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I've dove with Randy more times than I can count....... He conducts his dives as safely as one can conduct this type of dive. That said, the trips he conducts are definitely "advanced" in nature..... You are expected to be at the "second nature" experience level with all things SCUBA-related...

Pretty good... Also pretty good odds you'll never see it...

This is a numbers game. Randy's been doing this 3 times a day on most days for a very, very long time. Others that run certain blue boats have been doing it decades...... "Incidents" are minimal.... more people are injured and/or die parasailing than hand feeding sharks..... That said, the...

While I agree with you that Everest does have a summit and thus limits the stupidity of those that seek to conquer it, I do not agree that if Doc Deep had survived we would be gleefully discussing the next attempt... Perhaps some people would be discussing that, but I venture that many...

There is something here I don't get about this particular mentality...... I do "get" people climbing Everest..... Although it's been done a couple of times, you cannot routinely fly a helicopter to the summit. If you want to get there, only your own two feet can take you....that's it! No...

Perhaps...... what I said is that I didn't feel anything. That particular dive was a wall dive on the south coast of Puerto Rico. I was shooting stills and video the whole dive. After reviewing the footage and still images, I am also fairly sure there were no memory lapses, time...

I'm fond of parachute cord....... Not the easiest thing to cut accidentally and available cheaply in the military surplus market........

OK.... I stand corrected regarding O2 and narcosis...... I'm a diver, not a scientist..... LOL.... P.S. Never gave any of this much thought..... My deepest air dive it 160 FSW and I felt absolutely nothing..... I know what narcosis should feel like from doing N20 shots back in the day...

Not necessarily immaterial...... reducing nitrogen in the mix from 78% to 67% as in EAN32 would have a measurable effect on the onset depth for narcosis for any given diver. The effect of experience is more anecdotal, I admit. Many divers (myself included) have observed that the more they...

Agreed......

I have not heard an exact location of where the body was found, but from the general descriptions in the papers and my familiarity with that wreck, I would say the depth was somewhere between around 110-120 FSW... They were not diving air and they were both fairly experienced, so I doubt...

You have to understand what I said in context...... With all the barely-certified recreational divers that frequent these wrecks... signs that read "Welcome to the Entrance to the Interior of This Wreck" and/or "All entrances/exits and safe passageways are clearly marked.... please follow the...

I agree with the concensus that internally labeled wrecks and well-published maps would kill more people than they save. There ARE maps of the interior of many of these wrecks both from the time when they were still working ships and post-sinking..... Any wreck diver knows they are for...

I am familiar with the Ophelia Brian and what you describe is not considered a "penetration" -- Swimming through an enclosed area where a) no artificial light is required AND b) the exit on the other end is CLEARLY visible meaning no backtracking is required is generally OK with recreational...

No, he didn't say that exactly.... but the way I read it, that was certainly the implication. For the record, I have no reason to doubt boulderjohn's qualifications nor his ability to do any dive he sees fit doing. My issue is with the boat crews that play loosy-goosy with their own...

+1 --- There are recreational dive charters with their rules and technical dive charters with their MUCH DIFFERENT rules. They are both widely available. I recommend that everyone go on the boat suited (and equipped) for what they want (and are presumably qualified) to do. Anyone...

I know Scuba-Do and all other dive operators in the Port Largo area quite well and can tell you with little doubt that: 1) On all wreck dives they DO brief and repeat often the prohibition against wreck penetration beyond a swim-though where the exit is clearly visible and NO light is...

I feel horrible for the family and friends of Capt Dragojevich. I truly hope his tragic death serves the purpose of being a learning experience for any diver contemplating any similar dive without the proper equipment and training and that his death ultimately helps save other lives. That...

I know I said I'd shut up.... but.... I think its pretty sad how some people like to ignore obvious historical fact just because it creates inconvenience to a certain narrative.............. Everything I said can be easily researched...... and as to the comment regarding wanton fish butchery...

I wrote a paper on early modern diving history when I was in school -- we used typewriters then... LOL. Google is your friend.... I'm sure all this stuff is out there.... You will not find any bombshell articles titled "Hans Hass was a closet Nazi" or the like -- but if you research things...