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yea....but being the rocket scientist that I am, I avoid spare air from my ex.
yea, a little bored, my house is spotless.
I think I will put my spare air next to the fire estinguisher.
yes, I have learned a lot here. Everytime I see some rant against internet learning, I feel sorry for the person that they cannot discern who to listen to about what....must make life very difficult.
Lamont has definetly helped me understand how various compartments off gas in the context of ambient pressure, etc, etc. I think we should award him with his own forum where he could translate mathematical models into "where the rubber hits the road" and how this applies to your dive!
The only thing I disagree with him on, is I don't gobble up the DAN data the way he does. The stats they present are not confirmed in my years of diving and observing accidents and deaths in the anecdotal sense. Fairly egotistical to say this and I certainly don't have any better numbers...but I think the numbers they use are distorted. Several thoughts come to mind...One is that most accidents are multi-causal and multiple contributing factors don't translate well into the stats they use. It could be that we are looking at older data and the diving demographic has changed so much that poor fitness plays a bigger role than the data reflects since it was collected on younger divers. ?? Seems the aging baby boomer population and the disposable income they have to travel and buy equipment is bound to create a shift of some sort.
Worrying about spare air strikes me like the guy who smokes two packs a day concerned about his flight. I wish there was more emphasis on teaching divers how to prioritize and discern the risks they face and form a hierarchy of problem solving in their plans. I get frustrated hearing so much discussion about sac rates for example, and no discussion about current, ocean conditions etc. Sac rate and gas planning if you can't assess your probable exertion level, is a false security blanket, in my world.
The beauty of this board is that I can take a long view of a given issue and get advice and insight from a wide variety of divers, and ultimately be better equipped to make my own decisions. Of course, taking a snapshot in a given thread, if you take every post literally might be a mistake. I don't see many people doing that though. Most of the people on here a lot are processing and reflecting.
yea, a little bored, my house is spotless.
I think I will put my spare air next to the fire estinguisher.
yes, I have learned a lot here. Everytime I see some rant against internet learning, I feel sorry for the person that they cannot discern who to listen to about what....must make life very difficult.
Lamont has definetly helped me understand how various compartments off gas in the context of ambient pressure, etc, etc. I think we should award him with his own forum where he could translate mathematical models into "where the rubber hits the road" and how this applies to your dive!
The only thing I disagree with him on, is I don't gobble up the DAN data the way he does. The stats they present are not confirmed in my years of diving and observing accidents and deaths in the anecdotal sense. Fairly egotistical to say this and I certainly don't have any better numbers...but I think the numbers they use are distorted. Several thoughts come to mind...One is that most accidents are multi-causal and multiple contributing factors don't translate well into the stats they use. It could be that we are looking at older data and the diving demographic has changed so much that poor fitness plays a bigger role than the data reflects since it was collected on younger divers. ?? Seems the aging baby boomer population and the disposable income they have to travel and buy equipment is bound to create a shift of some sort.
Worrying about spare air strikes me like the guy who smokes two packs a day concerned about his flight. I wish there was more emphasis on teaching divers how to prioritize and discern the risks they face and form a hierarchy of problem solving in their plans. I get frustrated hearing so much discussion about sac rates for example, and no discussion about current, ocean conditions etc. Sac rate and gas planning if you can't assess your probable exertion level, is a false security blanket, in my world.
The beauty of this board is that I can take a long view of a given issue and get advice and insight from a wide variety of divers, and ultimately be better equipped to make my own decisions. Of course, taking a snapshot in a given thread, if you take every post literally might be a mistake. I don't see many people doing that though. Most of the people on here a lot are processing and reflecting.