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  1. seaducer

    Was My Captain Fair?

    While I want to agree with the spirit of this comment, the sad reality is that I just can not. Perhaps the dive op and instructor do wish to put the customer above the ALMIGHTY DOLLAR, as evidenced by the option to continue the dives later, however: The bank that owns that boat puts the...
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    Adequacy of OW and AOW

    I am 110 % confident you have rock solid statistics to back this up:thumb:
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    Intermediate East Coast Dive Spots

    If you have the gear and like wreck diving there are numerous wrecks to dive, with boats leaving the docks daily in places like MA, NY, NJ down to NC. There are some great freshwater spots already listed plus Canada has some great cold water diving I am dieing to try one of these years. I would...
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    Good Job, PADI!

    I used to read the Northeast version cover to cover, but my subscription has lapsed. It was a great read but ironically I found the travel articles more frustrating than the mainstream magazines. I guess the local sites they wrote about are far more accessible to me, so I paid more attention...
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    Question Panic in the experienced diver?

    I think panic begins to set in, or at least is a bigger threat to set in once you come to a point where you have no control over the situation AND/OR you lose understanding of the situation you are in. For the vast majority of people, training and experience will push that envelope back, as...
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    Question Panic in the experienced diver?

    I can not agree. I think things like panic are hardwired into our brains, perhaps at one point it was a survival tool, maybe it helped when the lions came...I don't know. That eerily calm voice we hear on radio recordings of pilots talking about how they are going to die very soon in a plane...
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    Hallucinations

    I have been down to 140 on air, and the only effects I noticed (or remember) is that whenever I looked at my guages, I had to look more than once to remember what they said. I spent a lot of time rechecking...which is fine there was nothing else worth looking at for me anyway...
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    GUE/DIR/WKPP vs the world?

    That may be what the thread is about but IMO the WKPP are not the villans here, if indeed there are any villans at all. The WKPP is a private organization to my understanding, and as such they are certainly within their rights to lobby for whatever they see as being on their own behalf. We...
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    Question Panic in the experienced diver?

    When I think of panic, I think of someone frozen in fear, not able to act and perhaps not even able to think or is unaware of those around them. Maybe that is Hollywood stuff, I don't know. The closest I ever came while diving was about 11 years ago. My father had undergone his second surgery...
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    Swimming Skills Assessment

    Disabled divers are not always fully certified, many have restrictions such as having to dive with 2 fully abled buddys who are certified specifically to dive with disabled people. It is precisely because their disability may impact their ability to operate competently in the water that those...
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    GUE/DIR/WKPP vs the world?

    Ok, if the reason that Wakulla is open to the WKPP only isbecause of their record and SOP, why not close all caves to anyone not part of the WKPP? Surely there are other cave systems on State land? I don't know, maybe there aren't any but there are a fair amount of cave systems being safely...
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    GUE/DIR/WKPP vs the world?

    While I am not wholey qualified to judge, that certainly sounds important for me, now the question remains would the presence of other cave divers not diving in conjunction with the WKPP hinder their ability to continue this research? Im not in disagreement with a lot of this, and I think the...
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    GUE/DIR/WKPP vs the world?

    I'm not a caver nor do I live in Florida, but to me this really is the crux of the issue. Will recreational diving hinder the science that WKPP is doing? Is this science really crucial to our understanding of...what? Unless the science is important enough to lock out all others, and that those...
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    Adequacy of OW and AOW

    That is pretty much my experience. In fact all the classes with various instructors and different agencies, I can honestly say they were all good classes. I think sometimes people get caught into thinking a course is an end in itself, but in reality the course is only an introduction. With...
  15. seaducer

    PADI vs NAUI

    Do both, then you can teach both and travel anywhere.
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    Speciality Dives you Wish Existed

    Coed Naked Diving Specialty. Might be my only chance:D
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    For Folks with poor vision

    I dive with my contacts in all the time. While I have never tried this, apparently if you wear soft contacts and squint you can open them UW without losing them. I might be somewhat reluctant to do so unless I needed to because you are introducing the chances for an infection if you don't...
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    Why do you Lie?

    I agree AND disagree. It depends on the situation. If I know the person I am diving with and we plan to do a buddy dive (my usual buddy and I dive team, S.O.B. and solo) then he is carrying my reserve and I his, no ifs ands or buts. I trust him to read his guage so an OK means OK, one of us will...
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    Rescue vs. advanced

    Im PADI and another agency, not NAUI, so I am not familiar with NAUI's AOW course. However if it is the same as PADI's AOW and you can take rescue before AOW, I would do that. Rescue will help make you more aware of potential issues, not only in your buddies but also in yourself. AOW can...
  20. seaducer

    Nitrox Question (lack of energy and heartburn)

    I like to think of myself as a fairly fart smeller, but some of those words went right over my head.:D I guess the what I am trying to get at, is that if hyperbaric O2 has an affect on wound healing, could that be one of the driving factors that causes people to feel generally better after...
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