[charleskieffner]

heres what 33 years of doing this crazy sh!! teaches you.............

BUY ALL LIFE SUPPORT(regs/b.c.'s/spare air/computers /drysuits/etc from reputable DEALER! not the internet!

mfg's will not warranty from most internet companies.

sooooooooo should warranty be needed, dive shop will honor warranty. pay a little more but its worth it.

my scubapro/uwatec dive computer DID CRAP OUT in hawaii on night dive. couldnt happen in a crappier time! showed NO AIR SITUATION alarms going nuts! slow ascent from 50 feet with one hand on SPARE AIR! kinda hairy looking back.

took freeking computer back to scuba sciences MAD AS HELL and they sent it back to scubapro. scubapro kissed my A$$ bigtime and gave me all sorts of goodies plus new updated computer. works perfect now.

too be real techy for deep wreck entries or long cave entries i will add my old manual pressure gauge also for redundancy. cant be too safe.

remember taking pictures .................you kinda forget about everything going on except whats in your viewfinder.


standard drill on dive trips is first 2 days cruise all dive shops and pier area checking out shops/equipment/dive boats then pick the shop to go with. not all are the same and some suck quite frankly. have done background check on all of them but really its eyes and ears time as far who runs the best operation.

i have dived off of BONK-A boats and it sucks. big dive platforms, cute dive master chicks and big motors trip my trigger as well as them being camera savvy! nothing worse than cattle call and 25 people stepping on your gear.

my flights at 10:30 am and i am pumped!