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Dutch Springs 10/8/10: Diving with the Sound of Silence Dutch Springs 10/8/10: Diving with the Sound of Silence
AOW_dude - 10/10/2010 12:19 AM
How do you know if rebreather diving is for you? Dude, one way to find out is to just go ahead and try it. Having dived with only open-circuit scuba gear I couldn’t help but wonder, what does diving with a closed-circuit rebreather feel like? They say it’s silent, that there are no bubbles when you dive, which sounds kinda cool. But what really blows my mind is the possibility of diving way deeper and way longer. So when I read about a rebreather demo (TSC Scuba) I signed up right away. (Yeah, a...
Dutch Springs 9/4/10: Heavy Metal Diving Dutch Springs 9/4/10: Heavy Metal Diving
AOW_dude - 9/08/2010 12:02 AM
This was one of those ‘dude, I just gotta do this!’ Time for some hardhat diving! These NEDEG guys were having their rally at Dutch (the info I got thanks to my DiveBuddy) so I wanted to try the original Mark V diving rig. The guys are great, they have a solid brass Mk V and the newer Chinese version and a SuperLite helmet and some super freaky-looking Soviet outfits and I don’t know what else but, man, they’re loaded with heavy stuff. I mean, that’s diving history right there, way before scuba,...