Ok fair enough,
NWGratefulDiver, I read more into your post than was actually there. However, by way of stating opinion I'll offer the following full current summary of "
lessons learned" in this thread.
(1) Regarding Pakistan we learned some opinions and experiences regarding naval/military submarine practices (and a book called "Sea Pheonix" by Admiral Zaheer Shah), the types of jobs, food, water military will tolerate vs some other countries, piloting practices, driving practices, diving practices, traffic laws, SSGN, possession vs building nuclear weapons, religion, cricket, as well as regional wages and the perceived value of $30.00 US currency, and about diving conditions and aquatic life just outside the harbor where
SeaHound dove.
(2) We learned about j-valve and legacy equipment and diving practices. That many SPGs are currently available on E-bay for under 30 bucks. That 30 bucks is more than a months wage for many persons living in the Pakistanian part of the world.
(3) We learned about OOA training, air sharing, limits, and practices of several scuba training agencies.
(4) We learned what diving equipment
SeaHound owns and doesn't own. That he has a "friend" who is an electrical engineer and disregarded his safety. And that he learned not to leave "situational awareness" in the hands of someone else. That he shouldn't blame a DM (or anyone else on the boat) for his misjudgment. That he can swim on a single breath of air from 40 feet.
(5) That diving without an SPG or specific knowledge of the contents of the pre-dive scuba cylinder is a bad practice.
(6) That the perception of the value or need for a compensation bladder is based on
when in diving's history you happen to be forming your opinion, or if you happen to be diving with doubles and a couple of full decompression bottles.
(7) About the amount of water weight and pressure exerted against a submarine hatch at various depths.
(8) A reverse squeeze is a serious concern for a rapid ascent, and examples showing you may likely be hospitalized.
(9) Early cave divers used plastic jugs for buoyancy.
(10) That
dpbishop avatar is an American Pit Bull Terrier.
(11) That this thread was once part of a series :05: of which it is now the only remaining episode.
(12) That there is a picture out there somewhere with the expression on
SeaHounds face immediately after he got back on the boat, and he owes us this picture.
(13) The importance of keeping your regulator in your mouth during an emergency swimming ascent. That due to ambient pressure change the 1st stage may even deliver another breath from the "empty" cylinder.
(14) That
Diver0001 has actually run tests in his living room comparing a 1972 Aqualung Aquarius unbalanced 1st stage regulator vs. a modern high-performance balanced regulator with some astounding results.
(15) That the scubaboard staff doesn't sit around all day selectively editing posts of people who know they are exceeding the TOS when they post. That most of the mods have full time jobs outside of scubaboard. Were all adults ... selective edits and babysitting are time-consuming, and shouldn't be necessary.
(16) That the deleted thread involved
SeaHound flaunting a mocho stunt and that he was bragging about it.
(17) That
NWGratefulDiver was the one that pulled the thread for "basting" responses, and bragging about dangerous practices.
I don't know about you but I learned a lot on this thread. Of course we could have learned many of these things on other threads. And we know we can't believe everything we read either. Were many of the things we learned on-topic, also no.
Was this thread useless - HARDLY.
