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Howdy all. I've done some diving to around 40 ft in marinas on Lanier and saw very little in the way of trees, monofilement, etc. That might be because they were cleared. I'm considering diving off Old Federal Park Day Use ramp where my charts indicate depths of 70+ feet. Just how bad do...

Inside the Miss Opportunity at 95 ft

If you truly aren't in the computer, you'll have to call PADI directly. If you still have your temp card. you may want to check it out for yourself, take the instructor number and go here http://www.padi.com/padi/en/kd/c-card/default.aspx if you're in the system, you'll show up there (i did...

Thats emphatically NOT what they were asking. They were asking if they should. If i remember correctly the question was "Hey guys should i do this?" The diver in question then went on to believe they were safe because 1>they had a decent line 2>they had 2 non divers for "surface support"...

Last saturday was not much better. 3-5 if that at stage fort park. This weekend is supposed to be a bit better. Guy at the dive shop told me they were calling 15-20 ft out of cape ann

At pebble beach, they were around 3 and 1/2 no divers there, I didn't even get out of the car. I'm not sure about cathedral rock, it was worse i didn't get in the water but tasted it from the road ;) Stage fort was much better 2 feet maybe and only breaking in really close. The current was...

Went out to Cape Ann today. The weather was horrible. All of rockport was blown out. So i dove ft stage. Viz was MAYBE 5 ft. Max depth 20 ft. Temp approx 46 degrees. There was significant surge and undertow in close Aside from my neckseal allowing sea into my drysuit, my bc inflator...

Can't speak for the lots deeper part, but if the dive you're talking about is the one i think it is, he went to 425 on air chasing two other deep air divers who were in trouble and almost bought the farm. The bodies of the two he was chasing were never recovered. If i remember correctly :)

I'll admit, i'm no deep or deco diver (yet). I've been in places i shouldn't have. But this fellow's post appears to make it abundantly clear he is not deco trained, nor deep air trained, nor ready for this type of thing. He reasoning for wanting to do this type of dive calls his judgement...

Did any of you read his reasons for wanting to do this? "I want to see what happens". Why would anyone advocating this type of dive given this reasoning? I may be off base here, but "I want to see what happens" sounds like a good way to get himself in trouble.

I did 4 relatively deep dives (70-90 ft) in a day the rest of the divers had done 3 (I switched off partners due to an injury). On the ride home, my elbow was itching like crazy, no amount of scratching did anything. It felt like the itching was UNDER the skin, if that makes any sense. Was it...

Look close. See the twin tank bands on the set of doubles closest to him? They've got bolts running to nothing. What's holding the tanks to the fella? If you look even closer, you'll notice a notable lack of hoses running from the extra tanks. How's he gonna breathe off them with no...

Again, that depends on what you're doing. But there should be no long term effects over THAT long a term. Divers (within recreational limits) on mixes richer than air (more o2 than air) tend to worry about CNS toxicity. Pulmonary is so little a risk as to be non-existant. Oxygen exposure...

Long term? That depends on what you mean. It is supposedly, theorectically possible to suffer pulmonary O2 toxicity (as opposed to CNS) from long term high oxygen percentage breathing. I don't know that it ever happens to anyone who isn't in a hospital on pure o2 for days. And from...

When you use nitrox and don't max out your bottom time, it reduces the time you have to spend on the surface between dives. It also provides a bit of a safety factor against DCS (although there is an O2 tox risk)