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How much do you want to pay? I teach OW and AOW as college courses, and build Rescue/First Aid/Emergency Oxygen Provider into a Scientific Diving course. The drag is I teach at a private university and the cost for a couple of credits (for AOW and OW) wouldn't be cheap. Existing students...

Speak for yourself. I am definitely a curmudgeon and no one would mistake me for young. And welcome, Nathan! Even if we are old curmudgeons, we will support you.

Welp, I tried "Draw an octopus and a hardhat diver under water."

Whoever you dive with, you'll need a flag in Hawai'i as I recall. (State law, and I think enforced.) Jack's Manta dive is a blast. Totally touristy, and totally awesome.

About the same temperature where I'm diving. But I have to ask, is it the 11C water that's best described as balmy, or the diver for going in that 11C water.

This is definitely worth considering. There may be more reasons than economic for making the decision. Can you easily rent tanks 7 days a week? What if you get a call from a buddy that wants to dive tomorrow, a Sunday. But the LDS just shut down Saturday night and won't open until Monday...

Cool!

Does anybody know if these certifications were later revoked by PADI? This is just wrong. For folks who don't know: 1. Deep diver certification requires 4 dives over two days. Going deep once doesn't qualify you as a deep diver. Each dive has to exceed 60', as I recall. (Most...

Ah, sorry. I meant to say nobody makes a field-replaceable NEOPRENE neck seal. Sadly, this one is still not neoprene.... (I use Latex seals now that are field-replaceable. )

Subfiend: Thanks for the clarification on "intent." That had me hung up: I can't see how you prove "intent" in this case. Criminal stupidity isn't a thing, for better or worse. Manatee Diver: Regarding texting and driving, per your message below: In Washington State, USA, texting and...

Are private prosecutions a "thing" in US Law? I've heard of these in the UK, but not the US. I think the best a US private party can do is file a civil claim, as was done here. I can't send my neighbor to jail for, say, beating his children. The "state" has to do that. There may be an...

For a novice dry suit diver that's a more-or-less standard build (slim is fine), I like Apollo suits. The ankle and wrist dump valves can help you out if you mess up. It's a neoprene suit, which has disadvantages (more later) but is warmer and has more forgiving seals than tri-lams generally...

Just an FYI, if it really was a DM they'd be in violation of multiple PADI standards for doing that with you. Especially following the Linnea Mills' settlement and changes to PADI policies. I'm not sure if an Instructor could do this within standards, but I wouldn't unless it were very...

Wow. Just wow. I don't like to swear so I'll leave it at that. "I can't give legal advice, but here's some legal advice." I can understand a law enforcement officer advising a victim or witness on something like this under limited circumstances. But with a dive accident, the instructor/DM...

I have had a secondary uncontrollably free flow under water exactly once. The situation was different; filling a lift bag at 85 feet in a lake, I presume because of the cold water at depth. It can happen. (And I'll admit user error here, for safety, I should have had a separate cylinder and...

Thank you again for responding to this conversation. Your responses are "refreshing" (if that's the right word for a tragedy) in that we get a better understanding of what actually happened, and they are great as "teachable moments" for all of us. I initially had a hard time wrapping my head...

Thanks for sharing these videos. And thanks to Mr. Concannon for the explanations and for occasional comments on this thread. It's refreshing in an era of "no comments" for legal reasons to see them. One very minor quibble I hate to raise because there are so many more important and relevant...

I'm confused by this. Was this pool training? Was a wetsuit necessary? It may be, especially for a smaller person or in an unheated pool. But a 7 mm suit? I'd overheat I think. Was this salt water or fresh? (We have both salt water and freshwater pools where I live.) If it's a salt...

Wouldn't surprise me. I've heard of more chambers shutting down than new ones opening up.

The nice part about our local chamber (really chambers, as in plural) is that it's at a regular hospital with an ER of its own. It's really a question of WHICH ER you go to, the closest or the one at the hospital with the chambers? And at what point do you decide the time difference is...