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Scuba police
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I am not someone who is going to follow every rule in the book, if you want to goof off GO AHEAD!!! SCUBA is a sport, its supposed to be fun and it does run a risk. We all know this and we all signed the papers stating that we understood.
With that being said, this weekend I was on a night dive and two divers decended without lights, onto my head! In the pitchblack waters I didnt see and only figured it out by the time I felt one of the fins brush across my head! Honestly, I should have pulled a SP moment right then and there! This is an instance where the "scuba police" are needed! What if that persons weight belt fell off and hit me in the head. I would have been knocked out easily, and it being a night dive my buddy might not be able to get to me on time. I could have died because these idiots didnt want to use a light durring a decent. These doofuses need to learn thier lesson and not just mess arround.
When you are risking another life, it gets more elaborate.
With that being said, this weekend I was on a night dive and two divers decended without lights, onto my head! In the pitchblack waters I didnt see and only figured it out by the time I felt one of the fins brush across my head! Honestly, I should have pulled a SP moment right then and there! This is an instance where the "scuba police" are needed! What if that persons weight belt fell off and hit me in the head. I would have been knocked out easily, and it being a night dive my buddy might not be able to get to me on time. I could have died because these idiots didnt want to use a light durring a decent. These doofuses need to learn thier lesson and not just mess arround.
When you are risking another life, it gets more elaborate.
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In order to get water in a tank you would have sit on the bottom and hold the purge button open! A tank still has air in it empty! Most first stages will not work well under 150psi and you might think your "Sucking it dry" but there is no way water will get in through the reg! So I call BS on that shop! When I buy air I buy it all! Not the top part only! I will use all my air to be safe as I see fit! If you used the thank below 500psi, just say I must have left the valve open in the car or I blew the water off my dust cap! Or stop at another shop and pay 5 dollars for a fill and the first shop will figure you never went diving! Or invoke your 5th amendment rights and ask for a lawyer! 
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Scuba police? A LOT of this boils down to ignoromics.
Kinda reminds me of my visit to Roatan, where the resort made us wait a full day before we could go diving so they could put us through a 45 minute sales pitch and then spend a few minutes clearing our mask in three feet of water ... which the divemaster INSISTED we do whilst kneeling on the bottom.
They called it a "safety briefing" ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
Kinda reminds me of my visit to Roatan, where the resort made us wait a full day before we could go diving so they could put us through a 45 minute sales pitch and then spend a few minutes clearing our mask in three feet of water ... which the divemaster INSISTED we do whilst kneeling on the bottom.
They called it a "safety briefing" ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
In order to get water in a tank you would have sit on the bottom and hold the purge button open! A tank still has air in it empty! Most first stages will not work well under 150psi and you might think your "Sucking it dry" but there is no way water will get in through the reg! So I call BS on that shop! When I buy air I buy it all! Not the top part only! I will use all my air to be safe as I see fit! If you used the thank below 500psi, just say I must have left the valve open in the car or I blew the water off my dust cap! Or stop at another shop and pay 5 dollars for a fill and the first shop will figure you never went diving! Or invoke your 5th amendment rights and ask for a lawyer!
The University of Rhode Island performs numerous scuba-related studies. One of their studies performed back in the 1970s was done to see if water could enter a scuba cylinder. The took scuba gear down to 10 feet in a swimming pool and breathed the tanks down to zero. Then the depressed the purge button on the 2nd stage regulator 10 times. Later, when they took off the valve, they found cylinder was flooded with pool water.
Cichy, Francis, Hilbert Schenk, and John J. McAniff. Corrosion of Steel and Aluminum Scuba Tanks, University of Rhode Island Technical Report 62, 1978.
Or invoke your 5th amendment rights and ask for a lawyer!
You don't have 5th Amendment rights in Mexico.
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