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I've done it twice and would do it again. They only allow you to bring a mask and generally allow a wrist computer, but they supply the rest. Some tips: 1) the first time they issued me a wetsuit by looking at me, the second time they asked my size. Both times they foisted a 2X on me when I...

I don't have much too add beyond what has been said. I can find little in Medscape online literature on the association of cerebral AVM and diving. There is a lot on pulmonary AVM and diving, which can be genetically (rarely) associated with the brain variety --- pulmonary AVM are like PFOs...

Seriously, I think there is a whole flock of women attracted to the killer mytsique, even if the mystique isn't proven. Klaus von Bulow once remarked that his social standing rose when people thought he killed his wife, and fell when there was some doubt raised about his role in her death...

weird...I wonder if he has life insurance on this new wife

We just lost our cat of 13 years to renal failure. It is a painful ordeal... When our dog goes, I think we'll get a parrot. They usually outlive their owners.

Of note, the last remaining survivor of the sinking, a woman in her nineties, announced today that she is auctioning off her remaining Titanic artifacts to help pay for her nursing home care because she is now broke. I guess she didn't happen to have a Coeur de Mer, or whatever they called...

The chief risk of pseudotumor cerebri (PC) is visual loss from papilledema or optic nerve swelling. HOWEVER, optic nerve swelling can be hard for some doctors to diagnose. Moreover, there are conditions like pseudopapilledema (harmless) that mimic it. The diagnosis of PC requires documentation...

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I'm not being critical of the diving ...it's nice for diving to get some good press and what these people did was great. But to me, recreational diving is putting on a tank and swimming in a nice clear reef for an hour. Wreck diving, to an unexplored site,to almost 500 ft in the north Atlantic...

The articles say the wreck was explored by "recreational divers"...at 450 ft depth? Some recreational diving...

Not seen Deliverance? That just makes me want to SQUEEAAALLL...

Citizen Kane, supposedly the greatest movie of all time...I've seen snippets, including the famous Rosebud ending, but could never force myself to watch the whole thing The Color Purple, multiple awards, but nothing blows up in it so it has no appeal for me... Birth of a Nation...a silent...

Oh, and one more thing...if Obama wants to dispel all rumors about his religious persuasion, he should quit pronouncing Pakistan as if he went to the Bin laden school of diction.

I recall Gerald Ford asserting that Poland would be surprised to learn it was in the Soviet sphere of influence, so we have come a long way. Whatever you think about their politics, both these guys at least gave the appearance that they knew something about world events. As debates go, in...

One thing that often gets lost in the discussions of new students is that this is RECREATIONAL diving. It's recreation...it's supposed to be fun. The problem with many OW courses is that they cram so many hair-raising (to beginners) and stressful things into a few dives that the experience...

Oh, and one more thing: WATCH YOUR AIR. New divers in a cold environment tend to suck air and overuse their bc. In a low viz setting, and given the other activity going on, DMs and instructors can't monitor everyone's spgs for them. If the class runs 40 or 45 minutes to do skills, that may test...

The biggest problem most new divers face going from a pool environment to an OW environment, I think, is proper weighting, especially if you did pool training without a wetsuit and then go to a quarry setting in a 5 or 7 mm suit and hood. Add in the old adage "fear floats", and the first time OW...

I re-read all the posts in this thread and I see no one blaming this accident on a lack of skills. I raised the issue of whether this was considered a "difficult" dive site and got a sort of generic response that a dive site can be made difficult if one doesn't have good skills, but no one...

Surgery or diving, dead is dead. Your opinions speak for themselves, let others judge.

You didn't address my point; you criticize the low level of competency of OW courses, but a dive to 100 ft is, by definition, beyond the competency of an OW diver. Is there no responsibility of the crew of dive boats to check the competency of their customers for a given site? In this case...