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Most any damn thing in life can and may kill you. You're absolutely not getting out of it alive. But an awful lot of people effectively die, some young and some older, but keep on breathing and talking, from their morning routine 'til the 10 o'clock news ends, day after day, year after year...

Florida Keys & Key West vacation planning starts here with the Official Florida Keys Tourism Council has a good load of information and will put you on an email monthly newsletter list that will tell you some of what's happening in the Keys in the coming month.

Note that there's a normal progression from infancy to adulthood and that confidence, fears, and concerns change from year to year. Everyone had a somewhat different time line of how this progresses. In the teens, a lot of these things are tied to body concerns, which includes safety fears. The...

What would I want from a refresher or update? I suppose I would want to hear about any revised wisdom since I took my last course. And, if I reread the book and any part is no longer clear or comfortable, I want to cover that. And I want the instructor to catch any bad habits that have crept in...

You may get a lot from the last few posts (page 3) of the asthma thread over in Disabilities. http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/divers-disabilities/345002-diving-asthma-3.html

Well, if you think about it, you took on three new deals at once. One is really OPEN water, the ocean, which is definitely NOT the shore you had experience with. Then the depth/vis and the bottom out of sight. And the realization that the instructor isn't there to pull you out. And, I guess, the...

Look. You say your reason for posting is that you really think you'll be okay but want some opinions and experiences. First, experiences mean nothing at all. For that matter, most people with frank asthma won't be here reading this. But choosing the option you want to choose based on someone's...

There's just no practical way to get useful numbers regarding experience versus accidents. No one can say how many people can be described as "divers with less than 20 dives." Is someone who went through OW for their vacation and made a couple of dives on the trip and nothing for years and...

I wore hard (old non-permeable) contact lens for many years, went to glasses (which eventually became trifocals), and also have soft contact lenses to use when I want. The contact lenses are mostly used for water surface activities, like kayaking, where splashing is a nuisance. I dive with a...

Granted, but there are no windows, your destination is 40 years away at light speed, and the (only) in-flight movie is Ishtar. (Your seat mate sells Amway.) I wish I had ice cream.

It is one thing to have suspicions or enough to hold a private opinion (for which there are no consequences if wrong) and having a case that can go to court. It's nowhere near sufficient to have mere conflicts in accounts made from memory at different times. Memory is notoriously fallible. Now...

This is one that's just going to have to wait on what comes out of a renewed inquiry. It's a complicated collection of the sort of things that often muddle an investigation and lead to an unsatisfactory result, as it did here. I'm leery of depending much on media accounts, but the statement that...

I don't work in Florida, but things are pretty common to most states. The coroner or medical examiner determines, so far as possible, the means and manner of a death. The means is the physical cause. The manner is one from homicide, suicide, accidental, or natural. A coroner can revise a...

I would point out that such statements often do have value. Not value to the group, as you would wish, but people make them because they may indeed have a peculiar value to them. I suspect that a lot of it is motivated by a deep fear of making the same mistake or taking the same wrong action...

They do say the surest way to spoil your hobby is to make it your business. I find that when people dream of being in a particular business, they almost always overestimate the volume of business or they fail to recognize where they can realistically create business. Many, many very talented...

That sort of thing is just plain poor management and poor business practice. Perhaps it's also something that became established in the culture. But, back in the early 80's I got to know a fair number of IBM folks when I was helping teach in a technical school they sponsored for their employees...

It's one thing to say you don't want to die in bed, but life doesn't give you many clean choices, and the choice fate makes for you might be between dying in bed and going feet first through a slow wood chipper. Okay. Let's say it was as close as anything could be to a sure thing that by...

I'm very new to diving, so I still think of a lot of things in terms of the other critical missions kind of activities that I've spent most of my life in. I would not be surprised, if I was seeing this scenario being controlled by a diver in full and calm possession of his faculties but dealing...

There's just such a large component of chance involved that the range of circumstances with good and bad outcomes are all over the place. How many alveoli rupture. How much air is upstream of the alveoli to produce pressure and continue to leak. How badly and how large and how many bubbles enter...

Real useful book. I wouldn't say it provides any neat answers, but it's a great vehicle to stimulate your thinking about what kind of stuff can happen and why it might or might not be survivable. I would say that it's true that failures are inevitable, but one thing he illustrates is that there...