Scuba Snopes

[tridacna]

Split fins don't work when finning into a current. (The laws of physics are temporarily put on hold).

 

[vladimir]

I honestly didn't mean this thread for "opinion" topics.... I meant it to be a cross check for factual assertions that may or may not be urban legends. But I see the community went in a different direction.

Getting back to my original torque wrench legend... It looks like it's mostly a fact. I think they *offered* a wrench to all dealers but how many actually took them up on it is unknown. Either they all said yes to get a free wrench or they said no to make it look like they already had one.

Nice try though.

 

[nimoh]

Here is one I heard in a thread a while back.

When using a backplate with a single tank wing and diving doubles, inflating the wing creates enough force to bend your backplate.

From the thread, I am mostly convinced that this is true, but not willing to prove it with my own backplate

 

[PfcAJ]

Here is one I heard in a thread a while back.

When using a backplate with a single tank wing and diving doubles, inflating the wing creates enough force to bend your backplate.

From the thread, I am mostly convinced that this is true, but not willing to prove it with my own backplate

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/te...lties/427653-wing-question-2.html#post6419125

 

[nimoh]

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/te...lties/427653-wing-question-2.html#post6419125

thanks, I was being a bit lazy not posting that link

 

[Lead_carrier]

Originally Posted by chrpai
Claim: Around the time of the Scuba Pro MK20 recall, ScubaPro bought every dive shop in the U.S. a torque wrench.
Status: ?

My understanding was they made the offer. I vaguely recall taking documentation of that offer to my LDS. He declined - one more reason to DIY.

The only offer we got was to SELL us a torque wrench, which was way overpriced. If your LDS had been rebuilding their regs to spec then they should have already had a torque wrench.

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Everything you read on Scubaboard is fact. No offense meant to anyone but if you get offended, Oh well.

 

[Ste Wart]

PADI: The Way the World learns to Dive

 

[chrpai]

You get what you pay for.

Not technically false but the implication that you'll get something much better for much more money B.S.

 

[JamesK]

I'll tell you one that the cave divers all swear to me is true, but I just have the hardest time believing.

- You can turn off the gas supply on the left post of your twinset by repeatedly bumping the valve against the roof of the cave and/or rubbing it along the descent line/guideline.

Hey, if you say so, but I tried turn off the valve on a tank once using only a length of rope which I held straight and "stroked" against the valve, and I found it extremely hard, and no way I was going to keep going long enough to do three a half revolutions...

I've done it. Its a real thing.

Absolutely. I have done it as well. So have many friends on dives that I have been along with them on.

 

[chrpai]

We don't take our tanks to XYZ. We caught them forging hydro's.

1 month later. We aren't doing our hydro's at ABC anymore because they raised their prices. We are taking them to XYZ instead.