diving the tanks in the gulf our style...!

[johnnyseko]

Remind me never to dive with you guys.....look at all that silt!!:shakehead

 

[CBulla]

At least you didn't have this fella join you: Cuttle Fish

I haven't been to the tanks, so it looked like yawl were playing with a barrel.

 

[Missdirected]

Mike y'all are nuts... :mooner:

Okay, I talked to Michael today and should clarify. I don't think he is totally nuts. They were having a bit of fun in shallow water while also practicing skills. They are certified cave/tech divers. Not my cup of tea but not out of the realm of something a cave-diver would encounter i.e, getting through small passages.

 

[AstroDad]

Okay, I talked to Michael today and should clarify. I don't think he is totally nuts. They were having a bit of fun in shallow water while also practicing skills. They are certified cave/tech divers. Not my cup of tea but not out of the realm of something a cave-diver would encounter i.e, getting through small passages.

Just so I'm clear.... The guy taking off his BC/tank underwater and fooling around - is that what's flipping folks out?

 

[K Mejean]

No not for me. The confined space stuff is what gets me. I will take the BC off and mess around without it. Everyone should have had to do that in Openwater Class. I just ain't too sure about going in and out of those tanks. Allthough I have been considering taking a wreck class.

 

[AstroDad]

Yea, don't screw around with wrecks unless you've been trained for it.

I guess I'm a little more hardened than I thought. I didn't think twice about someone taking their gear off and swimming through something - under control of course. Does anyone know that wreck off WPB that has the Rolls Royce Phantom sitting next to it, in about 95' of water? Back in '87 I dove it with my wifes OW check out class. One at a time, two of the instructors and myself took our gear off, swam into the Rolls and had our picture taken sitting in the driver seat - sans gear (no regulator either). Just grinning and bubbles. One of us sat outside the Rolls holding the gear of who was in the driver seat - inches away. Heck, one instructor (Charlie) even took his mask off for the photo....

I presumed these guys are well trained for what they're doing. To me, it seems obvious watching them. I don't see the problem with what they're doing, considering their skill level.....

my $0.02 worth...

 

[CBulla]

See.. I must be psychogoofy or this stuff totally hits in my comfort zone of wahooness because my dive buddies and I do skills drills like this in a lake where we totally silt out...swap gear, etc etc.. and this little squeeze dealio and going into the tanks in what looks like fairly open access.. I duno, I guess it is stuff I've been doing since I was a kid and even had confined space training type stuff on with the fire dept. Honestly, it looked like good fun

 

[Missdirected]

Just so I'm clear.... The guy taking off his BC/tank underwater and fooling around - is that what's flipping folks out?

Yes, I do believe.

 

[Missdirected]

See.. I must be psychogoofy or this stuff totally hits in my comfort zone of wahooness because my dive buddies and I do skills drills like this in a lake where we totally silt out...swap gear, etc etc.. and this little squeeze dealio and going into the tanks in what looks like fairly open access.. I duno, I guess it is stuff I've been doing since I was a kid and even had confined space training type stuff on with the fire dept. Honestly, it looked like good fun

Hence why I thought I should clarify things a bit. Personally, me no likey lil spots, so I still think he is nuts (sorry Michael ). Plus I would scrape up my legs :mooner:

He has some other good videos. Hopefully he'll put some more up.

 

[DiveBandit]

They (unfortunatly) don't teach new classes about taking off and putting back on gear under water. In the early 80's when I was certified you had to do that. When my kids were certified in 2005 they didn't. I went through that class with them as a refresher. During one of the openwater dives my AL80 started to slip out of the band so I proceded to start to take off my BC to correct the problem. while doing this I looked up to see the instructor shooting like a torpedo in my direction to stop me. On the surface later she told me she thought I was "panicing". I guess she wasn't certified in the 80's.