I just wish those damn kids would get off my lawn!!
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I just wish those damn kids would get off my lawn!!
That problem definitely happens. If you own the tank you're diving you can solve it with a vindicator handwheel. They're under $20.B) How confident are you that the DM fiddling with your valve didn't screw up?
In at least one place I've had to lead dives in, not doing that would be grounds for the BM in charge "assisting" (replacing) you and a stern talk at the back of the shop later.* I watch videos of folks doing giant strides off of boats. Almost every single person manning the boat exit grabs the valve to test it.
* I know the captain (on our boat dives they managed the giant strides) checked all the valves for our jumps.
* Numerous people here want to tell the DM not to touch their gas.
Makes me wonder how many DM's smile and say "You're the boss." and then test the valve anyway.
It sure did, but you definitely don't want to know what the maneuver fixes. Seriously, if you want to continue to enjoy diving as much as you do now, you don't.To make this on-topic, did Hitlers 'stache make his mask leak? Or is that what the warhammer maneuver fixes?
In at least one place I've had to lead dives in, not doing that would be grounds for the BM in charge "assisting" (replacing) you and a stern talk at the back of the shop later.
It sure did, but you definitely don't want to know what the maneuver fixes. Seriously, if you want to continue to enjoy diving as much as you do now, you don't.
Oh come on every newbie on this forum should learn what the warhammer manoeuvre fixes- go on, search for it (I double dare you)...In at least one place I've had to lead dives in, not doing that would be grounds for the BM in charge "assisting" (replacing) you and a stern talk at the back of the shop later.
As a dive op, you either trust your client divers or you don't. If you do, you can be subject to some liability if that trust was misplaced. But if you don't, you expose yourself to much greater liability, should you skip that check for that one diver who didn't open their valve.
You will be asked why didn't you check the valve, which you usually did. And whatever you answer, it will look like the accident happened because you were complacent this one time. With tec divers it's different, but with rec divers, if you have a safety-related house rule, you place yourself at much more legal risk by making exceptions than by not having it in the first place.
It sure did, but you definitely don't want to know what the maneuver fixes. Seriously, if you want to continue to enjoy diving as much as you do now, you don't.