Nitrox

[divinman]

OK, I am really dumb when it comes to this...I don't get it!

Ok here ya go.

hit the MAIN reply button, not the one in the post but the one for the entire thread.

Now if you scroll down the page you will see all the posts for the thread. Copy and past the lines you want into your reply screen. Once you have pasted them there, hightlight them and click on the little QUOTE icon at the top. Looks like a talking bubble in comic books.

That will show the text as a quote.

For instance.

I want to respond to questions from several of you. How do I reply to multiple posts with the text from the poster like you did in this post?

hope this helps

 

[ggunn]

OK, I am really dumb when it comes to this...I don't get it!

The problem is that if I type exactly what you need to do, the Scubaboard framework will interpret it for me and make it a quote and hide the tags.

You know how when you hit the reply button inside someone's post, it puts "QUOTE=Username" in square brackets in front of their post and "/QUOTE" after it, also in square brackets, in the window where you type your reply? Those are tags, and you can create them manually.

 

[Scuba_Steve]

I just thougth of something, Christi!!

How 'bout I come down and be part of your crew as the "computer guy" !!!!

I'd really hate to work for dives only, and then doing the Cenote's with Tony on my day off I'm sure would really suck!

hehehehe

I can always dream...........

Steve

 

[Christi]

It has generally been my experience in Cozumel to check the tank at the shop before you leave and label it yourself so you know you're getting the tank you analized. I've never checked directly on the boat. This may be different for someone being picked up at another pier.

This is not practical if you are being picked up at your hotel pier which is not normally the shop location.

Blue Angel let me get 32 for dive one, but we had a bunch of people who got along real well on the boat and we decided the day before where we were going to do dive one. With a MOD of 130' you can do most first dives in Coz on EAN32, even the Throat if you are real carefull to exit at the top. (I certainly wouldn't, but you'd be legal.) As a dive op I wouldn't take that kind of chance either, but I wouldn't prevent people from using EAN for the other reefs. My personal opinion is that if you want to do Maracebo, Punta Sur or Baracuda you should try to arrange that before you get on the boat.

Yes, this was a special situation. If I have a group that is all diving together, this is easy to do. We can plan the sites in advance and work things like this out. However, in my opinion, Punta Sur pushes the limits too close for comfort to allow people to dive nitrox for this dive. Too much can happen even to very good divers. When I do allow nitrox on wall dives we will typically plan to a max of 100, that way there is plenty of contingency room. Again, only for divers I know. Like Scuba Steve said, I would have to live with it forever if someone took an O2 hit, just too dangerous and not worth it. Like I said, and you are aware of this I'm sure, that you can still get plenty of "legal" bottom time with an air cylinder if the dive is profiled accordingly.

You have to tell your Op the dave before to order the tanks (which usually run about $10 per cylinder extra, unless I'm getting ripped off, lol).

You aren't getting rpped off That's the standard price across the board. There is only one fill station on the island that does nitrox fills, so there's not really any room for negotiating price.

an instructor friend of mine says that generally the cheap ones are not reliable enough to bother with. I also haven't found any dive stores (in the Dallas area that is) who will rent one either.

Depends on your idea of "cheap." The one I use is the Handi O2 Analyzer. You can pick them up for around $250ish (which I think is cheap). I have to replace mine about once a year, but I use it almost daily. The sensors go out on all of them eventually, no matter which model you buy.

True diving nitrox may limit you from seeing "everything" but if you're doing a wall dive 1st you definitely don't have to go to 130 to see stuff, often starts getting darker and losing color down there.

Agreed! I try to make people understand this all the time! The best parts of most of our reefs here (with a few exceptions) are well above 100 ft. One correction, at 130, it is not dark here in Coz waters. It doesn't start getting "dark" until about 180ish so I've heard

As to James's statement above, I'll bet this is exactly what Christi is talking about. As Oxtox risk is a serious situation, you'd do well to steer WELL CLEAR of the limits, and there's no way in hell I'd let someone dive EAN32 on the Throat. It only takes one bad day to pooch a diver for good, and then Christi (or any other Op) would have to live with it forever.

As someone who has dove with Christi, (And I will again as soon as possible) I can tell you IMO, she's a cautious and "smart" operator. There's really no-one else I'd rather dive with on the Island than her. (Yes I've tried a few, but certainly not all, but as long as she's there, I'll not be trying any other!)

HI Steve!!!! Great to "see" you! And, you are right. This is exactly what I was talking about!

I'm looking forward to seeing you and L again! Please give her my best!

Those are tags, and you can create them manually.

Thank you Gordon!

 

[Scuba_Steve]

HI Steve!!!! Great to "see" you! And, you are right. This is exactly what I was talking about!

I'm looking forward to seeing you and L again! Please give her my best!

I will, and thank you. Not to side-line the thread, so sorry guys, but just a quick note to Christi....

As you know, I am coming down to do my Cave course this November, as things are right now. I am working to find a way to dive with you for a day. I'll have to get our friends who are coming with us, to take care of our children for the day....

Hope to see you then.

Hugs

Steve

 

[geraldp]

I'm thinking about getting one of my own soon, but an instructor friend of mine says that generally the cheap ones are not reliable enough to bother with.

Cody:
Not to hijack the thread, but what does your instructor friend consider a "cheap" analyzer? I was talked into an OMS OX-ANII analyzer by my LDS ("Here's your analyzer... that'll be $275.00...). Unfortunately I did not do my own research.

Jerry

 

[Christi]

Cody:
Not to hijack the thread, but what does your instructor friend consider a "cheap" analyzer? I was talked into an OMS OX-ANII analyzer by my LDS ("Here's your analyzer... that'll be $275.00...). Unfortunately I did not do my own research.

Jerry

That's actually a good analyzer and a good price!

 

[ggunn]

[snip]

Thank you Gordon!

By George, she's got it! ;^)

Cheers,

 

[Scuba_Steve]

Gotta agree with geraldp....

My 02 analyzer is the El-Cheapo........$211.00 CDN, so that's like, $158.00USD, delivered, to my door. User replaceable sensor and battery. The sensors are half the price of a new complete unit, and are easily obtained.

They really cant be less accurate. That's hog-wash. Either they zero-out or they don't, and sure a lazy sensor will get a little "off" or "funny", that has nothing to do with the unit being "inaccurate", as any unit will work "oddly" with a marginal/going bad, sensor.

Steve

 

[HammerNoMore]

As to James's statement above, I'll bet this is exactly what Christi is talking about.

Which statement would that be? The one you chopped up with no indication? The one where I said it would be within limits, but not advisable to do somthing, but you quoted it chopped out the middle and gave no indication that you did so?

I'd appreciated it if, in the future, you would not edit my quotes in such a matter as to completly change what I said.

James