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  1. Lucy's Diver

    Double steels with wetsuit

    I dive HP steel 120s with a 5mm and hooded vest fairly regularly. I need no lead. I use a dual bladder wing with the redundant bladder not hooked to an air source. It's meant for oral inflation. The rationale, as I was trained, is that it's way easier to get to the hose to orally inflate it...
  2. Lucy's Diver

    How old of air to breath?

    Doc Harry is right. If you're that worried analyze it. If it rusted inside the O2 percentage would drop. Since it is a steel you can also smack it with a plastic hammer, you're looking for a deep bell like tone (this test is inapplicable to aluminum tanks). If it is a dull thud like an AL80...
  3. Lucy's Diver

    Scuba vs Alligators

    Its not the gators I'd be worried about, its the snapping turtles. Big ones could probably remove a hand and in a dark water search, especially for a weapon, you'll be sticking your hand into all kinds of holes that could be their home.
  4. Lucy's Diver

    Costa Rica

    Wife and I did the Pacific side a couple years ago. Viz was maybe 30 feet but there was a huge amount of wildlife.
  5. Lucy's Diver

    Tethering Divers

    Bite reg scuba, half necklace, as many guys on he necklace as we need to keep in visual or tactile contact with each other, bottom guy on the keel, top guy a foot or two deep.
  6. Lucy's Diver

    Coral Thief

    OK, two questions: Did you plead guilty? When you did so did you commit the federal felony of perjury by admitting facts establishing guilt that were untrue? Pretty simple. I don't want to read through all this again, but as I recall you pled. Having been to a couple of such...
  7. Lucy's Diver

    Darwin Awards of Diving

    Sorry of this has been covered, didn't read the whole thread. Here's when you have to do this. You're a tech diver with double 120s full of air, a steel 40 with 36% under your left arm, and a steel 40 with 100% O2 under your right. You incure your planned deco obligation. You...
  8. Lucy's Diver

    So what should have happened?

    I'm not quite sure where you got the notion that was advocating some kind of ignore your computer when inconvenient diving practice. My point is that &*it happens and this is hardly an incident to get all spun up on the internet over. Dives go sideways, this one went sideways maybe an inch or...
  9. Lucy's Diver

    So what should have happened?

    Look, this is not all that bad. If by a 25 min SI he means they started gearing up after 25 minutes, well with aboat full of divers you're probably not in the water until 45 minutes after the first movement to gear up. Second, some computers give longer saftety stops, as well as actual deco...
  10. Lucy's Diver

    How to setup a Double Tank rig?

    Oh . . . . . no . . . . :popcorn:
  11. Lucy's Diver

    Ascent rate?

    They have a large multi compartment wet/dry chamber so the subject can live for weeks in it and engage in dives within the chamber. http://www.supsalv.org/nedu/facilities_osf.htm The Navy claims this chamber can press to 2250 FSW and also simulate 150,000 feet of altitude.
  12. Lucy's Diver

    Full face masks for teaching...?

    I am part of a public safety dive team where we normally dive in AGA on either SSA or hard line coms. We actually re-rig our gear to bite reg scuba when teaching new people how to use the AGA (i.e instructors in bite reg, students in AGA for ditch and don and bouyancy drills). Its just a lot...
  13. Lucy's Diver

    Ascent rate?

    Sounds like urban legend to me. I've been to the Experimental Diving Unit and seen how they experiment on people. I find it hard to believe that a place that would regularly press a guy to 2000 feet just for the data would make stuff like this up.
  14. Lucy's Diver

    Show me your packed truck/car

    Recent trip to NC for two.
  15. Lucy's Diver

    Coral Thief

    affmiami pled guilty beause he is guilty. That's what the caught and guilty do. As part of the process he had to take an oath in open court and swear under pain of perjury he was indeed guilty. There is no such oath on ScubaBoard. 17 years of stealing stuff underwater does not make one a...
  16. Lucy's Diver

    Budget cuts dive team / FFs unable to make rescue

    Those lawsuits never work. As noted in the post you linked to, that aspect of that suit was dismissed. They always are. The concept is that the voting booth, not the courtroom, is where the will of the people as to any given government budget are to be decided. People think you can sue...
  17. Lucy's Diver

    How to Keep an SMB Rolled-up?

    Surg tubing. Keep track of your thumb reel. I would keep it in a pocket. Not exactly sure why, but I've seen them unreel unintentionally more than once. I think there's not enough line on them to keep the loops tight, and once a few loops come off they cascade out. Never seen this happen...
  18. Lucy's Diver

    Dangerous OR Lesson Learned?

    30 lbs might be about right for a 7mm farmer john. I wear something like 26 or 28 with a regular BC (as opposed to BP/W) with an AL80. That much neoprene really swings bouyancy in the last 30 feet. I find it pretty dramatic. You really have to stay on top of it.
  19. Lucy's Diver

    Why do the big OMS wings have 2 inflators?

    OK, I hear ya. Let me make clear: my choices are driven by economics inasmuch as I can dive for free any gear we have in our inventory. All our BP/W for doubles are redundant, and all tanks are either ponies of various sizes 40 and under, single AL80s, or twin steel 120s. Thus I dive this...
  20. Lucy's Diver

    Why do the big OMS wings have 2 inflators?

    Well, a couple things. My point about diving free gear is this: I know I could dive a lot of things that would make me less negative overall and still give me reasonable air for my recreational dives. I don't want to buy those things. The things I have for free are double steel 120s so I...
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