Al-Qaida Scuba Attack Force?

[H2Andy]

top ten ways to spot a terrorist undergoing dive training:


10. they keep saying: so when i rig the the target with explosives... er... reach 500
psi... what fin stroke do you reccomend i use to get back to the boat in a hurry?

9. they keep asking you when your LDS is going to offer a class on rebreathers,
cause they "don't make any bubbles, right?"

8. keep asking about under-water fighting techniques they saw on a James Bond
movie, and want to know "the most efficient way to cut another diver's hose"

7. they ask you, "can you scuba dive without learning how to swim? cause
i've lived in a desert all my life."

6. they have a camouflage wet suit

5. they drop out when the instructor reveals that he or she is a deputy with the
local Sheriff's Department

4. they hit the floor and scream "air strike!" anytime someone drops a tank in
the back.

3. first question they ask is, "so when do we learn about explosives?"

2. the credit card used to pay for the courses is registered to
the United Front for the Decapitation of the Evil Satan America

1. they get really nervous when the tactless guy in the class says "Boy, you
sure look like a terrorist" and laughs

 

[Firebrand]

Wouldn't you think that terrorists would go after a target which would inflict a large amount of victims? Someone please tell me where a scuba diver can place explosives that even has the potential to cause mass casualties? What, are they going to swim up the NY sewer system and blow it up? Or are they going to bomb a Mississippi river boat? OOOOOh, I know, they must be after all those kayakers on the Western North Carolina white water rivers!!!

 

[ShakaZulu]

awww man...

I had a couple of suspicious looking characters this morning for a course.. One had a mustache, and the other blinked a lot....

maybe I should be more careful who I let into my PADI underwater explosives and demolition course in future..

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So, let me guess, this special scuba attack divers all uses a BP/W with the long hose???

 

[mania]

So, let me guess, this special scuba attack diver uses a BP/W with the long hose???

This is exactly what i was going to say - you know those guys....the same gear set up...all dressed in black, strange long hose...
don't they look suspicious?

Mania

 

[molksmith]

Do you think they're Padi, Naui,or SSI?

Sort of gives Mixed Gases a whole new meaning.

I guess they are the ones who always want to night dive.



Seriously If you look what happened to the USS COLE you see what damage a scuba diver or divers could inflict.

 

[ShakaZulu]

Do you think they're Padi, Naui,or SSI?

I guess they are the ones who always want to night dive.



Seriously If you look what happened to the USS COLE you see what damage a scuba diver or divers could inflict.

I think they go by DIR, I've seen some of them already, real pissy bunch. I'm just not sure what is in that canister, is it a battery or TNT???

Imagine they get close enough to some Cruise Ships.......this world is a terrorists dream, ecpecially the US.

 

[BIGSAGE136]

I would very careful of the obvious newbie, drastically overwieghted in a jacket BC,
that loves to look under railroad tressels.

 

[H2Andy]

Seriously If you look what happened to the USS COLE you see what damage a scuba diver or divers could inflict.

that was a boat full of explosives, though... i doubt a diver could carry that much explosives to the side of a ship

even with a scooter or two, i'm pretty sure it'd be hard to get as
much of a wallop as the amount of explosives you can carry with a boat.

remember, the attack on the USS Sullivans, which was a trial-run for
the Cole, failed when the boat attacking sank because it was so loaded
with explosives...

so you're talking A LOT of explosives to be able to cause that sort of damage.

 

[molksmith]

I wasn't thinking of one diver carrying all of those explosives.
I was thinking of a Pod of Terrorists or is it Pack or maybe flock?

 

[Mako Mark]

I think they go by DIR, I've seen some of them already, real pissy bunch. I'm just not sure what is in that canister, is it a battery or TNT???

Imagine they get close enough to some Cruise Ships.......this world is a terrorists dream, ecpecially the US.

I have swum under the cruise ship dock in Coz from a beach dive and used less than 1000 psi of a single doing it.

There was also a thread a few months ago where some guy wanted claymore shaped weights for his belt and thought it would be even funnier if he had hand grenade trim weights to clip to chest d-rings.....