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2010 resolution: go diving more! I hardly got out at all this year. Next year can only be better.

Yeah, I looked. Faber has 32 different 10L tanks, and 8 10.5L (which is what mine are). I'm not looking for exact equivalences, just trying to get an idea in my mind of what people are diving. If...

I thought HP and LP stood for high pressure and low pressure. But they get filled the same?
Thanks, that's helpful. Our 10L steel tanks - is there a US equivalent for them? Some people use 7L...

Thanks, Tim. That's a good list to have, but possibly more confusing than ever. LP72s are bigger than AL80s and the same size as HP100s. That's so weird. I have 10L & 12L steel tanks (actually 10.5 &...

Hi Tim, would you mind posting some of your results once you've done them? I often read online about HP108s or 130s and it would be nice to have some idea what people are talking about. American tank...

Not that I'm one of the experienced divers that Lynne was addressing, but when I make those decisions I try to make them looking from the outside, as it were. If someone else was diving with this...

Great before and after shots! You can really see the difference this program is making for you. Congratulations on your hard work. It's inspiring.

I'm interested how you go with this, Lynne. Seems like a difficult thing to train. If you want to rethink your 'no babysitting' rule, I can recommend cooking dinner with, say, a 3 yr old and a 1 yr...

I might say 'The boy dove into the pool' but in a scuba context I almost always use 'dived'. I did use 'diven' the other day (rhymes with 'given'). I knew it was wrong but it came out that way...

I'd rather go on an all-women dive trip, than be the the only woman on a boat full of men. Particularly if I don't have have my buddy organised in advance. Carts for carrying gear are great, and...

I don't know that any dives are really 'simple' to me. Maybe just because it is too long between dives sometimes, but I am always aware that I can't move the way I'm used to, can't communicate...

Yeah, I know what you mean. All my gear is still pretty much the same as I started with. I only replaced the two things that didn't fit - BC and wetsuit - with different versions - BP/W and drysuit....

Water temps here are often in the 60s. First year of diving I was toasty in a 7mm wetsuit. By the 2nd year, I had lost some 'internal insulation' and my wetsuit was 2 sizes too big. I started to get...

I used to push the weight belt down my hips to bring my feet down. It's easier to do in a wetsuit than a drysuit.

Was there a minimum number of students for either class to run?

I've always liked water, and swimming, but I'm not that adventurous so scuba diving never occurred to me. It sounded really cool, but something that other people did, people in stories, or the Navy...

Wow, I only have 1! I really need to work on my collection. I don't wear much white or black, but I've got a nice red one from Mike Ball in Cairns.

Little shrimp, almost transparent, but their cute, stalky eyes glow in the torchlight. They run away from my big, scary fingers, but then they can't resist coming back to check me out.

Flatfish...

1. What are the three happiest or most exciting diving-related things you did in 2008?

First by a long way would be getting a first-class instructor to give my partner some trim and buoyancy...

Is that the name for the red mark the seal leaves on your neck, like someone tried to slash your throat? I would love to get rid of that!

We don't get snow here. I don't think I'd like it (to dive in). I definitely don't like rough surf on rocky entries. Lightning is a bit concerning, but I wouldn't necessarily call a dive for it. I...

We have water restrictions here, so no hosing, and I wash everything in a 40L tub. Regs and BC first, while the water is still fresh, let them soak for a bit, then all the other stuff. It's hard to...

This happens a lot. People say to me, or another girl, that we need to learn to lead, so we set off, supposedly in charge of the dive. As soon as we make a mistake, someone will correct us, then kind...

All right, I guess I just read it differently - not that KevR didn't make a decision, but that he decided to defer to his buddy. If the buddy hadn't been there, there wouldn't have been a problem (or...

This thread stems from some of the discussion around Kevrumbo's Truk lagoon incident. I'm interested to know how more experienced divers handle underwater disagreements, where you think your buddy is...