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Okay, folks, how about we calm down a bit and keep the personal observations out of this, before some serious surgery becomes necessary, please?

:lol: Sorry, Gary, but ya gotta admit that the image of you standing in the water with your mike sticking out is truly a funny one! :D Rob

Ooops! and Brrr! Glad you're okay. Time for some hot toddies! Rob :D

Okay, due to member complaints, I removed this thread while I took a look at it. I return it now to the previously scheduled discussion. There are, obviously, two sides to this discussion, and more than several ways of looking at each diving area. What we try to encourage here is...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FRANK!!

Okay, kids, let's keep it light! :D (Not meant for you, UP, you are!) I think there is absolutely no mistake about where I stand politically. Given that, I still find the songs and jokes funny! It all came out all right in the end, and, VP or not, he deserves to get razzed about something like...

If I can see the bottom and it is in the 80-100 fsw range, it's head-down and...whiz-bang onto the sand. A last moment roll up-right and a touch of gas in the BC makes for a stand-up landing! :D If it is deep, dark, and mysterious...a descent line to the hook makes much more sense, along...

What Doc said, Catharine. One of the two. My guess...sinus squeeze. Why? You've been diving long enough to remember to equalilze your mask. Cheers!

If I may ask, which Buhlmann tables, and why particularly those?

The "Holy Grail" of commercial full-face masks is the Widolf. It is extremely tough, low volume, and has been rated "the most comfortable full-face mask ever produced". The fit and comfort level is so high due to the special construction of the skirt. The face-plate is tempered glass. It is...

Good memory there, DA! :D Evidently the Poseidon version is weak. As two of the folks say on that thread, the servo is a weak-link piece. I haven't tried it myself, and certainly won't bother now! ;)

Well, DA, you ARE reading it wrong. Taliesin came to the Public Safety Diving forum because, as he said: Obviously, you come to our forum, and ask us what we use in our jobs, and the answer you get (largely) is the Divator Mark II, colloquially known as the "AGA" because of it's history. So...

The reason the AGA is the AL80 of the Public Safety Diving world it that it is what it is...the BEST all around mask for the job, bar none, in terms of general fit, function, reliabililty, and toughness for the tough job at hand. As for not seeing an advantadge with the positive pressure...

Fully agree with Gary D. and Leam, get the AGA with the positive pressure, and ambient vent! Call John Hott: www.oceantechnologysystems.com

A spare set of sensors, spare batteries, O2 compatible lube, the special tool for the "hat ring", volt-ohm meter, hex keys and port plugs for the regulators...that's about it.

I really thought we had put an end to this nonsense! As was posted by IwakuniDiver, when he asked an active duty SEAL: "He looked at me, laughed hysterically, and said, "You're @$#ing kidding me right? That stuff in the movie was about as accurate as the ejection accident scene in Top Gun!"...

If any of you folks seriously believes we have divers buried in the mud on the ocean floor at 3600fsw breathing a liquid substitute for our normal gaseous medium while "waiting for passing submarines", I have news for you. When your company tells you to go for your next random drug screen...

Continental Airlines, but not Florida. Try Houston InterGalactic B-777 pilot base. :D

OE2X, et al, True, it is a standard in law enforcement and jurisprudence that one is supposed to know what is legal and what is not. Because you claim you didn't know what you were doing is illegal does not excuse your behaviour. You have a duty to know what is right and wrong. My remarks...

It was found that a "one atmosphere" suit was too cumbersome and stiff. The suits, with their rebreather packs operate at a lowered pressure.