So whats the future???????????????

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After 3 years of escalating scuba deaths due to excessive task loading (clearing mask while descending, etc.), the US Government will form a Safe Scuba Task Force comprised of attorneys and PADI instructors. New regulations will determine that some agencys like GUE and YMCA are teaching unsafe practices, like turning off tank valves underwater, complex propulsion methods (frog kick) etc., and those agencys will be forced to change there ridiculously difficult training practices or go out of business. All recreational diving will be limited to 60 feet and require internet reservations, check-in and check-out, POB (proof of buddy) and a small USFS fee. Dives are subject to cancellation at any time by th USFS due to adverse water/weather conditions. Dive profiles are downloaded directly into the diver's dive computer (required) from the internet before each dive at time of reservation. Divers will be required to stay on the "dive path" at all times by following the rope paths. Spare air will be required for each diver. All divers will be issued a punch card, which when full, will entitle the diver to a free dive. After filling 10 punch cards, you automatically become a PADI instructor.
 
PolsVoice:
The thing they are having a problem with in this field is making a microbe that our rockin' immune systems won't kill quickly. The microbes they have been trying to develop to attack other bad tissues and toxins (i.e. cancer cells) are having the same problem... that and they attack things that we need for the body.

- PV

Actually, that wouldn't be a concern to me. My worries on the current state are two fold. First: Nitrogen is stable, and chemically it requires a fair amount of energy to pull apart. I'm not sure I would want an energetic chemical reaction going on in my bloodstream. Second: Current Nitrogen fixing bacteria tend to convert the Nitrogen into things that wouldn't be healthy to have floating in my bloodstream. But we can dream...
 
You mean "Nitrogen Bug Poop".

The industry would be going after yet another card. "Nitrogen Pooper Scooper". You might have to show skills in using mini plastic pick-up bags and deposit them in the "Mini Nitrogen Poop Depository".

If you fail to dispose of it properly the "Mini Pooper Diving Police" or "Mini Pooper DM" could fine you or put your butt in "Mini Pooper Jail".

hehehe

Gary D.
 
Gary D.:
You mean "Nitrogen Bug Poop".

The industry would be going after yet another card. "Nitrogen Pooper Scooper". You might have to show skills in using mini plastic pick-up bags and deposit them in the "Mini Nitrogen Poop Depository".

If you fail to dispose of it properly the "Mini Pooper Diving Police" or "Mini Pooper DM" could fine you or put your butt in "Mini Pooper Jail".

hehehe

Gary D.

So for polluting with N2 compounds I'd get a fine or time in jail. Would those be considered night rates?

Remember, a straight line is the shortest distance between two puns...
 
Gary D.:
You mean "Nitrogen Bug Poop".

The industry would be going after yet another card. "Nitrogen Pooper Scooper". You might have to show skills in using mini plastic pick-up bags and deposit them in the "Mini Nitrogen Poop Depository".

If you fail to dispose of it properly the "Mini Pooper Diving Police" or "Mini Pooper DM" could fine you or put your butt in "Mini Pooper Jail".

hehehe

Gary D.

you made me laugh!!!! Thanks, I needed that. This is a great thread, sorry I don't have any great ideas. Not enough experience.

However, I will say that yes, Tang does have it's own display here in the space portion at the US Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio. So, for what it's worth.... go NASA!! lol
 
glbirch:
So for polluting with N2 compounds I'd get a fine or time in jail. Would those be considered night rates?

Remember, a straight line is the shortest distance between two puns...

I don't know about Canada, But here in the USA some certification agency will require a diving "Go To Jail" card.

Ooops forget that. I think Milton Bradley got the rights for it along with a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card. They also have some cool Rail Roads and Hotels. ;^)

Gary D.
 
While the biotech explosion is impacting many areas of life, nitrogen fixing bacteria aren't likely to be introduced into the diving realm. Biological fixing of N2 forms ammonia, which isn't very good for your insides.

But some seemingly amazing things do happen without bioengineering. Finding a bacteria that eats PCBs (as one post suggested) does not require genetic engineering. Mother nature happliy has already solved this problem. All you have to do is go to a site which has been contaminated for a long time and dig up a few buckets of dirt. Prepare a few washings and plate them out on a minimal media which has PCB's as the only carbon source and see what grows.

So what does the future of diving hold? Since the fundamentals of diving haven't changed all that much in the last twenty years, I don't really expect any revolutions soon.
 
For those wanting to learn to do without their mask...
Snowbear posted: I've tried the squinting thing - still can't read my guages or see more than shapes, though. Haven't tried the bubble thing - though I can see that being bit difficult if only one hand is available for airtrapping. The no-mask stuff I need to practice is for training that will involve not getting to put my mask back on.

The practise they did in the documentary involved looking at cards with THIN black and white stripes and trying to determine which way the stripes went...I actually tried this and found it very hard to tell as the lines just "blurred" for me...you really need to practise and it gets harder to do as you grow older because the "muscles" are harder to train as they age and also your eye hardens with age...you can still learn they say...only it takes more time...practice makes perfect I guess....
 
Most of us are snowbear...
If we´re lucky we´ll all keep getting older for a long time :bounce:
 

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