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    First Time to Punta Cana

    I went there in '92. You definitely picked the correct side of the island to visit.
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    Deep Diver certification in NJ

    No diving with a HP 120 and slung 40 as bailout. Be your own nanny, I don't need one. Air at 1.6 is good to 186ft.
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    Deep Diver certification in NJ

    Pretty sure AOW gets you to 130-150' I'm rescue and have been to 164 on air but zero training. Bounce dive of course
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    Diver missing - Pelham, Alabama

    Practice is for chumps. I prefer to spend tens of thousands on equipment I don't understand and walk in with no training and an open mind.
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    What are your thoughts on that "New material (that) steals oxygen from air"

    From what I can understand of the chemistry, which isn't all that impressive because It's been 10 years since I was in college for this and I only got a B.S., this isn't going to be useful for scuba. It's interesting that they were able to do this, and it may prove useful for military...
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    Adelaide fatality - Australia

    Pretty obvious you have zero experience doing this :rolleyes: EDIT: to be clear, now that I'm off mobile I will elaborate. Had you ever actually rescued somebody you'd realize that these situations don't unfold exactly how PADI or SSI or whatever agency told you. Things move quickly and I can...
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    Adelaide fatality - Australia

    There are Good Samaritan laws in the US too, but they are different for each state. CA is protected but some states aren't. You have to also consider that it's actually very dangerous to physically assist a diver who is combative. They will pull your reg out, mask off, kick and hit. It's not...
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    Adelaide fatality - Australia

    Perhaps in Australia people can't sue you for anything, but in the US a good portion of the rescue course is understanding your legal liability and *that* is the number one concern when you approach a person who you intend to help. CYA and all that. As far as "armchair quarterbacking", this is...
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    Adelaide fatality - Australia

    It really does make it sound like she was forced to the surface while still conscious, that is terrifying. The first thing you are supposed to do in a rescue is ask if the person WANTS your help, and if they don't you leave them alone. Unless she was unconscious they had no business dragging her...
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    Lost and Found for SoCal

    Lost one slate Pen Shaws cove
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    What are your thoughts on that "New material (that) steals oxygen from air"

    "Crystalline salts of a series of cationic multimetallic cobalt complexes reversibly, selectively and stoichiometrically chemisorb dioxygen in a process involving the two electron oxidation of dimetallic sites with concurrent reduction of two equivalents of sorbed O2 to form...
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    How to store a pony....stable

    I'm curious how often you guys who carry pony bottles use them, if ever. I don't carry any pony bottle, I also don't really worry about OOA situations mainly because I'm 100% confident in my ability to do a CESA from any recreational depth at <60ft/min, but I'm 28 and swim daily. Have you ever...
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    Adelaide fatality - Australia

    I in fact did think you were implying that, my mistake. From the duration of her survival it looks like it was DCS of some sort. Unfortunate if somebody inexperienced forced her to ascend, but I don't know another diver that would drag a conscious person to the surface. I assume these other...
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    Adelaide fatality - Australia

    Whatever issues beyond AGE that may occur as a result of a forced ascent of an unconscious diver are irrelevant; had they left her under (to deco? Unconscious?) she'd be dead anyway. Barotrauma can occur if the lungs are obstructed, which is why they tell you to point a diver with mask facing...
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    Diver missing - Emerald Bay - Catalina Island

    Jesus Christ people they are lobsters. Why anybody would need to go to Catalina to bug hunt is beyond me. I do it in Laguna all day, **** the police.
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    Diver Dead - Anacapa Island

    Hmm I haven't heard about this, unfortunate.
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    Three dead and one in recompression chamber in Italy, Tuscany

    Well, to be fair, in my first post I hadn't read the article at all and in my second, I was just musing that levels of CO that high should kill almost instantly at depth (40m was stated). Sometimes I'm right, and sometimes I'm not wrong. This is the latter.
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    Three dead and one in recompression chamber in Italy, Tuscany

    Are you daft? I recognize it was CO I'm amazed anyone could survive breathing CO at 1600 @20M/3ATA for more than 5 min.
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    Three dead and one in recompression chamber in Italy, Tuscany

    Boo I want AGE reroll. Where is the coroners report on PDF this is 2014 and we still can't figure out how to run a compressor safely?? At least if it was fast ascent/stupidity we could just blame the Italians who are notorious for such snafus. Edit: Italians are at fault somehow I promise
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    Three dead and one in recompression chamber in Italy, Tuscany

    At those cited concentrations at depth they all should be dead
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