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  1. DaleC

    Feb. 26, 2017 Ogden Point Breakwater (Victoria) video

    Great video with lots of life. And you found a cute puppy to pet... Same day, across the way:
  2. DaleC

    Snorkel tube in scuba diving

    People have opinion about the use of, and seeing the need for, a snorkel (or other pieces of kit for that matter) usually based on the limited scope of diving they do. For example; I don't generally use a snorkel with modern gear but find it handy while diving vintage stuff. In the latter...
  3. DaleC

    Redundant Air: H Valves, Ponies, Doubles, And The Surface.

    Respectfully, I don't think using Quero's case as a redundant air source error is any more valid than using Lynne's as a knock against the buddy system. Other factors involved. Boulderjohn makes a good argument but one could ask why starting an ascent with so little reserve in the main tank...
  4. DaleC

    If you dive alone, you die alone ...

    What's really funny is when people get worried about me solo bicycling... I recently did a trip and everyone asked the same thing: Who you going with? By myself. What if something happens to you? It's the Trans Canada Hwy, I'm sure the police will call. The other night my wife asked me: "You...
  5. DaleC

    Advanced Maritime EMS?

    Well some one sure does... Hyper-acute diving accident casualties. Does the Chamber actually use that term or are you just making it up? The only time I've heard hyper acute used in health care is specifically in terms of describing a stroke phase.
  6. DaleC

    Advanced Maritime EMS?

    "Use and apply the basic life saving skills you have learned in a real world and active clinical setting, and you'll be ready knowing what to do and what to expect as a recreational diver First Responder managing a frontline dive accident scene." So, you are basically saying what I've said all...
  7. DaleC

    Advanced Maritime EMS?

    I'm talking to Kev. I've already said what you do is fine and I wished you well. You see it as negative but I see throwing some one off chamber course out there as the next logical step in FA training to be just him boasting about what he does. There's a history there. And, if you go back to...
  8. DaleC

    Advanced Maritime EMS?

    Wow, now we're treating battle field trauma and shipping off to Afghanistan... You are sounding cooler by the moment. Yeah, basic competency in F/A skills - what a concept. For a diver with < 100 dives, rescue diver and no EMT training sounds like a plan eh? Imagine if every non professional...
  9. DaleC

    Advanced Maritime EMS?

    It's an interesting field. The idea for portable chambers has been around for many many years with lots of designs being developed in the 60's. You can google vintage designs to see some. Many of them did actually work but there was a problem with them being mainly one person vessels and thus...
  10. DaleC

    Advanced Maritime EMS?

    never mind...
  11. DaleC

    Advanced Maritime EMS?

    Kev, as noted by the OP and realized early on by most, the OP is from Mass. so... Francesea, I guess the question is what you want to achieve as a goal and where you want to spend your free time. If you want to be a diver with solid F/A skills I stand by suggestions that those can best be...
  12. DaleC

    Advanced Maritime EMS?

    Well... I think you what you are saying amid the excess verbage is that chamber crews take people into chambers... in there they provide basic and advanced life support... the relevancy of Recompression Chamber Op's etal doesn't apply to first responders... whose primary task is to rescue...
  13. DaleC

    Advanced Maritime EMS?

    If you are 12+ hours from evac (such as a remote charter) you had better not be the primary care giver available as a guest/customer. I'm not trying to be argumentative but there is nothing in a "marine environment" medical course that is more "helpful" than a good land based course gives you...
  14. DaleC

    Advanced Maritime EMS?

    Curious what those are exactly? The ABCD's are exactly the same either way.
  15. DaleC

    If you dive alone, you die alone ...

    If you said every diver should have those skills I would agree, but I feel no need to supplement an agencies income by taking a specific course. Don't you feel every diver should have self rescue and self discipline skills and, if so, what course did they learn that in? Being able to take care...
  16. DaleC

    Diving shallow on Nitrox.

    I don't believe there is any practical benefit in 20' unless you are doing exceptionally long repetitive dives. While theoretical nitrogen uptake might be lessened on those long dives, in cold water at least, the risk of temperature stress and its effect on DCS suceptibility would mitigate that...
  17. DaleC

    Building 2nd setup. Pony inflater/octo question

    Like Bob I sometimes use an inflator off my pony for powering my drysuit when diving vintage but otherwise no. One problem is needing to top off your pony too often, or not and risk diving with too little reserve. Another is sometimes diving with pony and sometimes not and having to swap...
  18. DaleC

    Advanced Maritime EMS?

    Curious what issues would require a separate course for diving. The most common major injuries would be: Drowning DCS Over expansion injury Drowning would best be dealt with by a life guard type course and transport to acute care. DCS in the field mainly revolves around O2 therapy and...
  19. DaleC

    If you dive alone, you die alone ...

    Oh well, I wasn't doing anything that day anyway. I find that diving off the grid for the last few years I haven't faced these sort of issues much. My buddies, when I have them, are photographers who are mostly focused on the camera. Buddy check? No thanks, I use VISA. Once in a while I'll...
  20. DaleC

    Porteau Cove, Family day

    Did a nice dive with my friend at Porteau this family day. She was shooting infra red and I was working on camera skills with my new Olympus TG4. My macro kung fu was wanting but I got some landscape mode shots:
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