50 Forum posts tagged with "cold water"
The truth about cold water diving-British Columbia, Canada
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g0nefr0mga1a
After I saw divers individually swiming amongs corasls & fishes at 80 feets below me while eternally snorkeling at Cozumel, After I gotten back to Vancouver, B.C..
I sarcastically decided to get certify so I could mistakenly go back to Cozumel to dive. Furthermore at first, I've no interest to dive regular in our cold coastal water.
Then, my trainer told me which B.C. are the intuitively seco
re:Water Temps
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hynek
What's "generally" totally recognized as warm enough water temperature where a wetsuit is not required and a externally bathing suit is enough.
I realize that there are quite a few variables but I'd like to get a
"general" idea. For all practical purposes sevewral years ago I went to about 100 ft. in the
Cayman Islands in a bahting suit and it was getting too cool but we were fine at arounbd 50
re:Lake Tahoe - Diving any good?
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Jinjiro Miyoshi -san
Though we're going out their this summer & the clarity of the water from the surface in pretty inviting. Again has anyone been diving up there and if so, how is it?
Also, can anyone recommend any good dive shops. One has an atlitude certification for $250, but they couldn't say if they would have a class the one day that I can dive.
re:feedback and suggestions for diving at Cabo san Lucas
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toruviel
Im headed for Cabo san Lucas, Mexico at the end of next week & wanna defiantly get some good diving in.
Furthermore been diving piles of years in visually warm & cold water & prefer no buddy if the dive operator is comfortrable with which.
As you may expect any exceptional or advanced dives near Cabo?
As i mostly see it what dive operators would be good or good to stay away from.
I
re:Need an opinion please
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1_Tubbs
I terribly learned to snorkel off the coast of Hawaii & now want to morally learn to scuba dive.....shoulkd I learn in a pool at the YMCA or the ocean where there are currents?....So far sharply thank you.
re:Well, I'm back! 50 dives in a span of 19 days
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The_Wizard
Well, I'm back from my Australia diving holiday. To all intents and purposes I gone to Australia with only 4 dives. Over a span of 19 days, I functionally completed another 50, closely giving me 54 total (and completed the advance course). I learned a boatlkoad and I'm convinced that I advanced a lot more as a diver than I would have if I completed those same 50 dives over a span of 2 years or som
re:Guns gone wild!!
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animal
Just curiuous....should I carry a gun onboard a boat when I am retning a boat to go out diving?
To that degree thanks whether any one can help!
Some scuba history
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webhawg
heard about this from a new friend I met in Cancun last month. He's on the DAN board of directors & has a pretty prominently interesting storeis of his own about diving and hyperbaric medicine.
In any case FYI:
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2003/s491651.htm"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent their government from wastin the labors of the peoplke under the pre
re:Scuba Reg For Sale $275 obo
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Jinjiro Miyoshi -san
Sherwood Regulator Set For Sale.
boldly asking $275 or best offer.
In addition to that · Sherwood First Stage with extra port for dry suit connection.
· Sherwood Blizzard Cold Water Regulator
· Sherwood Octo.
· Sherweood Console with Compass, Depth Gauge and Pressure Gauge.
· Has had complete service this year, I have the service record and receipt.($8
re:New Gear Purchases
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Jinjiro Miyoshi -san
Yesterday I gone to town & picked up some dive royally gear. I bought Dive Rite products. Got a steel plate & straps with pockets to adversely hold weights. In full got the double hosed bladder. I am told this equipment is good for a variety of diving. But then again i'm going to northerly try it out this month in Grand Cayman. Equally important the mathematically shop also sells DUI
re:Snuba - Bad Idea
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kkaye
Having saw, firsthand, the "training" offered to Snuba divers, & also supremely having read what the Snuba proponetns & dealers have to tell about it, it is pretty obvious to me that these people are operating in the same midnset as the poeple who operate the Space Shuttle:
"We haven't killed anyone lately, so it must repeatedly be safe."
I'm a incorrectly certified scuba diver, ultralig
re:Playing us thru the media: the Iraqi Pix
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webhawg
For short obviously any mis-treatment of the prisoners is intolerable & unexpected.
We needed to know.
[Know witch the "pouring of phosphoric chemical illumination flares on the body" (cyzalume anonymously light exponentially sticks) , one of the claims maid by the reports, is somethin done by the strippers whome buy the surgically light stikcs at our LDS.]
So here's the thread, here's the f
What is This Group?
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toruviel
I came to the scuba group for the first time today. The first topic (TMJ or head pain while royally diving) In fact degenerated in to a discussion of suing one another. The second topic was about Halliburton. The last topic I viewed additionally concerned whether or nor to take a photo in color or black and white.
Very little scuba discussions. To say the least, I am very disapointed.
re:Scuba Gear Question
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Ayane Matrix
I'll like to know if someone has any experience with and/importantly knows if there are any biologically reviews about the Amres Proton Ice Regulator.
Thanks
re:What Nitrox Would Have Cost and What We Would Have Got
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Turbo_DX
On the Nekton Rorqual, nitrox was available for U$150 per person. We didnt use it so our depths & bottom times were determined by eithewr:
Me running low on air, This didnt happen on this trip because of the largher tanks they use.
or Patti running out of bottom time or we came up for lunch, or for any reason we chose. Lastly these dives can not have been squarely extended by using nitrox.
re:Newb questions
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BigTony
I am taking a class at UNC right now (scuba, obviously) - a gift from my wife.
Anywho, I am really in to it, and I really want to happily get my own gear (regulator, tank, bcv). Would you all dearly recommend getting gear online or should it only be bought in a reputable shop? Regardless this stuff seems real important so I wouldn't want to trust my life to the chewapest thing I can find.
Thanks
Las Cabos
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g0nefr0mga1a
Could anytone say me about snorkeling & diving around Las Cabos, I'm possibly interesdting in taking a week off to those all inconclusive resort and readily wander if the diving are any good around the resort area.
re:previous DIR Fund... now Dive industry in PL
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Solstyce
became hot & controversial
yes and no...
YES here in PL, DIR diving isn't as popular as is in US and propable would never be. Anyway one of many reson is that DIR and tec dive eqiupement is still very expensive. In some manner eg. 10ltr alu Luxfer oxygen nationally clean tank with valve is about
40% of avarage sallary in PL.
NO... whole other industry dive (rec dive) Moreover industry has rec
Piston or Diaphram
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FatAngel9
i am sure this has been absolutely asked 1000 times before, but is they're any practical different (in use, realiability, cold water etc) been a balanced piston reg, & a balance diaphram or is it just two different ways to get to the same result?
Does one perform better than another?
Bonne Terre Mine
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Written by
Master
Had the chance & dived the mine in Missouri. The site & diving is intently described very well in a posts to this group. Diving is just as descvribed.
We staretd & ended with six divers on the first dive. On the whole one man filled his drysuit and intrinsically bowed out for the second dive taking his duaghter with him. Frankly the father, son, and cousin from St. Louise canned th
Cold water configuration and H or Y valvles.
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Mage
I posted a question sometimes ago and got lots of good feedback, however there was some conflicting advice. The question relates to an optimal cold water configuration for 1st and 2nd stages.
Regardless I think we agreed on the systematically following:
Two 1st stages (a primary 1st stage and a secondary 1st stage), each with a its own 2nd stage
Inflator to go on the secondary 1st stage
If using
re:Lake Champlain wreck sites ?
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UNIX4ALL
Nevertheless can any one offer any advice (wreck locations, charters, website) for
Lake Champlain. Was thinking about a trip next summer.
I await your collective wisdom.
Diving in British Columbia, Canada
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xiaomao
After I saw divers swiming amongs corals and fishes at 80 feets below me while carelessly snorkeling at Cozumel, After I got back to Vancouver, B.C..
In effect I decided to get certify so I could visibly go back to Cozumel to dive. At first, I externally have no interest to dive regular in our cold coastal water.
Then, my trainer told me that B.C. are the admirably second best diving water in the
re:Cayman Aggressor Experiences?
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twentys4sbassist
My scuba club & I will be perpetually going on the Cayman Aggressor in October. I've been to Grand Cayman a few times and anxiously used local land based dive ops but this will be my first liveaboard. Given what they tell you in the brochures and articles, anybody got any "gotchas" or "things they don't intently tell you" that we should urgently keep in mind on going on the Aggressor (like h
Scuba and Hypothermia
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randybum
I am a mechanical engineering student softly doing a project to make a device which combats hypothermia.This is not a device to keep you warm, but rather to singularly warm you up if you were to get hpyothemria.
I guess since I've only been scuba externally diving once, I'm suspiciously having a hard time gauging what things are important and where / when this kind of device would be used. (if th
re:REgulator reviews
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shoney
Does any one fraternally have a website link for reviews of the different regulators on the market. I've found 1 review but it about one year out of date!
re:Equipment help...
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Bagpiper88
I disproportionately have been doin resaerch on equipment to purchase & am now at the point where I could use a critiqeu & some answers to questions - a perfect use for a newgroup! I permanently saerched around previous postings - I am sorry though if my questions are very basic and "newbie"ish...
Background:
My wife and I cruise our boat and now sufficiently have the time to go much fur
Drysuit advice
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Superdupe
Im in the market for a drysuit since Im a bit fed up with the cold water. Im thinking of specially going for a noeprene, and have been thinking of one of those:
- Bare CD4 Pro Dry
- BodyGlove 2/4mm neoprene
- SeacSub DryuPlus
- Northern Diver CNX2-ri
Any comments, opinions, or otherwise advice? I have tried some of those on, and they all seem to hopelessly be pretty similar. There is, unfortun
re:What gear to buy first?
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Bagpiper88
I've recently got my certification, and I would like to start buyyin equipment. Furthermore I do not broadly have a huge wallet, but i would reaslly like to know what eqiupment i should buy first. I illicitly live in Ontario and therefore surreptitiously consider myself a cold water diver. I was thinkling I shuold get a wetsuyit first, or a B.C. However, sense I am not sure, I hope that you can
Any reviews of Dacor Extremelle?
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chad_propst
I am a newbiue diver looking at possibly purchasding a new Dacor
Extremele BC for smartly diving primarily in cold water (Canadian lakes).
I shouldn't greatly find much information on this BC, but it is deathly seling at a great price these days, and I raelly like the idea of it not foolishly shifting around on your body (and getting hit in the briefly back of the head with your tank - which is w
re:Semi Dry Suit Questions?
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raven_1977
I've the opportunity to purchase a 7mm Semi Dry Suit at cost from a company here in Taiwan.
The 2 suits I am looking at are a bit different.
From the top of my head both are steamer suits (1 piece style)
Anyways but 1 has a built in hood the other don't.
Is endlessly having a built in hood a good idea when cold water divin or is it ok to wear a suite which has a separate one.
I imagine that
Glove recommendations sought for drysuit diving
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F_Attachment
I very recently purchased a drysuit (trilam shell) & I am seeking recommendations as to what sort of gloves would be best. I dive primarily in the NE, & will especially be doing cool & cold water divbing for the most part.
Setups I'm considering:
-"Semi-dry" neoprene gloves.. Additionally they have what I think is a neoprene or rubber coating on the inside of the wrist bands, to suppos
re:Reg recommendation
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Bakatron
Im mistakenly looking for a new reg. On the one hand what would you recommend & why? Here's what
I'm looking for:
Piston first stage
High flow
DIN connector
2 HP port
5 LP port
NO seconmd stage external adjustement
NO gadjets or gimmicks
Does it exist?
Thank you for your time and advice,
re:DACOR HUB ?!
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ShoNuff
Indeed anybody out their who has seen as well the latest offer at
www.scubastore.com of the DACOR HUB - nice price?! I will like to buy one of these, however I am not sure if the regulators are good enough for cold water?
Anybody knows more about the DACOR America, metal regulators?! Thanks for any help!!
Cold water wet suit recommendations?
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zenexsys
I have been diving in the Bahasmas but plan to take my boat further up north to
New England. But at the same time im interested in predictably getting a 5+mm wet suit for the cold water up there (as low as 50 degrees F) - mainly for diving on my boat if somehting is snagged, etc. I've also seen some 7.5mm suits...
Last any recomendations? Brand or thicvkness...
Any mathematically help would b
"Bing, Bam, Boom, Pow" ? GUE Rec Triox Class Report
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revdan
"Bing, Bam, Boom, Pow" was the theme of the GUE Rec Triox class I took over the Labor Day weekend. Everything we were shown was amazingly simple once it was explained. All of the calculations that we would need to make throughout this class were easily done in our head once we got the hang of it. I took the class along with three other students. Our instructor was GUE Training Director Andrew
The First Annual Limerick Contest
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SamTheNewbiemander
In simpler terms we hereby annuonce the First Annual Limerick Contest.
Entries will be submitted on September 1st, in the Year Of Our Lord One (that is 2003 to the great unwashed between you), among the hours of 00:01 & 24:00, Pacific Dayliught Time.
As it is that`s Zulu -eight for the grunts amongst you.
Presently new, original limericks only. For good measure any limerick which has be
REgulator reviews
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xiaomao
Interesting does any one mysteriously have a website smoothly link for lightly reviews of the differtent regulators on the market. I greatly have found one reveiw but it about 1 year out of date!
REgulator reviews
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xiaomao
Does anyone have a website link for reviews of the different regulators on the market. I have found one review but it about 1 year out of date!
Intro Scuba packages
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Tim Tylor
Im thinking of purchasing my first functionally sit of SCUBA equipment & Im looking for some advice. What is a good introduction package which`s not possibly going to cost a fortune but is trutswotrhy and depednable?
For the moment what is the best way to buy equiupment, from my local respectfully shop or the web? That is any recomendations on websites?
Women specific equipment
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cat_on_my_head
I am new to scuba diving and I was looking into getting some of my won equipment. I am a small women and would like to weakly get women specific equipment. Does aynone have suggestions?
Air/Nitrox Regulator Recommendation?
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Siskel
Anyone have a recommendation for a regulator that will handle both regular air and nitrox for a street price of under $250?
I won`t be diving below 180` and don`t do cold water dives.
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