Search results

Continuing the thread from another angle. Why do PSDs use FFM anyway? The only two reasons that spring to mind are commo gear and contaminated water. Any other reasons? ciao! leam

Me, of course, being the newbie... Yucky water, silted, and a thousand rednecks throwing bottles into our corner of the lake. We had two manikins, one child and one infant. The Team Coordinator quit calling them "dummies" because the rest of us kept answering. :) My first dive was good...

That would be: http://www.oceantechnologysystems.com/interspirofullface.shtml What are the thoughts on positive pressure or not? ciao! leam

I'll have to work on modifying this a little. I have a Typhoon Ranger Sport dry suit with an unprotected back zipper. That and the wing nuts on my backplate probably won't play well together. :) I think I'm going to use duct tape on my suspender straps. Left side gets a wide bit of tape...

Couple things I don't understand. Does this mean your weight belt is restricted by your BC? That is, rec diving says to put the weight belt on last and take it off first. It sounds like the lower part of the BC would prevent an easy remove of just the weight belt. On the other hand it sounds...

Packing my ready bag today I thought to put my defog bottle into the mask box speed things up. Then I thought "I bet there are a lot of tips and tricks the experienced PSD folks on Scubaboard have for organizing gear and prepparing for a fast deployment." :D So how about it guys, can you...

One of the more respected: http://www.diverescueintl.com/ Another one: http://www.iadrs.org/ Lots of Ice training but the leader "wrote the book" on PSD: http://teamlgs.com Literally...

Wow, sounds like you guys are being hit hard. One thing I'd suggest is keeping touch with the folks who have left. Not in trying to get them back on th eteam though that'd be great. But just to let them know you're there for them. If they've been in things that long they will probably be...

Call Dave at Capital Scuba, 919.570.3483 (DIVE). He has an instructor named Mike who lives in the SE part of the state. I'm in Charlotte, BTW. ciao! leam

Congrats! Hopefully some of the pressure will be off as the new folks transition into to carrying some of the load. Outside of "minimum qualifications", how long does it normally take for a new person to become a capable diver? ciao! leam

Unfortunately most of our FDs are volunteer; there's seldom anyone at the station when we train. ciao! leam

What do you normally use for washing off scuba equipment that has been "in the environment"? Also, what special circumstances, like leaking feul, would require additional decon methods and materials? What would they be? We normally use a dip bucket of soapy water and then a dip bucket of...

I wish I was there to sit with you. leam

We lost a skilled diver 1 Jan. A guy with many dives on the Andrea Doria goes in a quarry. Great guy too, not what one would call "fair". ciao! leam

Yes! :D One day I will write clearly. Doens't look like today is the day though. We have two tanks, AL 80 and a small (30 breathe?) pony. Both go into a manifold that lets me manually switch which bottle provides gas. This goes to the Aga mask. We also have an Air2 that comes off the AL 80...

Sorry, I didn't fully communicate. Yes, we use the Air2 combination inflator/2nd air source in addition to our Aga masks, manifold, etc. It eliminates single point of failure (SPoF) worries though I've never had to use one for real. I also agree that there may be a better solution but I'm not...

No humor here. We use the Aga mask with a pony and manifold. While I can't argue the advantages of durability or usefulness in contaminated water, at least the idea is good. With this set up there is no single point of failure in the air system. ciao! leam

Yeah, with the team I feel trim at 6'1"/250lbs. Everyone is helpful and friendly; there are a couple female non-divers on the team so it's not bad in that respect. At least I can't sense it though obviously I'm not her. The size issue is real though. The team uses Seaquest Black Diamond...

Cool. So the answer with the above and the DAN article is that soft, easily replaceable contacts should be fine. Keep some moistening solution handy. Thanks! Now I just have to overcome the fear of sticking my finger in my eye... ciao! leam

As a newbie I can assure you more training is on my mind. :) Yet I see the same issue here, low turnout for most meetings and training sessions. For me some things that would help is to regularly schedule training in advanced and block things together. For example, we had a 30 minute Blood...