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Telephone magnetos, too. Yet oddly, neither was ever standard lifeboat equipment for castaways. Of course, neither has much application for divers. Both are about as hard on the diver as on the fish.

Hey. One of the nice things about diving is that you only have to do the sorts that you enjoy and want to do. That's enjoy AND want. If you don't like it and don't want to be doing it, no obligation to be doing that kind. And you're not obliged to spend every spare moment diving, just because...

You're right. It's not trivial. Vertigo is a wild and scary thing to someone who's never had it. I actually had it for a while many years ago. It took a good while to learn how to ignore it and switch to the other senses and have faith in things like the reality that the Earth isn't flopping...

Dive Planning & Trust Me Dives If I've clearly indicated that I've hit the agreed upon air, I'd let them know I was leaving and leave. Why make a plan, if you weren't going to follow it. It's not war where all plans evaporate as soon as the battle starts. We don't have to do this. I...

Physiological Issues I'd have been on the way up before that. I've been cold enough in my life already, thank you. I'd remember that overbreathing alone might be the problem, but it's all the same problem in the end. I'd do my self body check for physical stress responses and alter them...

Equipment issues Put it back. Keep a little more distance, unless I thought he did it on purpose, in which case I'd keep a LOT more distance. Mask is long gone? And no backup mask? Start slowly up, using quick looks to try to judge speed/see gauge. If it can be done in the dark, it can...

Lost Buddies Revert to training, quick look for them and then up and report. This would, of course, have been agreed upon before diving. If they don't want to do it that way, so be it, and I won't expect anything else from them. Assuming we had agreed to stay together (otherwise, it's...

Rely, "At least I'm not wasting it like you are right now, you ignorant hillbilly." (Apologies to actual hillbillies, none of whole were harmed in the formulation of this rely.) Alternative reply: "At least I will probably improve, while you're likely to stay just as big a jerk as you are...

Exactly. Kind of like people who would see my 1911 Colt being carried with the hammer back and would ask, "Isn't that dangerous." The answer is, "I dang sure hope so." But I don't see that we could consider fishes dumber than birds. (A lot of similarities between the two, if you think about...

This one? "Thin Blue Line." Originally designated law enforcement or LE family. So widely available now that it's probably as commonly displayed by the same doofus types who imagine that the State Troopers Association member sticker will keep them from getting tickets.

In reality, the only evidence that "works" in a speeding case is the speed measuring device, shown to be reliable, and proving up the speed limit.* You could not, for instance, pull up to an officer beside the road and say, "I was speeding back there. Write me up." and expect to be cited. (Okay...

That in reference to: Originally Posted by 2 Big 2 Fail I have had a number of people in my custody in bad sorts of trouble - on account of unfortunate circumstances or being well set up by someone else - who would have been a very long time trying to get free (and in one case almost...

I note that if I look at job descriptions in ads seeking DM's, the word "guide" appears often. Very rarely does any reference to safety appear. I suppose that's really fairly accurate, considering the thrown together nature of a group of customers on a boat and the likelihood that it will be...

How silly. It doesn't make the slightest difference whether or not you say you know you were speeding or not. Proof of your knowledge is not required. (Couldn't be required, really, if you think about it.) It's just as likely that claiming you don't know why you were stopped because you can't...

Well it worked when I passed my urine test.

Rats! I should have studied. (But then, I stayed up all night studying for that blood test, and it didn't help.)

If anyone pretended to really know how many people continued diving and for how long, I've never seen it. If someone wanted to know, it would pretty much have to be the certifying agencies. And I suspect that they get the same impression as most of us, that a great many people don't dive beyond...

I suspect the advice to use dailies was intended to avoid reusing lenses contaminated with water borne organisms, as is sometimes warned against. I don't know how big a deal that really is. As most contact wearers have found, they are warned of some things that don't happen much. Of course...

I figure good wetsuits can be had prices low enough new and last so long that why buy used unless you're truly hard up. (Initially buying a whole scuba setup is sort of a shock, but remember that you're likely, over the life of the gear, to spend more on trips, air, service, etc., and there are...

Apparently, it's been done and commented on by folks in this and other sports that use neoprene. But wouldn't you suspect it might depend on the quality of the neoprene. For instance, common wetsuit material might hold the larger shape. But what of highly elastic (and more expensive) material...