[Digger]

Ebay, in my experience, is a very expensive place to buy kit. UK Diving's got a lot of personals ads, and is often pretty reasonable, as is the Personals section on these boards. Divernet might even have an elusive bit of kit, but you do get the odd few who just don't realise how little all that expensive gear they bought a year ago is worth!

Mary, you can get as many 10s and 12s from the club as you like, so the 7s route is the answer! No more singles and pony diving! Perfect for Stoney and reasonable depth coastal diving. A match made in heaven. I'll even sell you the twinning band kit to put them on your BCD. Cheap, like, as long as I can borrow the twins now and again.

Nitrox courses are running left right and centre. Look on the POE 2003, but it's Sports + 20 dives. You don't really need to worry about the exra dives, but I don't know whether you've finally got the Sports signed off yet!

You'll want to go firing SMBs for the day at Stoney too, because that's basically all they can fail you for in the practical. You'll pass the theory easy. I did it in 20 minutes. And I never use BSAC tables!