Diver Wanted in CT

[dberry]

Looking at pics of Van Dorn Bottles (thank you google), I wonder if there's enough metal on them to make a metal detector useful. OTOH, a VD bottle is basically a tube with two spring-loaded rubber caps. I'm surprised the researchers find it expeditious to hunt for the lost one. If the lab supply company charges too much for a new one, just make the luckless grad student fashion his/her own from scratch - just like Prof. Van Dorn did.

(1) the student will learn a few things about equipment and (2) they'll definitely learn how to tie a decent knot!

-Don ( a grumpy old scientist who laments that too many grad students these days don't know to use a screw driver. Bah, humbug.)

 

[divin'dog]

...I find it pretty funny on police shows when they send divers into water like that and after 5 minutes they come up with the handgun someone threw into that muck.

LOL... More like "Let's bring a gun down with us so we can bring one up and look good for the cameras. Just don't drop it!". Can you imagine if it WAS that easy? Ha!

I dove in a local lake to test and set some new dive equipment a while back. Found out the lake was only about 12' deep but the bottom was about 5' of black, dense, muck. Once I was in it, 0 vis. Felt totally uncomfortable in it. Hate the bottoms that slowly gets thicker and thicker, with no real hard bottom in "sight", which gives me that "eeewwww" factor. That was one of the shortest dives I've ever had.

As for the Witch's Tit in a Brass Bra, the only thing that is as cold, according to my friend, is a Well Digger's Ass...

 

[CT-Rich]

There is a huge difference between 1-2 ft visibility and true zero. I really had to slow down my thinking when it went completely black and I am used to low visibility situations. The difference for a researcher versus a HS science teacher, is you have to collect reliable data. A piece of PVC, some tennis balls might be fine for some applications, but not for others. $500 for a new piece of equipment seems like a lot, but having some one make it instead of doing something else useful costs money also. The average small lab costs around a one half to one million dollars a year. $500 is not enough to worry about, but not something you would want to have people make a habit of losing.

I think I will keep with the brass bra... not that there is any thing wrong with well digging...... just not my cup of tea....