It is upsetting when unenlightened government bureaucrats start imposing bans on diving beyond what the diving agencies already have in place. There is no drive to enact legislation banning solo hiking, solo climbing, solo skiing, etc - all activities where "a buddy could save your life". Why...
Bryan was providing a very valuable service to the DIY and vintage diving community. Can't believe he is gone just like that. Condolences to his family.
It is unfortunate that VDH was a one man show with no contingency plans in place. Is there absolutely no one who can take over? Is this the...
Thank you for the great analysis. Really informative!
In tech diving, disregarding the manufacturer instructions is the norm. From mask burning, through using nitrox regs with oxygen, to overfilling cylinders 10-20%. It sure feels like the manufacturers try to put a margin of safety around...
I agree. It does seem overly cautious by Mares to put these restrictions in the manual. The mask is absolutely nothing special - just an inexpensive junior mask. No "ultra clear" glass, polycarbonite glass, special treatment, or any resemblance of a "super mask" as far as I can tell - just the...
For years I have been using with great success a combination of "lens burning" and "toothpaste scrubbing" to prepare my new masks before first use (otherwise they fog up instantly and hopelessly). I just picked up a new mask for my kid from Mares (dual lens, tempered glass, nothing special) and...
Fact: the least risky diving is not to dive at all! Lots of people find any diving unacceptably risky and don't engage into it. Thankfully, nobody gives said people a forum to advocate for a ban on diving for those who do it. Yet, we have to listen over and over again to GUE fanboys trying to...
Look, could it be that I have been suckered into believing and retelling a credibly sounding folk tale? Sure! Do I base my take on the need-to-know disclosure of credentials solely on this one story? Absolutely not! I simply can't see anything good coming out of flashing a...
@brgold Thank you for sharing this story. It certainly helps shed light on the Guardia Civil take on the accident. It was a commercially guided dive, so clearly the dive leader has to answer for what happened. Then again, there is something to be said as well about the recklessness of divers who...
Doesn't sound like he thought it out too well. Princess Latifa did a way better job with much less funding. And she would have made it, if it weren't for the Indian special forces abducting her at the end to appease their Arab overlords.
At least, he chose a complicated reservoir for his...
California Ponzi scheme suspect drives underwater scooter into lake while fleeing FBI agents
A man suspected of being behind a $35 million Ponzi scheme has been detained after trying to flee the FBI with an underwater vehicle beneath the depths of Lake Shasta, California.
Matthew Piercy, who...
Wow, this thread is really going off topic! Then again, it's important to clarify the distinction between credential and role on a dive.
Here is a quick real life story that I was told first hand from the "instructor" in it:
An instructor that I knew in New Hampshire went on a pleasure dive...
Sure, go have fun any time in one of these tropical artificial wrecks that are set up with cutout exits all over. The wreck in this accident is different beast altogether, from all we know! People with healthy self preservation instincts wouldn't shouldn't even consider going in without proper...
Technical/cave diving is not for everyone, that's for sure.
Swimming around a deep wreck would be an advanced sport dive. Penetrating it is a technical/cave dive. Does not sound like the victim or the group were tech/cave divers. Taking sport divers on a cave/tech dive seems far too common in...
Looks like a silty wreck with lots of entrapment possibilities. The depth of 35-40m is a factor. Also, it looks like the vessel is inverted and the only access point is on the underside (so hard to qualify this as a swim-through for all): El Soo Yang. El Narcótico. Eduardo Grandio
I assume you are describing solo sport divers (no deco profiles, no overhead) in tropical conditions... And they must have redundant air source, mask, gauges, etc? That's because they can run into unexpected trouble with their equipment at any moment of time without forewarning and must resolve...
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