Milbrook - Lines

[washow88]

I second your vote for the Chief Line Remover.
I agree with MikeS the line from the platform to the airplane is nice. Last time I went there, my buddy and I found a thin orange line and I thought that the line should be removed.

 

[rogerhelmich]

you cut that line without asking the Dive Shop for premission, you are asking to get banned. What if it was John Wall that had those lines laid? This is not a joke. People do get banned from there for getting out of Line and doing things without premission

 

[O-ring]

rogerhelmich once bubbled...
you cut that line without asking the Dive Shop for premission, you are asking to get banned. What if it was John Wall that had those lines laid? This is not a joke. People do get banned from there for getting out of Line and doing things without premission

Let's hope you are kidding...but I don't think you are. Anyway, I would never touch the Dive Shop lines...they aren't bothering me.

 

[chrpai]

There is no way these "lines" are official. Its not like the platforms or the line down to the airplane.

For example someone put a float on the cabin cruiser. The float is a 2 liter soda bottle tied to some really thin rope. The water is up a few feet this year and you can no longer see the bottle except from under water.

 

[O-ring]

I wanna hear these banning stories...who got banned and what were they doing?

 

[rogerhelmich]

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I wanna hear these banning stories...who got banned and what were they doing?

Eric,
I will give you one of the more famous ones. Dave Sommers (Fairfax County Police Captian and Runs the Akayla in Hatterias) wore a dry suit with out a BC and got banned. you must remeber when these guys started diving you only saw horse collars occasionally and drysuits were considered a primary inflation item.
And, Sommers is on the rescue dive team. So the only time he can dive there is on a rescue( and that has happened)
NExt time you stop by SV ask Ron he knows all the stories

 

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rogerhelmich once bubbled...


Eric,
I will give you one of the more famous ones. Dave Sommers (Fairfax County Police Captian and Runs the Akayla in Hatterias) wore a dry suit with out a BC and got banned. you must remeber when these guys started diving you only saw horse collars occasionally and drysuits were considered a primary inflation item.
And, Sommers is on the rescue dive team. So the only time he can dive there is on a rescue( and that has happened)
NExt time you stop by SV ask Ron he knows all the stories

Thanks, Roger. It just seems so unsupervised that I couldn't imagine anyone actually seeing what anyone else is doing.

 

[rogerhelmich]

chrpai once bubbled...
There is no way these "lines" are official. Its not like the platforms or the line down to the airplane.

For example someone put a float on the cabin cruiser. The float is a 2 liter soda bottle tied to some really thin rope. The water is up a few feet this year and you can no longer see the bottle except from under water.

That two liter soda bottle has been replaced several times in the four years that I have been diving there. It used to be a bleach bottle.
If you are wanting to cut lines be responsible and ask premission
The Dive Shop, Fairfax
703.698.7220

I do not know who is laying the lines. I do not know who is putting all the pvc in there either
The dive shop employees are in there all the time so they would of course be aware of the lines. Dont you think then if there was a problem with the lines you would see them disappear and a memo would come out...They do send out letters you know
R

 

[chrpai]

O-ring once bubbled...

Thanks, Roger. It just seems so unsupervised that I couldn't imagine anyone actually seeing what anyone else is doing.

Other then you can't sue us, I've never seen a list of rules. There is a board over at beach one but its so decayed you can barely read it (assuming you even go over to beach 1)... and it says no solo diving when I know for a fact there are regulars from TDS at beach 2 who solo dive every weekend.

 

[rogerhelmich]

Solo diving is allowed. If you have the Card ask for the wavier at the gate.