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Britton, it's ridiculous for you to say you're taking every precaution possible after you've made such a big deal of taking a "minimalist" approach to cave diving and insisting that training and fancy equipment isn't needed to cave dive safely. You seem to think that assuring everyone verbally...

Britton is a "she". With a 14 year old son...

Once you complete certain training, you dang well know there was some stuff you didn't know when you started, and you know some of that stuff is pretty danged important, too.

Britton, I've been reading up a little on your story and posts, and have taken a look at your and your husband's form in the water. Contrary to this great full speed ahead adventure you feel you've embarked on, before you get a single bit more experience in cave diving, you need to get a...

I saw your video-- and read your self-professed "spirit of adventure and daring" declarations. You have poor technique, you are not equipped with the redundancy required for the cave dive your video in Manatee portrays, you are destructive to the environment, and it's obvious you don't have any...

My apologies if I lumped you in unfairly, but the fact is that you are among a number of users making their second or so post on the board, all saying variations of the same thing (with varying degrees of coherence/sanity), all within a one day period when things had quieted down. I really...

Yep, here we go. I would respectfully suggest that if you are going to go to the trouble of starting an account just to chime in on this, you might also go through the trouble of reading through the thread and getting it right. AFAIK, no one has even once suggested that the octopus species is...

Funny how a stream of users have made their first post within a single day, dragging up a lot of petty arguments that were better buried back in the original thread. For you would-be defenders: you aren't doing your subject any favors dragging this stuff back up, holding him up as a righteous...

I am stoked!

I believe TSandM on the board here may know a technical instructor in your area, you might ask her for a name or reference. It might just happen that it's the same instructor that does this class, since technical stuff can be a pretty small world. I imagine she would be a pretty good source...

I'd advise finding out who the instructor is first, then go talk to them directly to get an idea about them-- how much experience, what kind of diving they've done, their attitude and approach toward technical diving... try to get a feel for how you'd like them as an instructor and whether you...

Maybe dragging out stage one from The Four Stages of Learning is in order: Basically, when you walk brand new into something that's far outside your personal realm of experience, you are unable to perceive all facets of your own miserable suckery. It's only after you start to learn a little...

Now that's just classy. Now a public discussion chocked full of undeserved concern for your well-being has become an opportunity for you to haggle with someone over their rates. I've been watching this thread, see-sawing between feeling a little amusement over your skill at playing people's...

Scubaboard should have a special "Don't Like" button... maybe something that only shows results if the decision's unanimous.

OMG-- yes, of course it would be, otherwise you'd lose half your gas when shutting down a post. Sorry folks, it was really late/early when I wrote that....

Hmmm... now I see the flaw in my understanding of what we see in the video. There are no regulators to be seen, so I assumed both tank valves must surely be turned off since we don't see air erupting from the outlets. But if they were turned off, then of course the isolator valve wouldn't be...

If a leaking tank valve were turned off, there would be bubbles. If a leaking tank valve were turned on, there would be a LOT of bubbles :blinking: ---- Edit ---- Now that I just wrote that, the mystery of only one tank dropping pressure arises again. Ermaclob, by any chance did you have a...

Folks... look at the video he posted. The leak is coming from the isolator valve, it's not a burst disk or tank neck o-ring that's leaking. I agree that one of the tank valves must have been closed for only one tank to have drained down. It looks like several posts have been made by those who...

Never worry-- love will find a way!

Bob, thanks for the account. I have to say that I'm impressed that Dylan attended and spoke. His behavior has been far from perfect, but that's something many of us have in common. This had to be an uncomfortable situation for him to face, and it sounds like he went through it as a man. It...