How many technical divers lose masks?

[Uncle Pug]

Originally posted by Lost Yooper
You can't scare me UP!!

Bring it on, baby!! HHOOYYAA!!

You are going to love it!

 

[detroit diver]

UP-

This is a DIRF class, not Tech 1 !!! I don't think they'll beat Mike up TOO bad.....

Jack

 

[Rick Murchison]

This DIRF business sounds suspiciously like my original YMCA course over 30 years ago. Ripping off masks, turning off valves, ripping regs out of your mouth... bet you have to swim underwater for 75' on one breath and put your gear on with no mask, too...
Deja Vu!
Rick

 

[The Chairman]

to collect masks, like my friends dive the water hazards on golf courses to collect golf balls???

 

[Uncle Pug]

Originally posted by Rick Murchison
This DIRF business sounds suspiciously like my original YMCA course over 30 years ago. Ripping off masks, turning off valves, ripping regs out of your mouth... bet you have to swim underwater for 75' on one breath and put your gear on with no mask, too...
Deja Vu!
Rick

Yes Rick... Deja Vu... except for the addition of maintaining perfect buoyancy & trim while ascending sharing air and making the safety stop stick.

But don't tell Yooper.

 

[Uncle Pug]

Originally posted by detroit diver
UP-

This is a DIRF class, not Tech 1 !!! I don't think they'll beat Mike up TOO bad.....

Jack

Jack... didn't you already do the DIRF? And you didn't lose any masks? Didn't Andrew tell you he calls these "Beat 'em up dives"?

 

[Rick Murchison]

Originally posted by Uncle Pug

Yes Rick... Deja Vu... except for the addition of maintaining perfect buoyancy & trim while ascending sharing air and making the safety stop stick.

But don't tell Yooper.

Well, yes... since we didn't use wetsuits or BC's or safe seconds or safety stops or SPGs, (depth and time and a "feel" for your personal air consumption were "it") buoyancy was a one shot deal - you were either properly weighted or not. The ascent was at sixty feet per minute buddy breathing. If there was deco involved the ascent was to the hang tank... out of air and can't find the hang tank? Can you spell "s c r e w e d ?" Trim? Excuse me?
But we were young and immortal then.
Rick

 

[Uncle Pug]

Originally posted by Rick Murchison
But we were young and immortal then.
Rick

Ahhh... the perceived immortality of youth...

 

[The Chairman]

I thought that was "We were young and immoral then!". I keep screwing these things up!!! :tease:

 

[ninja]

I must have been lucky I went through all that hell when I did a TDI advanced nitrox/decompression course!!! Funny thing is My instructor was taught by Steve lewis who was taught by Jarrod Jablonski!!! So just goes to show you guys not all instructors are dumbassess!!!

Just thought that was kind of interesting Mind you my instructors training is somewhat pre GUE

len