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    • GilesG
      Giles
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      She is not 100% sure exactly what she wants/needs, size wise and weight pocket wise. So I have ordered an L Ghost for me, with 4 small back mounted trim weight pockets and 2 small ditchable waist belt weight belt pockets.

      I wont use the waist belt pockets, but she will. I want to get her to understand (she has issues visualising shit), how they and the back mounted pockets will work.

      Once I have shown her how it all fits together, and she has worked out where her gear will attach, we will order her the wing and any other bits she needs.

      I have one of these already. So I can stow my DSMB and reef hook (and other shit, if I feel the need) in that.

      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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      • GilesG
        Giles
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        @Karol said in Scuba anyone?:

        My fucking hook was out and about few times to many this last trip...

        My fucking hook used to fall out of the pouch it came with and hook onto shit randomly. Which is why I now stow it in the XDeep cargo pouch (see above)

        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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        • BridgerB
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          @Karol said in Scuba anyone?:
          My fucking hook was out and about few times to many this last trip...

          @Giles said in Scuba anyone?:

          My fucking hook used to fall out of the pouch it came with

          @Karol - sounds like a great trip, good to get the hook out when travelling

          @Giles - did that excuse ever work? 🤔

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          • GilesG
            Giles
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            Up there with the most boring post ever......My wing has not arrived, but the weight pockets have 🙂

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            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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            • KarolK
              Karol
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              @Giles WTF?!

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              • JDelageJ
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                Going to Roatan in a month and a half. My son will get certified there while I do some dives, and we'll dive together the last couple of days. Should be fun. Lots of planning beforehand as he needs a full set of gear.

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                • GilesG
                  Giles
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                  @Karol said in Scuba anyone?:

                  @Giles WTF?!

                  Yeah, bit annoying 🙂

                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                  • KarolK
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                    @JDelage Its going to be great!

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                    • KarolK
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                      Well, I will just put it out there - I opened the diving season in Stockholm. The water temperature was 4 degrees Celsius at 3m and 3 Celsius below. That 3 was the coldest I ever experienced. We did 2 dives and when returning to the shore after the second one I was intensely thinking if it is possible to lose fingertips if it's still above 0 Celsius. Ahh and there was a hailstorm between the dives.
                      Ahh my beautiful Raja Ampat, where are you now?

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                      • GilesG
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                        Utter madness......

                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                        • GilesG
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                          @Karol said in Scuba anyone?:

                          @Giles WTF?!

                          Driving me wild. I placed 2 orders with DIVEINN. I have had no email comms from them, but both orders were showing in my account with them. The smaller of the 2 orders was delivered, then both orders disappeared from my account. I have been trying to explain that to them for the last week or so, I have been asked multiple times what my order numbers are, I don't fucking know, I have no emails and the orders are no longer in my account. Have you tried asking Royal Mail? How the fuck would they know why my orders are not showing in my account on your website? etc etc etc

                          This morning I was told that I mast have ordered them from a different email address. NO I FUCKING DID NOT.........

                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                          • goosehdG
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                            @Giles time to threaten with a chargeback? I was just reading the reviews and it seems like their lower tier customer service is handled by bots/automated shite…maybe the threat will get you sorted to the appropriate level of support. Hate doing that kind of stuff, but when there isn’t a way to pick up the phone and talk things through. (From Canada it looks like you can only use live chat or email).

                            “our policy of no discussions regarding politics, religion, asparagus, and other controversial issues.” - Andrew

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                            • GilesG
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                              Thank you. I will do a chargeback if I have to. But Amex won't let me do that until 14 days after my first bitchomail

                              "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                              • goosehdG
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                                Bitchomail added to my lexicon. 🙂

                                “our policy of no discussions regarding politics, religion, asparagus, and other controversial issues.” - Andrew

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                                • KarolK
                                  Karol
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                                  @Giles Fuck those wankers!

                                  But surprisingly your story came just in time so I could warn a friend who was just in the morning sending me page to that web shop saying he is going to order from them. I showed him your post. One more saved.

                                  @goosehd your assessment of their support capability is exactly on point.

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                                  • GilesG
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                                    In their defence, I have ordered a lot of stuff from them in the past with no issues. But because I have never had a problem before, I have not had to contact their customer disservice department.....

                                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                    • KarolK
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                                      @Giles Thinking what to do here, and this seem to be your closest authorized dealer - https://andark.co.uk/ just on the other side of the Southampton water.
                                      Bridge Rd, Swanwick,, 256 , Southampton

                                      Go with someone local that will support you when there is time for a maintanance, etc

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                                      • KarolK
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                                        @Giles thanks for the context, the X-deep wing is not a trivial matter, so it sucks that they failed on this. And the bloody pockets just sort of appeared out of nowhere, then you add the email insinuation... you see where it goes.

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                                        • GilesG
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                                          Thank you. I'm not that bothered with maintenance on a BCD, most of it I can do myself. In 22 years of regular diving, I've only needed to send a BCD away once, and in retrospect, I did not need to do that :-). Regs, now that is another matter. But with them, again, I don't get them serviced that often, 2 times I have sent them away, they have failed on the first dive post service. I look after my gear pretty well, and know if something isn't right pretty early on.

                                          Also, I don't do anything extreme any longer. I think the deepest I have dived in the last 15 years is 35m, I can get up from there very safely on a lung full of air, and I'm not that bothered if I miss a safety stop....And I dive Nitrox, so there is a fairly shallow dive limit.

                                          As I said to someone who was fussing over me in Indonesia, I've done 750 dives, and aint died yet....

                                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                          • KarolK
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                                            @Giles what have you done in Raja? 🤣

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