Paranormal Diving?
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engdiver
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Next is the Advanced Cert for UW Ghost Hunter.:doh2:
Buoyant1
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Underwater Ghost Busters? (Just don't cross the streams!)
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engdiver
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Ghost Busters 3 idea!
AbyssalPlains
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Oh yeah! I watched it yesterday. What I liked best of all was how they were introduced: "some of the world's foremost deep penetration divers." And then watch their gear: single tanks, bright yellow octopus dangling everywhere, and - best of all, a console with an integrated air computer!!!
I do have to hand it to them in one aspect, though: Doesn't it make for a much better story telling people you saw and heard ghost divers than simply saying "I was narced"?? Gotta remember that one.
I do have to hand it to them in one aspect, though: Doesn't it make for a much better story telling people you saw and heard ghost divers than simply saying "I was narced"?? Gotta remember that one.
Oh yeah! I watched it yesterday. What I liked best of all was how they were introduced: "some of the world's foremost deep penetration divers." And then watch their gear: single tanks, bright yellow octopus dangling everywhere, and - best of all, a console with an integrated air computer!!!
I've lost count of how many shows touting "experts" film them diving over reefs while dragging unsecured octo's and consoles below them across the coral. All the while, they are hyping up the "danger" of the environment while they should be focusing more on the danger they are being to the environment.
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engdiver
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Perhaps the 'screaming' that he heard was his own reg or BC loosing air.
Lee Ehrlich
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Hello, It's Lee Ehrlich CEO of the Paranormal divers franchise.
I'd like to say hello to all of you out there. There's an amazing ammount of data that we're discovering with some of the technologies that we've developed. Many of the things that work well for our "specialty field " work well in cross-over functions also.
We work with law-enforcement, do forensic dives, look for missing children.
Our new deep-diving submersible will re-define the genra, as will our sonar drones we have developed.
There's much more to doing what we do that simply hunting ghosts that's for sure.
I find it humorous the comments made by some regarding gear etc. We have seven complete dive shops at out disposal. Any-and-all gear we ever need, from re-breathers to simple octo set-ups, all are at our disposal. There is a reason the police and fire dept's call us. -It's called DEPTH of experience.
I got called recently to pull a freshly crashed and submerged car from the bottom. It was 4am and the details were sketchy. Nobody minded my yellow hose, and nobody cared if my fins matched. -Is there a kid in the back seat of the car underwater? That is what I'm concerned with. And that's what we do.
If there is someone down there, I'll pull him out with mismatched fins, as long as I can do it.
Sometimes I run out of the shop with a handfull of octos , and we need to be somewhere on call. Sometimes I'll grab a trunkload of aluminm 80's just so we can have air to pull a submerged car out of the water. The people on shore dont care what kind of octo i'm using, they care if their loved one is in the car im pulling the door off of.
Sometimes when you need to do a happy sport dive, you don't need to drag along all of your twitchy gear. Good divers dont need gear to make them better. We have all of the bells and whistles you'd ever want, but when you do dives daily at times, like we do here in Florida, it becomes routine. It becomes a job. The shiny stuff wears off quickly, and things like "does air come out of it" start to make the most sense.
Most of us breathe aluminum 80's longer that most people can get from an ultra-pressurized steel 100, so don't judge the diver from his octo. Sometimes it doesnt take an army tank to kill a flea, and you can get the job done efficiently and easily with stuff right off the shelf The diver makes the dive, the equipment doesnt make the diver. When you can have anything in the shop, sometimes it's just fun to use anything that you find comfortable, and don't have to adjust every ten minutes.
We size the gear to the job at hand. If someone is loading up the tanks for twenty of my team, I care about their nitrox mix and their MOD, not the brand on their tank.
Part of being a diver is loving all the bells and whistles. When I first began, in 1976 there were still single staged regs like in Sea hunt. We all dove fine back then, Imagine that.
Anyhow, happy diving!
I'd like to say hello to all of you out there. There's an amazing ammount of data that we're discovering with some of the technologies that we've developed. Many of the things that work well for our "specialty field " work well in cross-over functions also.
We work with law-enforcement, do forensic dives, look for missing children.
Our new deep-diving submersible will re-define the genra, as will our sonar drones we have developed.
There's much more to doing what we do that simply hunting ghosts that's for sure.
I find it humorous the comments made by some regarding gear etc. We have seven complete dive shops at out disposal. Any-and-all gear we ever need, from re-breathers to simple octo set-ups, all are at our disposal. There is a reason the police and fire dept's call us. -It's called DEPTH of experience.
I got called recently to pull a freshly crashed and submerged car from the bottom. It was 4am and the details were sketchy. Nobody minded my yellow hose, and nobody cared if my fins matched. -Is there a kid in the back seat of the car underwater? That is what I'm concerned with. And that's what we do.
If there is someone down there, I'll pull him out with mismatched fins, as long as I can do it.
Sometimes I run out of the shop with a handfull of octos , and we need to be somewhere on call. Sometimes I'll grab a trunkload of aluminm 80's just so we can have air to pull a submerged car out of the water. The people on shore dont care what kind of octo i'm using, they care if their loved one is in the car im pulling the door off of.
Sometimes when you need to do a happy sport dive, you don't need to drag along all of your twitchy gear. Good divers dont need gear to make them better. We have all of the bells and whistles you'd ever want, but when you do dives daily at times, like we do here in Florida, it becomes routine. It becomes a job. The shiny stuff wears off quickly, and things like "does air come out of it" start to make the most sense.
Most of us breathe aluminum 80's longer that most people can get from an ultra-pressurized steel 100, so don't judge the diver from his octo. Sometimes it doesnt take an army tank to kill a flea, and you can get the job done efficiently and easily with stuff right off the shelf The diver makes the dive, the equipment doesnt make the diver. When you can have anything in the shop, sometimes it's just fun to use anything that you find comfortable, and don't have to adjust every ten minutes.
We size the gear to the job at hand. If someone is loading up the tanks for twenty of my team, I care about their nitrox mix and their MOD, not the brand on their tank.
Part of being a diver is loving all the bells and whistles. When I first began, in 1976 there were still single staged regs like in Sea hunt. We all dove fine back then, Imagine that.
Anyhow, happy diving!
rollerboi
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Why not just reduce the chances of getting your octo stuck in the submerged cars and go long hose with bungeed backup? Seems like that'd be better sized to the job at hand. Then again, I don't have experience with penetration or public service diving, so I am curious as to the rationale behind your gear choices. You make it sound as if you grab the nearest thing at hand and make it work, and I'm sure that can't be right..?
Oh, I wanted to add - I think those deep sea submersibles rock. Keep up the development!
Oh, I wanted to add - I think those deep sea submersibles rock. Keep up the development!
alewar
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