not the same. I think, IIRC, a 104 has a factor of a...

This thread and diving with an argon bottle on Wednesday is directly responsible for ~1.5 scuba units being transferred from myself to Matt at NWSD . . .

also, i heard/read two ways to do weighting - one is to do it at the surface with 500 psi left (in a normal 3000 psi al80); one is to do it with an "empty" tank at 20 feet. (i have also been given the impression that 500 psi should pretty much be considered "empty" since most sp...

Sounds like a good plan. BTW you don't necessarily need 300 bar manifold and I'd actually suggest getting 200 bar. Those are just slang terms, "200 bar" is totally adequate for 3442 psi HP cylinders. 300 bar valves can sometimes get dinged and the DIN fitting won't seal good when the thre...

CaptnJack- I agree, a couple inches can affect my trim, I also agree that 260 is a ton of backgas . . . What I may do is get my rig together, and try a friend's 95s. For me, the 119s trimmed out well, I'm going to try the 95s, see how they trim out-even though the tanks are the same size, I've seen ...

Check out: http://tdl.divebiz.net/pub/tanks.html This has the buoyancy characteristics of most tanks out there. Note that both a HP100 and a 130 are around -8 to -11 pounds negative, and a AL 80 swings from around -2 to +4. Based on that alone, if you were properly weighted with an AL 80 you can dro...

Thanks ScubaK and Lamont- As to the 119/130 question, do you find any difference in feet/down feet up trim? Reason I ask is that my 98s are sweet single tanks for me (very top heavy) and I shift a bit of weight around to accomplish the same balance with a 119 or 130. Bob's PST 119s trimmed out well,...

Sounds great... but enquiring minds want to know - was GD on a single the whole time matching psi for psi with you?! He can stay down on a LP95 for a week! I too look forward to exploring the realm of doubles in about a year or so. Well, I just calculated my RMV, it was up around 0.9, maybe a bit l...

Did my first dive with Bob (Grateful Diver, but you all know that) in doubles. I borrowed his whole rig, a Halcyon wing, and double 119s. We planned on a nice mellow dive at Cove 2, and ended up spending a bit of time around the Honey Bear. Impressions: These things give you a really, really stable ...

Gee, thanks everyone. All this talk of argon has gotten me interested . . . More money to spend. I have an extra first stage (Chris . . . the repo man may be coming), seems like all I need is a OPV, a way to mount the bottle and the bottle itself. Someone mentioned the lower pressure 14 cu bottles v...

The worst part was that we were the most inexperienced divers (my wife and I) in a group of 7... all who were on Al80's, all who had similar gas consumption, and all who didn't think twice about reserve for their buddy. We are all pretty fortunate to have the resources around here to learn otherwis...

Before spending money, I still suggest waiting for Bob's gas management seminar - free at Fed Way UWS. Good info for helping to make your decisions. Lord I've bought oddles of stuff which I've ebayed off because I learned it wasn't for me. Richard I'd second (or third) taking Bob's gas management s...

Have you seen the rebreathers they are selling? Talk about "please, kill me . . . "

Downright scary looking. From what I heard, a lot of this stuff "walked off" of old Soviet army bases. I bet it has been well maintained.

But my bottom time is more than 30 times what yours is ... at the rate you're improving, you'll probably be using less gas than me in a year or two ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver) One can only hope . . . Actually, where I think I have a higher RMV is at the beginning of the dive-it may be inflating th...

Answer (and not to ruin it for others): About 0.25-0.35 cu feet/min less than what my RMV is. Exactly what I got. My RMV actually dipped below 0.7 recently, people say it happens around 50 dives or so, and I'm approaching that, so I hope it keeps dropping. heh, I missed the "less than what my ...