Tired of Digging...

[Timeliner]

Well ZzzKing... You got me and now I've been found out.
We could only keep Paradise to ourselves "in code" for just so long before "somebody" leaked it to the world. :shakehead

There now .. are you proud of yourself ???

Andrew & Alan & I saw a heck of a lot bigger Turtle out there yesterday then that little spud. The Turtle had been dead for several hundred years but he was a heck of a lot bigger thats for sure. ( I think it was a turtle :huh: 'might have just been a hub cap or a retread)
You must have been using that new 10X macro lens you bought.
Show off ! ~~ Blue water snob !! :mooner:

Ha !!!
Hey I have to hear about your trip dude !! I bet it was 2cool

The Sirens are calling . Rub some mud in your mask and come join me sometime !

 

[ZzzKing]

Frank,

This was posted in the Basic Scuba Forum. If only you had been born poor and in Mexico City...

Sewer Diver
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Julio Cesar Cu wanted to be an oceanographer but instead he swims through foul-smelling sewage in underground tunnels where the occasional dead body bobs beside excrement and car parts. Paid just $400 (203 pounds) a month to de-clog the miles of sewage tunnels running beneath the Mexican capital, diver Cu comes across the nastiest of flotsam. "The oddest have been dead animals, animal heads, dead people," he said. "Unfortunately a lot of bodies end up here." Cu's job is to prevent blockages in tunnels of up to 20-feet (6-metre) wide that could cause sewage to flood onto city streets. "Once, we fished out car parts which I think would have fit together to make a whole car," he said. It is so dark down amid the cold liquid waste of some 18 million inhabitants that Cu and his three fellow divers cannot see and have to feel their way along the tunnel walls. Dressed in a thick red wetsuit, Cu pulls debris out with his hands or unblocks tunnels with a stick.The divers receive air through a tube connected to the surface and are attached to a safety harness to stop them being swept away, as happened to one colleague 21 years ago who died in a torrent of filthy water while clearing a blockage. One of 10 brothers from a poor family, Cu did not have enough money to finance studies to become an oceanographer. He began diving at 18 and soon became a scuba instructor. He later took a job clearing debris out of the ageing Mexico City sewers, and has been immersed in the brown stuff ever since. "I like diving as a sport. As a job I like it even more," he said. "I do a job that benefits a lot of people." He and his team inspect the deepest 103-mile (166-km) section of the sewers, through which 9,200 gallons (35,000 litres) of liquid pour ever second. Some of the city's sewers are open, allowing debris to fall in, or be dumped. At the end of each shift, the divers scrub their wetsuits with detergent, removing the stink of urine and rotten waste.

 

[Willie]

Now that is some dedicated diving. Makes the Texas Lakes look wonderful on the worst day.

Willie

 

[LakeScubaDiver]

Drysuit...lift bags...buddy line...Big Bertha light...plus a few other items!

Explain "buddy line"....(serious question!) as I have thought of this before, but not thought it was feasible.....

Chris

 

[NadMat]

Explain "buddy line"....(serious question!) as I have thought of this before, but not thought it was feasible.....

Chris

Not sure what he uses for his, but my buddy line is a piece of thick yellow polypro with a large loop in each end, slightly positive so doesn't drag bottom, short enough to avoid to most entanglement problems. Useful for low/zero vis conditions, great for shore entries where shallows are zero vis till you get deeper/farther out, basically a leash for your buddy and you.

 

[Crazyduck]

Depends what you want to spend.
I buy a 6ft dog leash- red flat nylon
Then cut off the piston clip off the end.
REI sells cheap carabineers for key rings, buy two.
Attach a carabineer at both ends.
Walla… your done.

If you use one carabineer and the dog leash you have a great jon line.
Take the small end and attach the carabineer.
Loop the line around the shot line and attach to chest d-ring.
Do not attach to plastic d-rings they tend to shatter!
If not metal d-rings loop around should harness.

This is also a great way to attach fins to you if you are having a hard time getting out of the water and need both hands.

Andrew

Explain "buddy line"....(serious question!) as I have thought of this before, but not thought it was feasible.....

Chris