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Some observations: 1) there is plenty of time to watch TV and game screens when you are old, like me...I wish I had taken up diving when I was younger and stronger 2) you can watch and play other people's TVs and PS3's, but you can't dive someone else's C-card. 3) you don't give any...

This info was in the NBC dateline report, if I am remembering it properly. She finished her OW checkout dives (barely, according to her instructor, who was interviewed) in a local quarry just before the honeymoon dive trip. I believe that her fatal dive was the very first one they did...

Wouldn't the ability to make a 100' descent/ascent make an AOW certification, not just an OW cert, necessary or at least preferable? :confused:

We all pray for a good outcome. This month's issue of Scuba Diving lists this dive site as a minimal skill level of intermediate to advanced. The number of incidents might validate this, or may simply reflect a very high volume of divers. For those who know the site, is this skill rating...

AN's are benign lesions usually affecting only the inner ear (auditory nerve, or internal acoustic meatus). They usually cause mild to total hearing loss and, unless they are very large, nothing else. Specifically, unless there is brain stem distortion or hydrocephalus, they do not cause...

I wonder if Australia could try him "in abstentia". That was done in the US in the famous case of the Philadelphia man who killed his girlfriend and fled to France decades ago (I believe PA Senator Specter was the DA at the time). He was convicted here while still living in France and just a few...

For the sake of all those who want a "smoking gun" and think that this type of evidence can't convict, go back and see what got Scott Peterson not only convicted, but a place on death row for the death of his wife Lacey. The body was so decomposed, they weren't even sure it had been murdered...

In this case, the diver 1) lied about his computer malfunctioning 2) grossly lied about his ascent rate (note: there was no "I don't remember" or "I'm fuzzy on the details" in these lies...watch his police interview, he is very graphic on the battery issue and on how he was afraid of...

In terms of lawsuits: you are confusing criminal and civil law. People are sued all the time for doing legal things. A lawsuit requires three things: 1) damages 2) negligence and 3) proof that the negligence directly caused the damages. Negligence means that someone deviated from the accepted...

Murder doesn't have to be planned, only first degree murder. Murder implies committing an act with the intent to kill...the intent can be formulated instantaneously or with planning, it is doing an act that the perpetrator knows and intends will likely cause death that counts. As for "trial by...

I believe that prosecutors, like every other human on earth, are prone to error or worse. I believe that some prosecutors might avoid cases that are difficult or time consuming, preferring to keep their conviction rate high. And their work load light. Unless of course, the DA's office is unique...

Really? A show of hands here: how many people on this board who, before even getting married, in their early twenties, sought to increase their future spouse's life insurance policies and make sure that the benficiaries were correct???? In the NBC piece, they had an insurance expert say that...

It sounds like your main problem is a sleep disturbance of some kind. The length of sleep may not be as important as the quality. The feeling of never being rested is typical of sleep apnea and other things (like carpal tunnel disease) that cause frequent awakenings (awakenings which you aren't...

After a little net surfing, I found that there is a syndrome known as spontaneous hearing loss or SHL...it occurs in younger people in one ear over a several hour to several day time scale. No cause has ever been identified, although leading speculation is viral. The interesting thing is that...

It does sound a little premature to consider the situation irreversible, either as regards hearing loss or the future diving.

There are good aspects to socialized or single pay systems, such as better primary care. Our primary care lags behind, I admit. As for specialty care, that's another matter. On my last trip to Canada, one of the lobster fisherman was waiting for a hip replacement. The waiting list was almost...

The flow of blood to the brain is regulated by blood CO2, the higher the CO2 the higher the blood flow, and vice versa. The main determinant of blood CO2 is respiratory rate. Unless someone is on a ventilator, it is difficult to impossible to raise blood CO2 and affect blood flow consistently...

Not a lot of info to go on...what is the age of this person, his previous health, etc and also, did they scan his head or involve an ENT (ear specialist)? Barotrauma to the middle or inner ear might be the culprit, but the story seems wrong. Normally, the symptoms occur quickly, with pain...

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