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I keep coming back to the exit out of the cabinet and what appears to me to be a 2X2 hatch - most adults would have to haul themselves out to an initial prone position as they couldn't exit standing. That costs time.

We always buy insurance, but do it the opposite direction - we get "all events" travel insurance through Travelex and then purchase the dive rider, which has all the DAN benefits and then some. We've never had a problem getting losses paid.

My assumption always was that the only possible pure O2 was in pony bottles in first aid kits, and had no impact on the conflagration.

Yeah, nowhere near as crowded. Plus, it is actually cheaper than a SoCal boat on a per diem basis, albeit with a longer trip. For me, the crowding is a major thing.

Fantastic!

I'm trying to remember the last time I went to that site - seemed like even though it is to the lee side, it is on the open ocean side and and the current could get tricky. Hope he's found safe!

The math is easy - you lose 6 fares of $550 on an average weekend, $650 on a holiday - so between $3300 and $3900 per trip. At the same time, you are now down six divers which actually alleviates crowding at meals, on the dive deck and at the platform. It actually turns into a better...

Something dawned on me this morning. My newer batteries tend to recharge via USB, which I'm assuming is always a protected circuit. Older batteries were direct plugins. I'm wondering if someone was charging an older-style battery by a 110 plug either into an unprotected circuit OR a surge...

I was on a night dive once and was looking directly at my buddy at the moment his old school Princeton Tec dive light flooded. For a brief second, that thing (only four lousy D cells) lit up like the sun. For some goofy reason, it came up resealed when we surfaced - we unscrewed it, the thing...

Good to know. I’ll be certain to assiduously avoid all California LOBs and will confine my spending to Caribbean, Australian and Indonesian sailings.

That's what was reported to me, and confirmed by more than one poster here.

You either never answered my question or I missed it - would you as a rating officer have signed off on and approved that configuration for the secondary hatch in good conscience?

Karen, with all due respect, I generally pay about 200 myself for a half day's two tank boat dive. Your statement of $550 being "not cheap" for two days' and nights' dives leads to the degradation of the sport, as there will always be some crappy operator eager to meet the demand for cheap...

Nothing about that exit setup meets the standards of 46 CFR §177.500 et seq. It isn't clear enough, marked enough, traversible enough or even large enough. A couple of somebodies did a gigantic wrong, and 34 people died as a result.

As a rating officer, would you, could you in good conscience sign off on that escape hatch layout? I couldn't.

Try another You have a much more forgiving opinion of the professional competency of the bureaucratic arms of the military than I do, particularly those who work in close proximity to the industry participants they've just certified.

Wondering about whichever idiot signed off on the inspection and annual certificates. Lots of winks and handshakes on that one.

Every LOB doesn't have to rise to the level of an Aggressor, Wakatobi or Mike Ball operation, but surely to the Goddess they can be run at least as competently as Blackbeard.

Another compartment, sure. However, to enclose it in a cabinet is just simply stupid.

Well, if you surround the egress area around the exit point of the emergency hatch with a crappy plywood box that doubles as a counter, then yes, a conflagration would likely block it.