Too many projects, not enough time

[LiteHedded]

gotta get a food tube man. you can put stuff that actually tastes good in those

 

[ucfdiver]

Any rescue plan if someone got bent and still had a sump to go? I know when I took a bent diver to the hospital, walking down steps wasn't fun, let alone crawling rock climbing style...

 

[rjack321]

Any rescue plan if someone got bent and still had a sump to go? I know when I took a bent diver to the hospital, walking down steps wasn't fun, let alone crawling rock climbing style...

Steel 72 of O2 is good for about 1.5 hrs with backgas breaks.

IMO you have to have some acceptance of at least field mitigation of a DCS hit. Transport times to even EMS, nevermind a chamber, are otherwise just too obscene to think about in this region. Its one reason why I have an outline of a basic neuro exam in the back of my wetnotes.

Broken leg or ankle especially if compound would actually be far more serious than all but the most extreme DCS.

 

[Dive-aholic]

Because it's a complete cluster **** with stages. Everyone says it's not, but no one has posted a video to show otherwise.

Also, I'm not a huge fan of swapping regs on the motor...accidentally swap to a dead reg and you've got a recipe for buddy separation while your buddy is continuing and you're coughing your guts out. I know everyone says it's really simple, but a recent student of a well known and highly recommended sidemount instructor recently posted a video after her course, and she stills swaps to dead regs during a valve drill. It's a real concern.

I guess I'll have to get a stage video up. I've never had an issue with diving stages in SM and almost every personal dive I do is a staged SM dive.

As for swapping to a dead reg, it's not an issue. Valves stay open. I know you're talking about me and my student. These were valve drills. My BM students do the exact same thing during BM valve drills. This is not unique to SM. In a real life valve shut down, you wouldn't be swapping back to the other reg in SM, where as in BM, you could if you shut down the wrong valve. So it's more of an issue in BM.

Nice try, but you just provided me an opportunity to show another advantage of SM over BM.