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Would you rather have another victim if the search goes badly? The sonar/video is very effective. You are obviously not grasping just how dangerous it is do dive to that area/depth/conditions.

I do not think it is the appropriate time - given that there is an ongoing investigation - to give out this information, assume, surmise or otherwise release any information regarding the diver himself, what actually happened or who was involved.

It was not.

This may be a subject for a different thread but for a recreational diver, there's not a lot to accomplish. As a technical diver, you have to keep your skills, muscle memory and procedures fresh so it is a very beneficial training environment.

Well said man! Now that it is collapsed you have concrete, rebar, the collapsed road that ran along the top, the truss under the road, pipes, beams and big a$$ trees. Throw in the bottom of jello that silts, almost no visibility, dark as night, cold - OH and it's 220 fricken feet underwater -...

Conditions as of last night at 6:30PM at 220ffw at the base of the dam were 5ft viz, 52 degrees. Visibility at the bottom is terrible, especially with backscatter from the video lights. The low viz at the bottom has a lot to do with suspended particles that just hang there. The bottom at that...

You are going to find a different opinion from every person on here. There was a good post from someone with a lot of time on their hands with questions to ask yourself. My Opinion: Remote transmitters have no place in technical diving. I dive a liquivision and love it. It is gross...

I am confused here. Are you inferring that you are self-educating yourself in decompression diving through use of an H-Valve? This does not make any sense.....

x2 This is me and my pony :D

In the trimix course you have to do a rescue of a tec diver with both of you in full tec gear and deco bottles. Not an easy task but with practice you can get out of the hog harness. As far as real life - correct, I would leave my on if it aided in flotation, would undo their straps and use...

They told me it was when I was forced to repeat 3rd grade - JUST KIDDING!!! :D

That blows. I just meet in a casual setting to get to know potential students/clients so we can talk about everything. It is like a job interview afterall but I guess some instructors are pretty full of themselves...

I'm confused - what was this about?

If you are determining your technical diving education by price then you need a priority adjustment.......

Not sure what you mean by one or more license but you have to have your Deep and Enriched Air specialties before starting Tec40

Check your TDI courses - Adv Nitrox, Ext. Range, Deco Proc, Trimix, Adv Trimix. Also no intro class for DSAT. It's not a coincidence that DSAT is the same number of classes as TDI now. It is a PITA for the instructor now though. Tec40/45/50 are done as one class as with the old TecDeep...

Who knows. In the old days you could get your instructor rating from any agency for $10 and a bologna sandwich it seems. When I got mine, I followed the Instructor course, had multiple dives and classroom (7 for trimix, can't remember for tecdeep) and took the tests. I know there are people...

Seriously, HOW many times do we have to go through this painful multithread collection of differing opinions? In the end, It is the INSTRUCTOR!!!!! I am about ready to crossover to TDI due to this Tec40/45/50 crap but in the end, it is the instructor who makes or breaks the training. Case...

Not TRUE - Jesus, doesn't anyone research anything before they post anymore???

Go for it - my main dive buddy dives those and loves it. I dive one recreationally but for deep, you'll have to pry my Poseidon extreme Deep out of my cold dead hands :)