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There is the real world , then there's the internet forum world.
Lot and lots of "theoretical' divers on the boards.
If you were to actually see, meet, and dive with most of the people here I'll bet things would be way different than they appear when you read this stuff.
Anybody can be anything they want on the internet.
In person is where you get to see what people are really made of.
 
Your comment reminds me of the following popular paintball joke, which is not entirely inapplicable to SCUBA: <img src="http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=186413"/>

I've been in pball long enough to remember seeing that in APG in 88 or 89.
 
I've been in pball long enough to remember seeing that in APG in 88 or 89.

Nice. I started playing big/scenario games in 1996 with a secondhand Air Power Vector. Still have a bunch of that same marker and occasionally take one or two out for a walk-on game...always fun when my gun is a few years older than the average player at the field.
 
Nice. I started playing big/scenario games in 1996 with a secondhand Air Power Vector. Still have a bunch of that same marker and occasionally take one or two out for a walk-on game...always fun when my gun is a few years older than the average player at the field.

i probably have a couple of t-shirts older than the average player -- that are still mostly intact.
 
... you forgot to mention freediving fins ...

Ahem, split fins!!

And while we're at it, the Air 2.

But to the point, many of the questions especially in the New Divers and Basic Scuba forum are from beginner divers with very little experience. They post questions to be answered but the population of divers who are responding tend to be hard core divers who have sought out alternative dive training and with that alternative dive philosophies. There is a disproportionately high percentage of divers that are GUE, cave divers, or tech divers that participate in these forums. After all, your average vacation diver is not going to be on Scubaboard giving advice. So you get advice from highly specialized divers that have their own views on how divers should dive and what type of equipment they use.

If you want to get political support for a Democrat don't go to the Republican convention (or visa versa). There are not that many recreational divers here on SB. Those of us that don't use long hoses, still use and like split fins, have an Air 2 or similar as our alternative air source, and think PADI is actually a good training organization are unusual here on SB.

Sort of related but from another point of view. I see a fair number of medical questions that get posted. I don't understand the rationale. A non-medically trained person posts a medical question looking for medical advice but from a population of people who don't have medical training. It is literally the blind leading the blind. You shouldn't be posting medical questions at all or at least in the medical forum where you have at least some doctors or medical personnel to answer the questions. Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread, that was just my rant.
 
There's a surprising number of medically trained people in scuba diving, actually. One thing I learned when I was doing a nitrox class for TSandM and her husband Peter Guy ... never, ever, try explaining diving physiology to an MD ... she kept correcting me ... :shocked2:

... Bob (Grateful Diver)
 
I don't care how or what someone else dives, as long as they're basically safe and not going to screw up my dive or the environment.

What I do find bothersome is that some of the 'biases' on the board might mislead a new diver, especially one who doesn't have much experience with on-line communities either. Everyone is of course entitled to their opinions, but those opinions are too often expressed as facts, or without enough context for a new diver to understand how it might apply to them or not. They can also be misled when it seems like almost everyone is saying the same thing, not realizing it may not be statistically valid. I know expecting all posts to be made with this in mind is unrealistic, but it would be nice if it happened more often.
 
I see a fair number of medical questions that get posted. I don't understand the rationale. A non-medically trained person posts a medical question looking for medical advice but from a population of people who don't have medical training. It is literally the blind leading the blind.

IME, a knowledgable SCUBA diver often knows more about diving-related medical issues - at least the more common ones - than a run-of-the-mill GP medical doctor. As an example, I doubt if my doctor has ever heard about hyperbaric vertigo...



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Oh dear. It’s so easy to offend the groupthink that is frequently seen here on ScubaBoard ....//...

Why won’t more people think for themselves? Read and talk and research, but make your own choices. Find your own level of risk-management comfort.

Maybe move this to 'Solo' where the newbies, agencies, and retentives can't see it? -with a :wink: and a :nod:
 
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Just for laughs. :)


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