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MikeJacobs
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We kinda left it hanging until we actuall SAW what the Grove now looks like.
IM(VH)O, the reason the Grove is not any safer today is because there are now more ways to screw up. I have to respect Brent's approach to screening divers for ability.
Before the Grove turned upright, the danger for less experienced or out of practice divers to drop right to the sand... it was like diving a wall.
We really don't have that problem anymore, though I suppose the possibility still exists for somebody to get disoriented negotiating around the outside of the superstructure from the bow-deck, and drop without realizing it... but there are plenty of portholes and landmarks to keep divers from doing this.
Of course, there's still the current, though it seems to slack around the boat.
But the big problem now is that there is just so much to see and do that it's easier to lose track of time... of course I'm writing about less cautious, less experienced divers, but there's just no way to see the whole boat on one dive, where before we could easily visit the screws from the bow and make it back with plenty of time to spare.
Add the "bounce" factor (it's now more of a multi-level dive if it ever was), and all those irrestable penetration opportunities and divers can really get themselves into trouble.
Thanks, Brent, for being one of the few boats that really screen divers for the Grove.
IM(VH)O, the reason the Grove is not any safer today is because there are now more ways to screw up. I have to respect Brent's approach to screening divers for ability.
Before the Grove turned upright, the danger for less experienced or out of practice divers to drop right to the sand... it was like diving a wall.
We really don't have that problem anymore, though I suppose the possibility still exists for somebody to get disoriented negotiating around the outside of the superstructure from the bow-deck, and drop without realizing it... but there are plenty of portholes and landmarks to keep divers from doing this.
Of course, there's still the current, though it seems to slack around the boat.
But the big problem now is that there is just so much to see and do that it's easier to lose track of time... of course I'm writing about less cautious, less experienced divers, but there's just no way to see the whole boat on one dive, where before we could easily visit the screws from the bow and make it back with plenty of time to spare.
Add the "bounce" factor (it's now more of a multi-level dive if it ever was), and all those irrestable penetration opportunities and divers can really get themselves into trouble.
Thanks, Brent, for being one of the few boats that really screen divers for the Grove.
