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There is a lot of confusion, because different groups want to claim too much credit for themselves. First Response. . . First Responder? Paramedic? Anyone spending time around water should take CPR from an American Heart association, or Red Cross certified instructor. Anyone getting very far...

"Stabbed in the Heart", "Touche". . . I'm Guilty, not at the above statement, but I thought the same as the poster. As an old time diver, I've been disgusted by the "fraud" I've watched quick money instructors pull off. And I'll admit, the boat diver class seemed a rip off. I don't "teach" for...

jerry1818. . . welcome to ScubaBoard, and to Oklahoma diving. We try to predict the future weather, by what the weather and diving conditions have been like in the past. Right now we are having our third heavy snow fall of this season, and pushing for an all time record snow fall for the winter...

shoot2retrieve, welcome to ScubaBoard and to freshwater diving. Depending on what part of Kansas you're in, I have two dive partners from Wichita, that are under Tenkiller most weeks of the summer. Table Rock, Beaver lakes in Arkansas, are popular with divers. If you have your bass boat, along...

Wow! superman is learning diving. Well welcome to ScubaBoard, even if you leave your super powers at the side of the pool. As a college student, learning a new world, not having enough money for everything is something 90%, at least, of us have faced. So to begin. . . hang on to your money...

Dave, you're discussing the question we've been asking for 40 years. . . Nobody has any answers, but there have been some "tricks" that have snared a few back into the water. When asked questions new divers think we're the Scuba Police. . . so they won't give an answer. When a "friend of a...

You're all a bunch of anti- (alphabet soup) rebels. You're supposed to be enslaved to the master of the "Patches". You can only be safe if you're surrounded by more and more patches. The patch printers have told me so. My early dives were about 2 years before certification. . . you learned to...

divingdezza, welcome to the board. . . there are 100,000s of thousands of divers here, but not all are spearfishing. And to further limit your response, cold weather has many spearfishermen waiting for warmer water. But there is help here. . . At the top of the page is the button "Forums"...

Welcome to the board, Bob. You're in a great state for taking up diving, even if you've missed the evolution of almost all the toys we use. You'll love the variety of the lakes to choose from. You can find good diving you can park right next to and dive out of your car trunk. You can use a small...

:D Aw, you know the Husqvarna is hard to start 100 feet down. . . There are air powered chain saws w 36" bars. The air exhaust stirs up the bottom and after a few seconds, there's an adrenaline rush as the chain is whirling around in 0' visibility. They are sold with no warranty for missing legs...

What solution will it take to please everyone? There have been "ecologists" saying that spearfishermen will wipe out all the fish. . . not true. What is true that spearfishing will limit the number and size of harmful fish in the area around the park. There are locals diving the park every day...

A cutting tool underwater should be chosen by what entanglements you might encounter. If you dive where fishermen are fishing for toothless fish,they use monofilament line, and a small knife or quality EMT shears will be enough. If the local fishermen are using steel leaders, because the fish...

Dirtydog, welcome to ScubaBoard. . . This is the place for you! You've been to Cancun. In the summer months try Isle de Mujeres (?) near by, There is shallow clear diving from the island, and fast boats to the daily travels of whale sharks. Monstrous plankton eating sharks, you can swim with...

ZKY, you've said in clear language what I was trying to convey. Shallow, clear water, where a beginner can focus on what's around them, is a valuable time, that gives them motive to dive over and over. When a new diver "finds" something to excite them. . . that excitement is enjoyable for...

I frequently dive with beginners, and it always starts with assurances that we're not going "deep" or "scary" and there's no expectations on what they need to do. Just look around and move at their speed to look at what they want to explore. I sometimes "squeeze" them toward fish, or other...

gsmarcano, welcome to Oklahoma diving. Elmer Thomas is a Federal park and unless there is a recent change, doesn't allow spearfishing. Lake Murray, is just off I-35 and you can shoot catfish, with a minimum length. Carp, gar and other "rough" fish. If your speargun is from Florida it may be too...

Well, well, the gang's growing. Welcome to ScubaBoard Oklahoma, a very small group within the hundreds of thousands of divers from around the world. Most of the posters on the board won't know where Oklahoma is, but their advice about diving may still be important to us. Oklahoma diving is...

Heart Attacks Happen. Young kids, old men and women, and every age and sex in between. Heart disease, and a virus that attacks the heart all cause death regardless of what you think an out of shape diver is in. Experienced divers are relaxed in the water. If you want to "save" people from...

Tortuga68. . . Times changes and memories fade. Is this blowing up the reef, the one near blue hole? Aircraft pilots described to him a blue hole in the ocean near Belize. There were shallow corals with fish, that Cousteau's Calypso crew used dynamite to clear a passage so they and other divers...

Experience can be a hard task master! In 40 years of diving I've been been around only one diver hit by a boat. . . and the boat driver was a diver, on drugs. Many times I've had boaters run over my dive flag (required by Oklahoma Law). Did the boaters know what the red and white flag meant, of...