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    Opinions needed: New diver in a pool without a buddy at the bottom

    Just one thing noone else mentioned... Treat your gear like any other dive after you get out. Soak it in FRESH water. The pool water looks clean but chlorine can really do a number on your gear if you let stay on there. In fact, it's a good idea to pretend you were diving in "dirty" warter...
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    Newbie question

    My sister took a resort course on vacation once (she has ear problems and ended up deciding not to take up diving) and had the misfortune of diving with an idiot. Great entertainment value was derrived though (for everyone else on the trip) as he decided that even though everyone said "don't...
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    rescue signal equipment.

    hehe... I carry 2 6 foot orange sausages bungied on the lower corners of the backpack (can always reach one with either hand). 2nd flash light (LED type always on my BC shoulder strap for every dive wether a 'main' light goes or not. Always have small reel in a pocket and add a wreck reel...
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    Out of Air Emergencies

    Only ever had one OOA event. I was diving with a brand new openwater diver that I had never met before that morning, She was diving with her brand new pony bottle her boyfriend had gotten for her... After a (longish for a new diver) surface swim to our descent point she proceded to...
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    nitrogen nightmare?????

    Hmm... I don't remember when or where, but I remember reading about a case of the bends resulting entirely from freediving. As I recal, it was during submariner training for free ascent escape from a disabled sub. The submariners would go through an airlock and into the base of a tall...
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    Funniest thing you've seen underwater?

    Diving with a guy who cut his finger prety bad (any worse would have needed stitches) just before going in. His eventual solution was duct-tape used to hold a condom on the finger (over a band-aid) and put on gloves over that. The funny part was watching him get up the nerve to ask the whole...
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    Use's a dive computer

    I've got an old air-only aladin that retired whin I got nitrox certified, a Cochran commander 2 gas nitrox that got used as guage when I got trimix certified and a DiveRite He I use now. I use the He along with tables cut with v-planner. The He seems to give profiles very similar to...
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    Is this your attire???

    Hey! I resemble that remark! Just because I shave my head before every dive trip! I havn't used a comb/brush for about 6 years now. Kind of hard to get used to at first as I used to have hair down to my waist in college... "I'm funny how? Like a clown? Do I amuse you?"
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    BC Failure Survey

    Also, if you attach 2 inflators, etc. to 1 bladder, the redundant inflator isn't... Whatever failure occures to the first inflator will still affect the bladder wether you start fiddling with the 2nd inflator or not. About the only failures this setup protects you from is a post shutdown...
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    not a diving accident but.......

    I pulled up to a stop sign going to school in a prety heavy fog one morning. I could just barely make out the red light at the next intersection down the street to my right (the other end of the block my high school was on) but saw no cars in that direction. To my left I could see a car...
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    Ways to mount a pres. gauge...what do you do?

    Or if he's also built his own HUD... ;)
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    Kit Selection and my reasoning

    Well, what about all that room freed up on your back... ;)
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    Dive computers for technical diving

    Hi diverh, I just checked the www.apeks.co.uk website and the Quantum seems to be air/nitrox only. It doesn't handle He (helium) for trimix diving as the computers mentioned above do.
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    Most Basic Errors Caused Death

    The assumtion on breath holding would be due to the burst lung if nothing else... "When his air ran out, he tried to hold his breath until he reached safety contrary to his training. But as the water pressure on his body decreased, the air in his lungs more than doubled in volume and a...
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    DAN's 2004 Injury/Fatalities Report

    Especially if you have way better gear than said buddy... ;) (Look out behind you!)
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    dive equipment trailer

    Hmm... Since noone mentioned it yet. There's some DOT (Department of Transportation) regulations about transporting pressurized tanks in the US. You can have up to 1,000 pounds of tanks (gross weight of tanks/valves/contents) in a vehical with no problem as long as it's not for any...
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    Its not the size of your sausage.....its how you used it!!

    I carry 2 orange ones (DiveRite) on offshore dives along with a small reel in a pocket and a larger wreck reel that gets clipped to a D-ring on the opposite side. They get carried on training dives in fresh water as well. The two rolls sit end to end across the bottom in surgical tubing...
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    Missing Diver incident

    Umm... An aluminum tank (with a few exceptions) is generaly bouyant when emty so it'll probably just float near you if you ditch it unless you left your reg on it. Depending on how heavy that is, it may or may not sink. Even a steel tank is only a small amount negative or neutral when...
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    Diving "RELATED" injury Saturday...

    I used to know a guy who lived on a 35 foot sailboat in New Jersey. He kept it in a marina by the highlands. In the coldest part of the winter, it would get pulled out of the water for 3-4 months and he'd go get the smallest, cheapest studio apartment he could find to stay in. I remember...
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    Bail Out?

    Here's a situation I was a witness to once... A relatively new diver wearing a pony for the first time. A long surface swim (for a new diver) to the descent point. She dropped her primary reg during the surface swim while swimming on her back. She recovered her primary (actualy her...
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