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- Sat Jun 29, 2013 11:41 am
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: LED vs HID
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1758
LED vs HID
We're getting ready to replace the gear we had stolen last month and I am looking for some opinions. We had HID lights which we liked quite a bit. However I want to consider an LED option for replacement. Anyone have practical experience with both? How much less effective are the LEDs in local waters?
- Sat May 25, 2013 12:14 pm
- Forum: Diving Education (Recreational)
- Topic: What's new in PADI? Buoyancy, BCD removal and tables.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9672
Re: What's new in PADI? Buoyancy, BCD removal and tables.
Oh - for those who say you should understand NDL theory to be a diver, I would argue that you're more likely to need to understand the mechanical operation of your regulators than NDL theory, and nobody teaches that: the TECHNOLOGY THAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE is not considered "important" to teac...
- Sat May 25, 2013 12:11 pm
- Forum: Diving Education (Recreational)
- Topic: What's new in PADI? Buoyancy, BCD removal and tables.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9672
Re: What's new in PADI? Buoyancy, BCD removal and tables.
My biggest problem with my PADI certification (through Rescue) was that they taught NDL plans, not gas plans. I feel this is THE biggest issue in dive training today. After more than 200 dives, all over the world, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I have run out of NDL. 99% ...
- Fri May 10, 2013 10:59 am
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Dive Gear STOLEN!!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3622
Re: Dive Gear STOLEN!!
My storage unit is inside the parking garage of my apartment complex. The parking garage is secured with key-card entry. The storage units are inside an interior space that requires and old-fashioned metal key to open. The storage unit itself was secured with a padlock. Around 19:00 on Wednesday I e...
- Thu May 09, 2013 5:17 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Dive Gear STOLEN!!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3622
Re: Dive Gear STOLEN!!
Bad day at the gear rack. :( Regulator Scubapro Mk25/ G250 stage G250 info: P/N 11.264.000 S/N 0400200448 DIN connector, 22" second stage hose, SPG on 24" hose, 24" drysuit hose, 24" BCD hose, 7ft second stage hose, Vytec Wireless Transmitter (* Note: second stage on 7ft hose is ...
- Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:50 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: What we can learn
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2935
Re: What we can learn
A diver in trouble at Edmonds UWP is going to be a really sad story. You have to swim SO FAR to get to the diving areas that I'm usually a little tired when we get to the buoys and just want to rest for a few before descending. I can only imagine coming up with a distressed diver and looking at that...
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:33 am
- Forum: Diving Education (Recreational)
- Topic: thoughts on dive schools
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3587
Re: thoughts on dive schools
We miss everyone there too! You have NO IDEA how great you all have it, being able to do great open water, ocean diving any time you want with just a few hours prep time. In Atlanta we're really not that far from the ocean, but any ocean diving activity requires a lot of planning, substantial expens...
- Sun Jan 25, 2009 8:42 am
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: Diamond Knot and Dungeness Crane Charter
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3032
Re: Diamond Knot and Dungeness Crane Charter
Sigh.
You will all rue this day when I finally get to dive the Oriskany!
RyanD
You will all rue this day when I finally get to dive the Oriskany!
RyanD
- Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:41 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Buoyancy Control
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2893
Re: Buoyancy Control
The first thing I would do is grab a buddy and head over to Cove 3. Gear up, and go out to where the water is at about 15-20 feet deep. Now learn about your drysuit. Learn how to dump air from it by moving your arm. Figure out how much air is too much, how much makes your feet "floaty", wh...
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:06 pm
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: i'm in the dive computer market again
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2206
Re: i'm in the dive computer market again
Do any of these computers really "penalize" for deep stops at rec depths? I dive with a Vytec and I often take a deep stop of a minute or more when ascending from a 100fsw dive, and I've never had it chirp at me at all. Usually even with a slow ascent when I reach the planned stop depth I'...
- Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:17 pm
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: Suunto Vyper 2 Air/Nitrox Wrist Computer with Compass
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1391
Re: Suunto Vyper 2 Air/Nitrox Wrist Computer with Compass
I dive a Suunto Vytec and love it. I am gas limited rather than NDL limited for most of the dives I do around the PNW (and you probably are too, if you do your gas plan rationally). I took a liveaboard in the Carib once and did 14 dives in 4 days and it never so much as chirped at me - plenty of dow...
- Thu May 08, 2008 10:19 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: AAAAAAARRRRRGGHHH!!!!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1491
Re: AAAAAAARRRRRGGHHH!!!!
You were saying....
Forecast for Reykjavik:
Forecast for Reykjavik:
- Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:46 pm
- Forum: Diving Education (Recreational)
- Topic: Do you really need to take a class for ....?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4152
To Class or not to Class
I think you should be able to get a rec Nitrox card by passing an on-line test. You should still have a card, because you should at least demonstrate some fundamental knowledge of oxygen toxicity & MOD before you do it, but I don't think it requires classroom instruction or "experience dive...
- Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:17 am
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: How much air to get to the cove 2 I-beams?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5876
Re: How much air to get to the cove 2 I-beams?
I am interested in checking out the I-beams out at cove-2 but all I have right now are single aluminum 80's In general, I think the 60-100fsw dives off Cove 2 are a fantastic training ground for dives all over the Puget Sound. They should not be attempted without the right training, the right gear,...
- Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:15 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: SNOW REPORTS?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2262
Snow. In Iceland. Who would have believed it?
We've had snow on the ground, more or less, since the day before XMas. Yesterday the temp hit -10C (that's 12F for those of you in the USA). At one point we were well over 1ft on the ground, but it has reduced to about 2 inches over 2 inches of solid ice. When I got here, I was told "it rarely ...
- Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:12 am
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: Góðan daginn!! Moving to and Diving in Iceland
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7837
- Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:53 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Shore diving discussion
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2576
Maybe that's something the proposed calendar here could be good for? I built an entire web-based software solution for scheduling events (and reporting results) for OrganizedPlay, the startup I founded after I left Wizards of the Coast. That software could be easily repurposed to serve as a central...
- Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:50 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Shore diving discussion
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2576
Re: Shore diving discussion
So, here is the discussion and this may be dreaming a bit but, if you could change the "man-made" problems about your favorite dive site, what would it be? Where? 1) Sani-can facility at Octopus Hole, Three Tree & Day Island 2) Stairs or Ramp at Sunrise & Day Island (i.e. remove d...
- Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:07 pm
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: There's a reason for the boundary line....
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14018
- Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:30 pm
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: There's a reason for the boundary line....
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14018
- Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:13 am
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: Searching for The Monolith
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1318
Searching for The Monolith
This evening we made our 2nd attempt to locate "the Monolith" by diving in Cove 1. We splashed a 3 person team, me Rich_C and Adron_M. We descended down the main buoy in the center of the cove, tied off a reel, and headed down slope on a bearing of 35 degrees. At about 75fsw we found what ...
- Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:57 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Big Stubby
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1672
Re: Big Stubby
Diver_C and I saw 3-4 stubbies last year at Cove 2 on the boundary line at about 85fsw that were baseball sized.Tom Nic wrote: Does anyone know how big they get?
Ryan
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:08 pm
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: any input on this Suunto VYTEC?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1635
- Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:24 pm
- Forum: Diving Education (Recreational)
- Topic: USCG Diving Mishap Gallery
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2705
The ice liberty thing is in my mind a red herring. The only people who needed to be sober here were the divers and their surface support team. If the rest of the boat wanted to party hard, it had little bearing on the safety of the dive itself. When I dive, I don't expect everyone on shore to be foc...
- Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:48 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Perception of the DIR community?
- Replies: 170
- Views: 49771
Re: Other reasons for DIR issues
I'm fortunate enough to own my shop, but for the average diver and dive shop it's much more lucrative to have a diver move on to tech than not. I guess my overall point is that there are a lot of divers in the PNW going DIR who aren't going tech. I think the absolute link between DIR and tech is br...