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- Sat Jun 16, 2012 7:37 pm
- Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade Dive Gear
- Topic: Dry suit exhaust valve
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1394
Re: Dry suit exhaust valve
Definitely go with Si-Tech. They dump faster and they don't leak.
- Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:34 pm
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: Divinghe PBM Mariner - Anyone Done This Dive
- Replies: 61
- Views: 6070
Re: Divinghe PBM Mariner - Anyone Done This Dive
CapnJack, this thread is in dive planning, and i happen to be going on this dive (assuming phil lets me on his boat! :rofl: ). So i dont think there is anything wrong with trying to have a hand in planning it, especially since i want to get experience planning dives to sites i have not been to. I d...
- Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:27 pm
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: Divinghe PBM Mariner - Anyone Done This Dive
- Replies: 61
- Views: 6070
Re: Divinghe PBM Mariner - Anyone Done This Dive
I was thinking it might be a good idea to drop a line down in the general location, then run a reel out in an expanding spiral until the plane is found. Then tie it off on something at the plane Dropping a line in the general location is good, as is a search, if needed (talk to DSteding about that ...
- Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:05 pm
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: 1st and reg for a sling bottle...
- Replies: 68
- Views: 5322
Re: 1st and reg for a sling bottle...
mingas for 100ft recreational dive is 40cft. :) Maybe with your consumption. ;) But not for 1 diver... With an assumed RMV of 1.0 it's 40. Not to say you couldn't blow off some stops and do it on 30, but with a deep stop at 50 and 1 minute ups it's 40cf. Who the H was your instructor?! :rofl:
- Sat Jun 02, 2012 3:01 pm
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: 1st and reg for a sling bottle...
- Replies: 68
- Views: 5322
Re: 1st and reg for a sling bottle...
+100camerone wrote: Ditto. A reg is a reg is a reg in my dive locker, and to color code things is just asking for an accident. Proper reg switching has to do with how you actually make the switch (procedure of turning on/off bottles, breathing, etc) and not with visual identification of one color or another.
- Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:49 pm
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: 1st and reg for a sling bottle...
- Replies: 68
- Views: 5322
Re: 1st and reg for a sling bottle...
Most of my 2nd stages are black, but I have a couple of yellows that I use on deco and/or stage bottles. I don't color code my regs or hoses though, so when setting up my gear I just use whatever reg is available at the time, regardless of color. On one dive it may be my O2 reg, the next dive a bot...
- Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:34 pm
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: 1st and reg for a sling bottle...
- Replies: 68
- Views: 5322
Re: 1st and reg for a sling bottle...
Lol. You're getting into slippery territory, here. It should be whatever color you like. Especially if you like black. Yeah, I agree with Josh. Depends on how you want to use it, or if color even matters. Most of my 2nd stages are black, but I have a couple of yellows that I use on deco and/or stag...
- Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:22 pm
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: 1st and reg for a sling bottle...
- Replies: 68
- Views: 5322
Re: 1st and reg for a sling bottle...
Regs have a tendency to want to free flow when scootering. I've seen it happen more than once, and it can be very tough to hear. Even if you notice it relatively quickly, by the time you let off the trigger and shut it down, you've lost a good chunk of your 19 or 30 cuft. A big reason I leave my de...
- Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:05 pm
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: 1st and reg for a sling bottle...
- Replies: 68
- Views: 5322
Re: 1st and reg for a sling bottle...
Jeff, take Richard's advice (I like camerone's too) and get a flood-tolerant reg. Not all are, and it's a high risk event for a slung bottle. Also, button pressure gauges perform poorly. Get a real SPG on a 6 in. hose. Check any of the many how-tos on stage rigging to see how to loop it back and ti...
- Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:13 am
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: 1st and reg for a sling bottle...
- Replies: 68
- Views: 5322
Re: 1st and reg for a sling bottle...
Jeff, take Richard's advice (I like camerone's too) and get a flood-tolerant reg. Not all are, and it's a high risk event for a slung bottle. Also, button pressure gauges perform poorly. Get a real SPG on a 6 in. hose. Check any of the many how-tos on stage rigging to see how to loop it back and ti...
- Fri May 25, 2012 12:36 pm
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: Battling Computers
- Replies: 107
- Views: 6984
Re: Battling Computers
And what is the rule for repetitive diving? I am usually nowhere near these limits, but I should definitely know this stuff...ugh. Using 32%, considered clean after 1 hour SI, if you stay within the MDL limits and do the proper ascent. If <1 hour SI, double the shallow stops. For repetitive dives o...
- Fri May 25, 2012 12:01 pm
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: Battling Computers
- Replies: 107
- Views: 6984
Re: Battling Computers
Also your average depth + length of dive should be less than 120. Think that's just for Nitrox though. Anyone know what it would be for air? That's just one way to come up with a no deco limit for air . 32% is -20% EAD and 36% is -25% EAD. What type of ascent you do afterwards is the "min deco...
- Mon May 21, 2012 8:28 pm
- Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade Dive Gear
- Topic: 7.25" bands and 8" bands for sale
- Replies: 9
- Views: 816
Re: 7.25" bands and 8" bands for sale
You got 150% pre-payment from me last month!CaptnJack wrote:The above bands are both sold pending payment.
- Mon May 21, 2012 2:41 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Don't Mind Me.....
- Replies: 82
- Views: 10682
Re: Don't Mind Me.....
I don't understand the point of placing "stuff" as a habitat. Diving allows us, a small, very privileged group, to explore parts of our planet totally unlike the part of our planet we reside and function in. Why the desire to bring our junk to a completely different world, where it's total...
- Mon May 21, 2012 7:54 am
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: Battling Computers
- Replies: 107
- Views: 6984
Re: Battling Computers
This same thing happened with Jeanna and I 10 years or so ago on a couple of trips to Maui. I had an Oceanic Versa Pro and she had a Vyper. We were doing some fairly aggressive 3 tank profiles, and my Versa Pro allowed us to do a slow ascent w/ some deeper stops ("allowed" meaning it didn'...
- Sun May 20, 2012 7:50 pm
- Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade Dive Gear
- Topic: 7.25" bands and 8" bands for sale
- Replies: 9
- Views: 816
Re: 7.25" bands and 8" bands for sale
I'll take the 8s!
- Tue May 08, 2012 9:24 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Maritime Documentation Society to recieve award
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2789
Re: Maritime Documentation Society to recieve award
Congrats, guys!
- Tue May 08, 2012 7:49 am
- Forum: General Tech Diving
- Topic: Computer choice
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3155
Re: Computer choice
Maybe I am jumping the gun and putting the cart before the horse. I have a very limited knowledge in the technical word right now. But with my dive master behind me I am building my kit to take the plunge. I need to find time to get out and dive with different people and styles of diving. To build ...
- Tue May 01, 2012 9:35 am
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: getting measured for dry suit
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1275
Re: getting measured for dry suit
+1 on getting measured in street clothes.
If at all possible, I'd recommend going with a stock suit over custom.
If at all possible, I'd recommend going with a stock suit over custom.
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:03 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Maritime Documentation Society to recieve award
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2789
Re: Maritime Documentation Society to recieve award
Awesome! Great work, guys.
Congrats!
Congrats!
- Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:26 pm
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: Cuda Alternatives???
- Replies: 94
- Views: 9963
Re: Cuda Alternatives???
Boy, that sure looks like a toy to me.... Dang. I should NOT have watched that video. Dang. Now I want to go out and mortgage my house and buy a scooter. Dang crack peddlers. :bored: This was another video of BDub's Jeanna's that personally pushed me over the edge when I was "Uhming and Ahing&...
- Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:33 am
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: Cuda Alternatives???
- Replies: 94
- Views: 9963
- Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:55 am
- Forum: General Tech Diving
- Topic: Reels
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2892
Re: Reels
The loop is actually much easier, imo. Much easier to get purchase on the loop than trying to grab a bead with drygloves, especially if the the wraps are tight.spatman wrote:Brian, do people really try to grab a loop before it gets wound up un the reel. The ball just seems like a pretty obvious choice.
- Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:40 am
- Forum: General Tech Diving
- Topic: Reels
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2892
Re: Reels
I like having a novice ball on my primary reel. I actually use a big bead. But I am not using it to shoot bags or lay new line in a cave (its only 400ft anyway). My exploration reel has no bead. +1 on the novice ball on primary (non-exploration) reel, especially with dry gloves. You dont like fiddl...
- Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:30 am
- Forum: General Tech Diving
- Topic: Reels
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2892
Re: Reels
+1 on the novice ball on primary (non-exploration) reel, especially with dry gloves.CaptnJack wrote:I like having a novice ball on my primary reel. I actually use a big bead. But I am not using it to shoot bags or lay new line in a cave (its only 400ft anyway). My exploration reel has no bead.