Provocative talk yesterday at NSS-CDS: Toss out the rule of thirds?

[Mobulai]

Just always carry a knife so you can stab your buddy if he looses all his gas at max penetration and goes for yours. Or dive sidemount and don't think about silly edge cases like this. Or go CCR + sidemount and eliminate all those scifi scenarios. But I'd keep the knife even then just in case.

I’m physically (not just an expression at u point) on the floor and tearing up — why don’t you come stab me with that knife instead of suffocating me with laughter

 

[foxdude]

I’m physically (not just an expression at u point) on the floor and tearing up — why don’t you come stab me with that knife instead of suffocating me with laughter

Bwahah I am proud that my gentle trolling brought you to joyful tears my good sir. Id stab you any day if you go for my gas at max penetration.

 

[Mobulai]

Bwahah I am proud that my gentle trolling brought you to joyful tears my good sir. Id stab you any day if you go for my gas at max penetration.

I’ll stay clear — but scavenging whatever an omniswivel leaks is fair game right

THANK YOU. I totally forgot about the big Poseidon purge. I wouldn't want to kill someone from the shock LOL.

Homicidal gas tendencies you two

 

[tmassey]

Find out that it really isn't exciting quit and move on to their next hobby.

I have bought a fair ton of scuba diving gear from just these kind of people.

One guy in particular went from open water diver to beginning technical diver in about three years. Realized that the next step to becoming a competent technical diver was going to take him a couple of years of hard and boring work. Decided to sell all of his extensive technical gear (that he wasn’t ready for, but thought he needed) and go race motorcycles instead.

Hey, at least he realized his weaknesses and what it was going to take to correct them, realized he wasn’t going to put in the effort and go in a different direction… Plus, I got a great deal on a pile of lightly used technical gear.

 

[tmassey]

Just always carry a knife so you can stab your buddy if he looses all his gas at max penetration and goes for yours. …. But I'd keep the knife even then just in case.

It’s basically how my original open water instructor described the purpose of a knife while scuba diving. He said the purpose of it was not to fend off sharks or other such things, but instead to stab your buddy so you could get away.

This was in the early 1990s, so the general idea of a scuba knife was roughly similar to a Roman short sword. With such a knife, there isn’t much else you’re going to productively do, anyway…

(Of course, today, I carry with me a Z knife on my belt next to my buckle and a pair of trauma shears next to my plate. Neither of those are great for stabbing anybody, but have been very useful in at least half a dozen different actual scenarios…)

 

[NothingClever]

Decided to sell all of his extensive technical gear…and go race motorcycles instead.

Sigh…I humbly acknowledge your acquaintance is far smarter than me.

I’m already a Trimix diver but starting over so to speak with GUE AND participating in MotoAmerica.

I could probably hit myself in the nuts with a kettlebell and experience greater serenity in my life.

 

[J-Vo]

Sigh…I humbly acknowledge your acquaintance is far smarter than me.

I’m already a Trimix diver but starting over so to speak with GUE AND participating in MotoAmerica.

I could probably hit myself in the nuts with a kettlebell and experience greater serenity in my life.

Floating through the cave motionless on a CCR, just the gentle nudge of the flow and the sound of your own breathing. Doesn't get much more serene than that.

 

[foxdude]

Floating through the cave motionless on a CCR, just the gentle nudge of the flow and the sound of your own breathing. Doesn't get much more serene than that.

True that. And the fact that you can wander around your bailout range for hours not counting the minutes and checking pressure gauges as in OC.