SCUBA attacks

[Burke]

is a scuba patrol, the goverment could pay any certified diver $10 an hour do go diving as much as possible and keep a lookout for any suspicious looking divers
Ok maybe they could just pay for our air, that would work for me.

 

[danceswithoctopus]

I want a black armband!

Ooh! Ooh! I just thought of a great name for the organization:

Nitrox Against Zealot Infiltration!

Cool, huh?

 

[wannabe]

You must be one of those radicals from out on the left coast spreading all that anti-government propaganda. Why don't you drink the purple kool-aid and get in line with what our executive branch of government wants.


(see my post on the other active thread on this topic)

Everyone thinks our government has 3 branches of government with checks and balances and they are sadly mistaken-- there is a fourth that is far more powerful and that is the voters/constituants.

 

[Burke]

I am starting to get pissed, I don't see how a bunch of CIVILLIAN scuba divers keeping an eye out for anything suspicious would make them nazis.( The scuba patrol thing was a joke any way, that should have been obvious.)
Ok, I am going to cool down and not get into a political/moral debate here, I am here to talk about scuba stuff.

 

[danceswithoctopus]

The scuba patrol thing was a joke any way, that should have been obvious

Um, let' s see, how about: Duh!
Don't mess your diapers, Burke. A joke is a joke, right? So why's it okay for you to make a joke, but not for me to do so? Look up the word 'satire' in the dictionary.

Wannabe: Your post is unclear. Am I supposed to think on my own, feel free to speak my mind, and to vote my concience? Or am I supposed to fall in line with whatever the current propaganda machine spits out?

I'm sooo confused. I'm gonna go have my cool aid now.

 

[Burke]

I got pissed of by some stuff on the other post about PADI giving info to the FBI and then kinda jumped on you for the nazi joke, I'm sorry. Hey maybe you could have your own special bracnh of the Nitrox Against Zealot Infiltration, maybe Secret Scuba.

 

[danceswithoctopus]

Hmmmmmmm. Secret Scuba, eh? I like it!

 

[JimC]

Keep in mind a terrorist is not going to be worried about deco obligations or gas management, since they arn't comming back.

Load down a scooter with exlosives, strap on some tanks with the right gas and a trained monkey could get the packedge into place on a dam. Knocking out something like the hover dam would cripple the economy and force a few states to find alternative power and water resources.

 

[Liquid]

keep in mind that the target shouyldn';t be a military vessel. Better yet, a passenger ship. A little dive, puting a lich bomb, and down goes the ship, without too much fuss. Or do it to a tanker-best be a gas tanker. It was done over fifty years ago by soldiers that were hardly trained but very enthusiastic for their couse (Indepenadance). It can be done again for lesser couses.

 

[Crrink]

You know, I gotta agree with erring on the side of safety.
As others have pointed out, some very advanced scuba gear is easily available to anyone in the US who has a credit card.
About a month before I took my OW classes I saw a small scooter being sold at Costco of all places (thought about getting it just to drive around the bath tub )
If these maniacs were willing to go through the expense and time to learn how to fly a jumbo jet, learning how to use a rebreather would be a piece of cake.

I do like the idea of a civilian scuba lookout crew, though