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    TSandM -- Her Greatest Posts

    I don't remember the post, but she offhandedly (and jokingly) said something like "on a shore dive, I keep my regs in my mouth until I'm back at the car". At the time, I'd take them out once I got to the surface, and maybe switch to snorkel if there was chop. But the point was made, until...
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    A TALE OF TWO SCUBA DEATHS (invitation to further discussion)

    Not here. Water temp is around 50F at the surface, and 40F at depth in the summer, so basically a little more than fridge temperature. I know a few marine biologists, and they've said that here, gasification would happen after... um... crabification. I'm pretty sure she was DIR, so her suit...
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    Diver Missing Race Rocks BC, Canada

    That's a hell of an exchange. I was there a few years ago with a single-digit exchange and I could see the current wall in front of me. Calm kelp, calm kelp, sideways kelp. Water temp yesterday was probably less than 10C / 50F, with surface visibility being next to nothing due to forest...
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    Diver Missing Race Rocks BC, Canada

    It's not me, and I have no idea who it is. I hope the guy is okay, but odds are pretty slim at this point.
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    Victoria BC Canada -> OOG Diver taken to hospital

    FTA: "A Victoria pilot boat scooped up a scuba diver in distress off the Ogden Point breakwater Sunday afternoon and brought him to a waiting ambulance. Victoria Fire Capt. Dan Mollberg said two people were scuba diving off the end of the breakwater around 1 p.m. when one of the divers got...
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    Diver Death Belize Blue Hole

    Other than running a dive to 150'+ with equipment specced for 80'? ... no. I mean, you'll probably live and probably won't have to visit a chamber. Ultimately it's your body, your call.
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    Diver Death Belize Blue Hole

    It's... if you're ... It's not a dive you... I don't really know what to say. I'm not sure I get to have an opinion. Maybe I deserved to die on the BZBH. Maybe this guy didn't. He's not the first to do his Checkout Dive on the BZBH and he won't be the last. As a dive, it's not...
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    Diver Death Belize Blue Hole

    According to my camera, decent starts at 2:40. You get to 150' at 4:15.
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    best novice dive for afternoons in san diego?

    Thanks for the tip. I'll be in SD around the same time and I'd love to get a dive or two in while I'm there.
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    Article: Shearwater Announces Nitrox Recreational Mode for Petrel

    I really enjoyed the new display for rec diving. The only thing it's missing is "Canadian" units -- depth in feet and temperature in Celsius. My SPG is on a Miflex hose, so it's on my wrist.
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    Lost a finger with a bang stick

    I know a guy that blew off one of his fingers with a 9mm. He got "AWKWARD" tattooed on his knuckles. Seriously though, I hope he's okay.
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    An easy lesson learned the hard way

    It's probably not for us per se, it's for the people who were "just steadying myself and a piece broke off, I put it in my pocket just so I could ask what to do with it, but then I forgot, so I took it home".
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    An easy lesson learned the hard way

    Once time I cut a hole in a dry glove doing the same thing (but with my wing). I'll stop complaining about that now.
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    Nanaimo Snake Island fatality

    160 - 250 feet? Is that the news getting it wrong?
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    Losing integrated weights

    Just checked. Used rental AL80s are being sold for $150 each by the FLDS. That's about par for the price here. Steel 80s run $500, 100s about $650. Yeah, that's why we cross-border shop. ;) I live on an island, so it costs me about $300 to go down to the US for a day.
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    Diver rescued after drifting 16 hours near Bali

    Ah, I totally misunderstood what you said. You meant that giving them the coordinates means nothing at all if they aren't using GPS, since they will get a very precise but unhelpful idea of where to go. I thought you meant that their GPS receivers would get your signal directly, which is not...
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    Losing integrated weights

    I have yet to encounter a local diver carrying less than 30 pounds. I've got a SS backplate, 5# in each ditchable pouch, 4 x 5# in tank pouches, and 2 x 2# around the tank. So somewhere near 40#, and I've got next to no biological buoyancy. (12% BF) Of course, that means I have to have a...
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    Diver rescued after drifting 16 hours near Bali

    That's not how GPS works. GPS receivers will only grab the coordinates from satellites. Full stop. What you get out of the unit is a string (RS-232, for those that care) of your coordinates. All you will get out of any GPS unit is "This is where you are and how fast you are going." If you want...
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    Drowning on the surface

    That reminds me of my first dive with my new suit... My buddy and I ascended at the breakwater at Ogden Point, and there was some chop. Not bad, you know how it is. When we got onto the breakwater to walk back, we both got knocked flat by a wave. Every time I tried to get up, I got knocked...
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    Another TrustMe dive experience

    He who thumbs and swims away, lives to thumb another day. ;) ---------- Post added August 20th, 2013 at 03:42 PM ---------- Nobody knows what they don't know, and of course, what you don't know is what will likely get you injured or killed.
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