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Wendell, Prosecutors, like all trial lawyers, are generally a prickly lot, and have their own ways of doing things in court. Any experienced prosecutor has qualified many witnesses as experts, using her own pet questions, and she may not welcome advice from you on how to do that. However, most...

This is from my perspective as a trial lawyer for the last 30 years. A witness in court should never hesitate to admit that she does not know something if that is what the truth is. There is always SOMETHING that the cross examining lawyer can bring up that a witness doesn't know the answer to...

Greg, I don't know if you have the information you're looking for yet. From my perspective of being a trial lawyer in Michigan for 28 years, here are some things to be aware of: As I understand it, you are looking for actual statistics on numbers of deaths and injuries associated with diving...

I've had a few embarrassing moments, but I guess no down and out Walter-esque humiliations. I've showed up at dive sites without equipment a few times - fins, batteries, and the like. The highlight was meeting a bunch of buddies for a March dive in Michigan. We're standing around with suitable...

Here's hoping that there's a Dulcinea to reward your bravery.

I agree with your point personally. And you're right in your suspicions. I personally find studies and statistics and controlled experiments much more persuasive than the story of what happened to Aunt May that time she ate a banana right after drinking a Coke. But I have had to learn the hard...

You are bumping into the paradox of how people assess "evidence." I have to deal with this, and think hard about this, pretty regularly in my real job as a trial attorney. My experience is that most people are more persuaded by stories with human interest than by surveys or statistics. Their...

Am I the only one who finds these things hard to read? Yes, I have old, tired-out eyes, but still, it's pretty small.

This is getting very eggistential.

Thanks for the link Steve. That looks like a project I could handle. How is the vest working out for you? Has it been soaked yet? Not that my drysuit ever gets wet inside or anything. On a related note, has anyone come up with workable electric hand warmers? Those little dry chemical packs...

We went with arrows because people sometimes are just wandering around in the lake, and we wanted to point them "home" if they were lost. Why cookies instead?

Hey f, I already know that the method I was using is not very good and that I'm too dumb to figure out a good answer on my own. I posted the question so smart guys like you could give me some help. Got any suggestions?

Ben, I don't think that clipping to the line would work, but you've given me an idea. We push lengths of pvc conduit into the bottom to hold up the line at the 100 foot markers. I'm going to try attaching a clothes-pin type clamp to the end of the tape and clip that to the pvc pipe. The team...

We did that for for the initial line from the object we designated as the point of origin. Later lines ran from different objects in different directions. For example, there is a sunken speed boat 175 feet from the origin. So when we ran a line from this speedboat to some other place, there are...

That sort of works, but we found it compounds errors over long distance. For example, before we measured it out, we thought one section of line was about 1500 feet. It turned out to be closer to 1200. We ended up concluding we needed some sort of actual distance measuring device.

I have a question about a good protocol for installing distance markers on a line. Here's the background: We sometimes dive in a local lake for fun and to practice. The bottom is generally flat, weedless deeper than 25 feet, silty and for most of the year the visibility is in the 10 to 20 foot...

Gee Don, you're an easy guy to please when the bad stuff happens to somebody else. The Scene: A hospital room. Dandy Don is lying in bed with bandages on his left arm. Dandy Don is groggy from surgery. Dandy Don: Ohhh, my head! Where am I? What happened? Doc: Easy there, Mr. Don...

Where do you keep the sleeve?

I'm not writing any standards. I'm just talking about diving. I think the things you're complaining about are good things to learn. If I ever perfected those skills, I would be a better diver for it. If an instructor teaches those skills, it's something to be pleased about, not get upset over.

I found it was helpful to have some experience running a reel before taking Cave I. I think practicing no mask ascents is a good thing to do rather than wait and see how it turns out when it happens the first time by accident. Trying to hold bouyancy carefully while doing this or that is a...