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Goddamn it, Mike, this is no place for facts and deductive reasoning. This is where we all come for wild speculation and gut reactions!

In a rubbermaid bin. In my storage unit. Under a pile of old coats. At least that's where I last saw it.

Soft Handmount with QRM | Dive Rite

Bump. Still looking for plugs.

Looking for a handful of port plugs for the old Poseidon 300s. The plugs that people commonly think of as "metric" with the hex head and the little nipple at the end. I could use 1/2 dozen or so, but would be happy with more or less. If they happen to still be attached to a 300 first stage and...

This was one of the other things that twigged me about the entire report. Though the class was finished (ink still wet on the c-card, but finished nonetheless) there still very much existed a mentor/mentee relationship. It's inevitable. So why was the more senior diver out of the water first...

Mig

Yes, yes. You're very clever and experienced. But I'm not going to really be able to learn anything until there's a Mig 15 reference used.

Is there much more to know about the accident? The instructor certainly won't talk (or, possibly, wasn't even there). There are a few strong theories which have been proposed, most of which go back to lack of training and experience. So... get trained properly, build experience slowly. And...

I like to call BS when I see it. So that when newer, more impressionable divers see things from self-proclaimed experts there is at least someone there planting the seed of doubt. So they don't think they have to aspire to control their buoyancy with overfilled counterlungs or to practice...

A lot of nonsense.

I assume, with your being so well versed with the standards you're an instructor? revo, probably, knowing it as well?

Yes. Years ago. No. It's and outdated skill that is no longer in the curriculum because it's more dangerous than anything. The modern philosophy is more along the lines of: "Have enough bailout. Even if you need to use your wing to carry it."

Yeah. Was this for fun, or was it a drunken dare? Dear anyone and everyone- Don't do this.

Maybe. Maybe you're suggesting, with an air of authority that someone which may mislead someone who doesn't know better, that the right way of doing things is an outdated and silly practice that leaves people dangerously underweighted for decompression diving. Maybe. Yeah, I'm 41. But I've...

Nope. Totally wrong. Instead of adding the amount of gas required to offset buoyancy into an airspace specifically designed for that function you should instead use the same amount of gas by, evidently in part, way overinflating your loop. Because a guy knew a guy once that screwed up using...

And if you bailout, but were perfectly neutrally buoyant with 5 full tanks? I assume you deliberately flood the unit to add ballast? Or do you prefer to have to spend hours swimming straight downwards to maintain your stop depth?

This is silly.

Except that your takeaways, in this order, are subjective (talented diver) and demonstrably wrong (introductory course and tutelage). I was just thinking, "I can't believe this thread is still going."

But the picture on the AH FB page is with him wearing a semi-dry suit. Perhaps the sister didn't discriminate?