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  1. Sky Shark

    OK, 'fess up.... the Dark Side of Solo...

    As I try to take my recent retirement seriously...I solo during the week and dive with friends on weekends...
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    Store your equipment in your vehicle

    Here the FD guys are very close and maintain a boat on the water , I have 180 square miles of patrol area in my part of the county, the closest I ever get to the water is about 14 miles...have done three rescues in 7 years but was in a boat at the time...like I said, my job is law enforcement...
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    Store your equipment in your vehicle

    I do not store my gear in my patrol vehicle ('08 Crown Vic), being Sheriff's Office Dive Team we are not 'rescue'...our primary responsibility is recovery...our local FD has the rescue tasking...we assist when we can...although I do transport my dive gear in my patrol car, I do not store it...
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    How long did it take to get used to limited vis?

    +1 for closing the eyes, I've been a PSD diver for 7 years and I find closed eyes more soothing and I can concentrate better on my 'feel'...
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    Should I be upset wtih my LDS?

    Same here, plus when I've bought a major item in the past, I've received the , "but for you, it'll be ......." my LDS is always appreciative when I bring someone in for a class or to have some servicing done...I don't know what its like to pay for air/ nitrox...then again over the past year I've...
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    Dive Team SOP's

    Hello All...and especially Gary D., I'm on my county's Water Patrol and Dive Team, we're full time deputies and the Water Patrol is currently as needed...due to a new administration this year and the Old Guard is changing I want to present them with SOP's...Rumor Control has it the heir apparent...
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    DUI Demo Days at Beaver Lake

    I plan to be there the entire weekend...
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    Training notice

    Dive Pay????
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    Someone who doesn't quite grasp the DIR concept

    Pennypue...my wife was just reading over my shoulder and saw your signature...I think she just adopted it...
  10. Sky Shark

    I just got a job offer

    Go For It!!!!
  11. Sky Shark

    My daughter gave me a quick message last night, "Quit Dad".

    I've been on the Sheriff's Office Dive Team for five years, and been a detective for three and on the traffic crash reconstruction team for two years...all too often, when I get called out, its bad. my wife freaks a bit when I get called out to recover someone, but I remind her that I have to...
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    Starting a Police Dive Team

    ...also, here we have an excellent Search/ Rescue team from the FD, the surounding areas are mostly VFD guys, and most are very good because they train, again I'm with the SO and we do the recovery if its accident, criminal or 'unattended death'...again law enforcement related...and times like...
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    Starting a Police Dive Team

    Touche!, James Croft...I've been on my S.O.'s "dive team" (10 members) for 5 years...when I first came on board I was happy as a clam...it didn't take long to see some major issues...primarily, leadership, i.e. a commander who knows more about a bass tournament than search line, next, two...
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    Diving-after-Dining...

    my two cents...it was day nine of a 20 day course...didn't the victim "know" he'd be diving/ swimming?...if it was a course, I believe there'd have been a training schedule...if it were some kind of retest, then the swimmer should have known...not enough information...no one can save you like...
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    Howdy from Sweden

    Where in Sweden do you live? My Grandfather was from Odeshog...a life long dream has been to travel there someday!!!
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    Howdy

    I haven't dove the ocean in years...and since I'm in Arkansas and back into it again I wanted to take up where I left off...I was ready to dive the U-85 when I got transferred and never got to go...and for the moment we're looking at 85, 352 and 701...as we get closer we'll figure out...
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    True meaning of PSD

    ...I know that's right...thank God for car washes....
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    Re-doing a Dive Team

    Hey all, I'm on a 10 "man" Water Patrol/ Dive Team...we are part time, we're all full time patrol or detectives...we get two days a year for traing and a core of us (4) are frequent divers and pursue our diving education on our own...I understand the dinosauer thing...we have "divers" who don't...
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    Howdy

    I'd been a paratrooper since I was 18 (Oh so many years ago) and when I was stationed in Bad Tolz, Germany, 10th SFG and a newbie freefaller I "nuked" a formation in freefall...my "end of tour" plaque said Sky Shark...just when you thougjt the skies were safe...it sorta stuck, among certain...
  20. Sky Shark

    Anyone have any pics of the Speigel Grove they would like to share?

    ...Retired Army here, I believe it was back in '85 sometime, my company came up from Ft. Bragg to Little Creek Amphib Base for amphib training and we were aboard the Spiegel Grove for training...
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