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Guess everybody has a story from there! About ten years ago, we were on our first dive of the day on the third or fourth day of the trip. A new guy joined the boat. Surfer type kid. Ran around on deck like a cocker spaniel looking for a place to piddle on the ride out. You could tell he...

I've seen integrity defined as doing the right thing when nobody is watching. The gist of a lot of the posts seem to go to that. I've been trying to implement the mentor thing in just about everything, not just diving. Someone once told me that you can't move up in an organization until you...

Since my first post on this thread, I bought a pair of jets. Used them under ice a couple of months ago, and been out just messing around with them since. Today I backed up an instructor who didn't have any help. Since I'm a rescue diver, but not a DM, it's pretty much just hang out and...

That you've opted not to dive in the vast majority of the water on the face of the earth where it would get very uncomfortable without them very quickly. That's a lot of stuff you'll never see in warm water! I don't always wear them, but I do always have them. Did a night dive in Roaten...

But fo the most part, airs out/dries in the bed of the pickup on the way home (1-1/2 ~ 2 hrs). Drysuit gets hung in the backyard (garage? ~ with avg < 20% humidity, hanging on the tree is pretty effective!) on a rack until dry. Anything else that isn't dry gets laid out to dry, and then it...

is it looks like he has a buddy! Look under his left arm. That look like a similar thing? Looks like the double banding.

if you looked at the definition of a "computer" in the dicitionary it referred to a person, not a mchine as we know it today. It's simply an object that take input, calculates/processes info & spitsit back out. The human brain is still the best computer invented. Anyone out ther want to...

Slow down, and smell the proverbial "flowers" I'm in a time crunch at work all week, so "hurry up!" gets left at the desk Friday afternoon! It's become as much a social thing as anything else. It's my escape from reality so anything I can do to prolong it has become commonplace. Of...

After I voted, it showed lik 73 million votes. I guess this board has really grown!:confused:

Way back in the dark ages of J valves & horse collars, my instructor had us do a little excercise to personally demonstrate just how significant water pressure was. He indicated in class that as little as 18" of water could be sufficient external pressure to prevent you from being strong...

Last Saturday, I was at the local "hole" that divers around the southwest come to, especially the winter, to get their O/W dives completed. Since joining the board, my radar goes on a lot more around there than it used to. So, while waiting for the rest of my group to arrive, I strolled around...

Personal Responsibility...what a concept! And being in my right mind by virtue of being left handed, (or maybe it's the other way around?).... well, now I don't remember...it took too long to read everything, but it was interesting. Yeah. it's Friday, and I'll have another beer...

On second read, it looks to me like the biggest obstacle in this is the requirement that the gas be mixed prior to filling the tank. Any concurrence to the assertion that if the proposal was revised to allow PP fils directly to the tank rather than banking, that this would really almost be...

I don't read it as prohibitting PP fills, but rather requires it if the compressor doesn't meet the criteria. I think this is what my LDS does. He has banks of air and an O2 bank. Subtle wording. Did I miss soemthing? Isn't that membrane system like the most expensive thing out there...

So what are medical gas suppliers using? Commons sense (I know~ a foreign concept to OSHA!) would dictate that if a system/method is adequate for the medical industry, ought to be acceptable to the general public. And it's odd that it would be OK for a customer to use the process, but not an...

My guess would be the latter. Somewhere, sometime in an inspection of an "accident" some over zealoous ureaucrat trying to scramble up the ladder took up the cuase in the name of a "safe working environment" without any comprehensive understanding of the real world situation. In the...

Not necessarily, but it will take some quick & persistent action. The steel industry went through a similar stuation with some regulations that effectively had a significant economic impact on both fabricators & erectors. It ended up that much of what was in the initial regualtion stayed...

I really need a fix. Haven't been wet since mid February, and this just egged on the urge even more. Maybe Saturday for a dip. I need to move closer to the water? =-)

Didn't wade through all of it, but been through enough of the secton on constuction to know the gist of the context. Some in the construction industry has wormed around some of this stuff by never having "employees". Independant subcontractors working for themselves have skated around OSHA...

It's at about 9500 ft elevation, so it was very dry. Although Saturday morning it was a brisk -21 deg F. You can see the "hut" in the early part of the clip. It has a little area you can get into and to dress.change. We had to abandon it for Saturday. the diving Friday grew the hole...