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Mr Scorkl missed the boat on this deal. The dudes selling the concept on Indegogo already have over $150,000 dollars. He's going to have to sell a lot of Scorkls to catch up. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/minidive-mini-scuba-tank-refilled-by-the-user#/ I did a little snooping around and...

oh man..... I was drinking energy drinks for almost 15 years. I so loved their bubbly, sugary, chemically, stimulant goodness.... mmmm But I started having bad stomach issues and had to cut out caffeine, cold turkey. Quitting was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Starting your day with...

Ever since the Triton scam (World's First Artificial Gills Re-breather), I've been watching these crowd funding sites for undersea technology developments. I have been blown away by the blatant and obvious scams posted there. I've come to the conclusion that crowdfunding is great for charitable...

If humanity is to survive our issues and progress into the distant future, it will be because of those who had hope and took action and it will be in spite of those who gave up hope and did nothing.

Yeah, I'm not sure what's up with that quiz.. It said I'll live to be 88 as a nonsmoker but apparently, I can start smoking and still live to be 82. That just doesn't sound right...

I took the quiz! It says I'll live to be 88! However, I don't know how much credence to give it considering they didn't ask about pizza or half pound Angus cheeseburgers with extra bacon. A couple of things I got from this thread... First, I'm not the only diver thinking about this type of...

Awesome answers you guys! I'm sure I could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars searching for various cardiac conditions that I may or my not have. It looks like generally, an echocardiogram and a stress test might be the two tests one would need to really feel ok about one's heart. If it's...

Ok.. ok… I have lived with the stories of 50-something old dudes like me having sudden and lethal cardiac events. Everyday my inherent hypochondria keeps whispering in my ear as I read about older divers dying during a dive of suspected cardiac conditions. There are all these medical names for...

I never noticed that before... Now I can't stop looking at it.

I would end up with the OP's left over PSI when I would take in an LP steel rated for 2400 and get a 3000 PSI fill.

This shark incident was actually a surfing incident but every time I tell people I'm in the scuba business, they always ask about sharks. Hope it gets a few smiles...

I believe it was Confucius who said in 500 BC, "a man with two different dive computers never really knows his true deco status" I think it was Confucius....

Ok... I've been looking into this 'Minidive' thing trying to decide if I should unleash the flying troll monkeys against these people and their dubious project. First, There are high pressure hand pumps out there for 200 BAR. However, it is doubtful that these people have found a practical way...

Oak Island last night.... Another professional dive carried out with class and safety! Great job John and Howard.

All the time and money we waste on compressors and fill stations, these people can fill a scuba tank with a bicycle pump! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/minidive-mini-scuba-tank-refilled-by-the-user#/ Even if we assume a divemaster physically powerful enough to compress 3.5 cubic feet of...

I grew up diving in Texas and on occasion we'd dive the George Vancouver located just six miles off the beach. Conditions had to be just right but there were times when the seas flattened and the green water would come closer to shore such that visibility could get up to twenty feet. It was only...

wow.... This reminds me of an off hand joke on a boat years ago... My dive buddies and I were offshore on a dive trip to a wreck in the Gulf of Mexico. We were 30 miles out and couldn't find the wreck. We ran a search pattern around the coordinates and saw nothing on the bottom finder. After...

I think the holistic treatment for barnacles growing in the body is to introduce whelks into the patients. The whelks will feed on the barnacles and keep them under control. The next step in the treatment is to introduce crabs and isopods to eat the whelks. The final step is to introduce...

Having barnacles growing inside your body is bad enough but having an ecosystem of the plankton they feed on growing in your body must really be bad. But they couldn't put it on TV if it wasn't true. Animal Planet also has other highly scientific shows like "Finding Bigfoot" and "Hillbilly...

While I was working at a dive store years ago, a browsing customer asked me how many PSI a Spare Air can hold. I told him 3000 PSI and he said, "Wow! That little tank holds as much air as one of those big ones." Sadly, he actually did mean air, not pressure.