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    Cave rescue incident information please

    Does anyone remember a story about some cave divers, who were obviously not trained properly, who penetrated very deeply into a cave, took pictures of themselves, and in the picture you can read the air gage of one of the divers, and it showed that they did not have enough air to get back out of...
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    near drowning due to regulator failure

    Thanks for all of your advice. It was all very enlightening. Actually, I have been diving for about 15 years now and have never had any difficulty with my breathing apparatus before. I have had a few nervous moments ie: where's the boat? rising too fast. Where is the exit to the cavern? I really...
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    near drowning due to regulator failure

    Thanks for all the replies. I forgot to mention. When I got home after the dive. I reattached the reg. to a tank, and it free flowed like crazy. But it wasn't free flowing when I had the problem. To answer someone's question....I did not switch to my spare reg. I kept on purging my primary...
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    near drowning due to regulator failure

    I'm wondering if anyone can explain to me what went wrong with my regulator which nearly caused me to drown last week. I had just started my dive and was down around 15 feet. I started to detect water accumulating in my regulator slowly but did not think anything terrible was happening. I just...
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    Old Sea Hunt or Aquanauts episode????

    When I was young I remember watching what I thought to be a Sea Hunt episode on TV. There were some divers trapped inside some sort of cage and they were being slowly lifted to the surface. The divers on the inside of the cage were beginning to run out of air, so one of the rescue divers...
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    Decompression and the aquarius marine lab

    This is a great site! I wonder how those girl scouts got the opportunity to dive down and spend some time in the lab. I guess they only stayed for as long as the no decompression limits would allow, which I guess at 60 feet would be for about what? an hour maybe? It would still be a lot of fun...
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    Decompression and the aquarius marine lab

    I saw this on TV. When divers spend more than ....is it 24 hours in the lab? do they then have to spend time in a decompression chamber? How do these divers usually decompress? If they are out diving around the lab, if they had an out of air emergancy they would be unable to surface. What...
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    Why do you like diving?

    I once tried an underwater communications device at "The Forty Fathom Grotto" It was neat being able to talk underwater and I could see how it would be a good thing at times, but it did destroy the tranquility of the dive. My dive partner just wouldn't shut up and really used up a lot of air...
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    Why do you like diving?

    It's a thrill to be able to breathe underwater! It''s like you are a super human for a little while. But at the same time you are very vulnerable down there. This adds to the thrill- the danger component that a lot of people seek. Not to mention the intensely beautiful scenery! It's also a...
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    Diving with colostomy bag

    A friend of mine has had extensive colon surgery and now wears a colostomy bag full time. She is amazing in that it does not seem to slow her down. She beat colon cancer and actually plays tennis and golf constantly. Recently she has asked me if she can try scuba. I am totally at a loss at what...
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    Jet pilots and O2

    I know that this has not got much to do with diving but perhaps someone here knows the answer to this. Do jet pilots wear masks that deliver pure oxygen? Also they say on commercial flights that in case of loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks will drop down. Why is it necessary to breathe...
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    Wetsuits of old were a boon to a ladie's figure

    As a matter of fact I did use my older sister's old red wetsuit to do my early diving in. We are about the same size so it worked for me, sort of. It was off the coast of Barnegate, NJ and the water was cold! It was a full red suit with beaver tail, black twisty clasps. I wore a farmer john with...
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    Wetsuits of old were a boon to a ladie's figure

    I got that picture from a guy I know who collects vintage scuba picutres. He was over and read this thread the other day. He agrees with you about the easy access illusion thing. You wre right on target! Guys are so visual! In my earlier days of scuba diving I did wear a few of those suits...
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    Wetsuits of old were a boon to a ladie's figure

    Yeah, I guess a lot of guys would agree with you since they ( the guys) were all staring at my friend's sister in her wetsuit.
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    Wetsuits of old were a boon to a ladie's figure

    When I first started diving in the mid to late 80s there were these french cut, one- piece women's wetsuits that zippered up the front just about to the mid cleavage area. I quess it would be considered to be too sexy by today's standards
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    Wetsuits of old were a boon to a ladie's figure

    My friend's older sister (about 53) came for a visit last weekend and we all went north to the Florida springs to do some diving since it was so gray in South Fl. Now this gal had not been diving for about 20 years and she still had her wetsuit that was only worn a few times from about 1983. She...
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    diving dreams

    I guess that there is always the "cheating death aspect" in these type of sports activities such as scuba and sky diving. It adds to the thrill. The most exhilerating experience for me and the thing that I always love to do during a deep wreck dive, is to get down on the sand and look up at the...
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    diving dreams

    I have always had a reoccurring dream of being able to breathe underwater without scuba. I guess it's similar to dreams of being able to fly. The difference is that It just doesn't seem the same without scuba. I think that the sounds of breathing from scuba and also the depndency on it adds to...
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    Full Face Mask

    so could you breathe through your nose with the cresi?
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