Water as weight rather than lead?

[The Chairman]

Dweeb

you chose to be a jerk about the whole deal. I have no idea why you chose to act in such a condescending manner, but when you do, you only give yourself and our board a bad name. The only real point that you have made is that you have zero patience and even fewer people skills. Give it a rest while you are still behind. There is no justifying your meanness and you have NO RIGHT to demand that anyone give up anything unless you issued the cards.

Please people, if you have anything to add to the original subject of the THREAD (humor acceptable) and not the personalities involved, please do so. If you only want to tear down in order to make yourself look cool, then please do so in PMs. All subsequent posts about who's a troll and who's not will be deleted without compunction or notification.

 

[Mako Mark]

So, a backplate of DU would weigh out around 15 lbs, and would stop anything short of an artillery round.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO WHALER KYLE??

 

[perpet1]

ignorant, maybe, but no troll

actually, it's a real question that came up during a dive with
some buddies this weekend

and yes, i am serious

and thanks for pointing out how ridiculous my question is
and that i should not have asked it in the first place.
better to keep your mouth shut than to learn anything useful,
at the risk of showing you don't know something, right?

It is not that you should not have asked it is just that you should have known the answer given that you are a qualified diver. This board is harsh when it comes to the basics.

Archimedes Principal is the basic concept by which we establish bouyency and by your question you showed that you had no absolutly no understanding of that. I would hope that the response of this board will prompt you to become more knowledgable with regards to the basic concepts we employ every time we enter the water as divers.

The fact that this came up as a topic within a group of divers is quite honestly a bit unnerving. :11:

 

[mccabejc]

Apparently the expectations for "knowing the basics" doesn't including being able to spell.....

(sorry, couldn't resist..)

 

[Green_Manelishi]

the question:

can you use water as weight, instead of lead weight?

For example, say that you take containers of water instead of lead. Yes, water weights six pounds per gallon, so you would have to take two gallons of water to equal 12 pounds, but...

Say you tie two milk gallons full of water to your waist...

Wouldn’t it be the same as wearing lead weights?

We were having this discussion, and someone was saying that wouldn’t work, because the water would “float on water."

is this correct?

Yes but only if you place the water in a lead pouch

 

[H2Andy]

It is not that you should not have asked it is just that you should have known the answer given that you are a qualified diver. This board is harsh when it comes to the basics.

hey....

when you have bouyancy as good as mine, you don't
ask questions, man.... you just groove, man... you
just do it, man.... let the losers talk about it, man...



(ce'st ici ne's pas une aqualung)

 

[widebody50]

Don't even go there.....................
We hav'nt given up the Pound...............YET :11:

And if you can find a pub selling a pint for a pound, let me know

And yes there are some Realy REALY stupid laws coming out of the EU, No curved cucumbers, Metric weights and mearsures for the good old stale holder selling fresh veg to the pensioners who don't understand metric :11:

Can I emigrate........................PLEASE

Why not? Seems like the doors are always flung wide open for most anyone who wants to come! And, I could always use another dive buddy!!!

 

[perpet1]

It is not that you should not have asked it is just that you should have known the answer given that you are a qualified diver. This board is harsh when it comes to the basics.

hey....

when you have bouyancy as good as mine, you don't
ask questions, man.... you just groove, man... you
just do it, man.... let the losers talk about it, man...



(ce'st ici ne's pas une aqualung)

Noted...... why don't you just strap on your water bottles and see how good your bouyency is then.

 

[H2Andy]

nah, man... i ask first, read up, man... check things out, check out the vibes,
know what i mean?

let captain kirk go where no man has gone before, man...

 

[dweeb]

It is not that you should not have asked it is just that you should have known the answer given that you are a qualified diver.

BINGO!!!

Archimedes Principal is the basic concept by which we establish bouyency and by your question you showed that you had no absolutly no understanding of that.

And his role as a moderator, and tendency to come off as an authority of sorts, only exacerbates it. What if someone here was giving outright dangerous advice to a novice diver - lacking such basic diving knowledge, what if he was the only moderator following the thread? Who would do anything about it? It seems to me that to moderate discussions about potentially fatal activities, a prerequisite is basic knowledge of those activities.

I would hope that the response of this board will prompt you to become more knowledgable with regards to the basic concepts we employ every time we enter the water as divers.

My sentiments exactly.

The fact that this came up as a topic within a group of divers is quite honestly a bit unnerving. :11:

Ditto that.