We're all going to die

[ScubaSteve]

Believe it or not people, I think we are all saying the same thing just differently.....except that bashtard that said to get the government involved .....Great post I Dive

 

[elan]

We need to get the government involved immediately and have this industry regulated. 84 deaths per year out of 1 to 2 million active divers is totally unacceptable. With government regulation and oversight, I bet we could get that number up to 1000 or more within the first year... Then, the insurance companies can get together and decide how a credit score is correlated with risk of a diving accident and increase our rates accordingly. And then we can top it all off with a tax increase so that the government can bail out those same insurance companies that just jacked our rates sky high. Within just a few short years, between the government making diving 100 times more expensive than it currently is, and them taxing us so much we don't have any money left, the number of dive fatalities should drop back down to 84 per year it's currently at-because the number of people that can afford to dive has been reduced by 80%...

You should not be worrying you will have at least 1 or may be 2 more years of you go to Canada for diving where our guys will be behind at least 2 years in all those "innovations" or you can always go to Mexico where they will mostly be just laughing at that

 

[letterboy]

Believe it or not people, I think we are all saying the same thing just differently.....except that bashtard that said to get the government involved .....Great post I Dive

STOP IT!! We can not agree!!!!!!!


Tin foil hats anyone?

 

[TheScubaBOB]

I would not make such ignorant statements. It can be dangerous for kids as well as for adults that are occupied with other activities. Personally I have more things to do other than keeping track of all active moving parts of different automatic stuff in the house. People might not hear the doors for different reasons

Even in my car with the engine running I can hear my garage door when it's opening & closing.

The problem is that people should be aware of their environment and we should teach this to our children at a young age.

My kids have reached the ripe old ages of 14 & 17 without even a close call. I have got all the way to 39 and lived many years before to government decided that we need protection from the rash of "Garage Door Darwin Incidents" without ever having a close call.

I could even determine when the door didn't open and I failed to back out of my garage through the closed door. Imagine that, having Situational Awareness.

If a kid is too young to be aware of their surroundings then their parent should be aware of the situation around the child and not filing their nails, surfing porn or whatever else is more important that minute than the life of their child.

It's called Personal Responsibility. It can't be legislated. It can't be built into everything we buy. Either you accept it or I'll be reading about your untimely demise on the internet.

BTW, before you try to shoot me down with hearing issues: If someone has hearing issues then they should be more aware of the visual cues in their environment, again Personal Responsibility.

I'm actually suprised anyone who dives doesn't see this.

 

[ScubaSteve]

I could even determine when the door didn't open and I failed to back out of my garage through the closed door. Imagine that, having Situational Awareness.

I thought that was called "Rear View Mirror"

 

[elan]

Situational Awareness is not a yes/no category it's an analogue function with the limits laying in the area of from total unaware to may be the level required for the hero of Harry Harrison novel "Deathworld" to simply survive. You pick the level what you want to train your sensors to. While I grew up in a hostile environment of Western Siberia During and Post Communist Era and now I'm just surprised how we survived (we did have few accidents when my friends nearly died, one simply because his jacket was trapped by some spinning rod which was not closed as it was supposed to),.I know what survival skills are and awareness as well, but I do not advocate saving money on safety.
Those who want to develop situation awareness (I do not mean personally you) can go to Africa or Venezuela, join their gorilla team and have it at full scale. I would not blame people living here not to have the awareness of that of Jason dinAlt from "Deathworld"

 

[letterboy]

Situational Awareness is not a yes/no category it's an analogue function with the limits laying in the area of from total unaware to may be the level required for the hero of Harry Harrison novel "Deathworld" to simply survive. You pick the level what you want to train your sensors to.

how long did you go to school for psychology?

 

[TheScubaBOB]

how long did you go to school for psychology?

Apparently just long enough to learn that we should feel safer if the governments of the world unite and outlaw anything not wrapped in a 6 inch layer of bubblewrap because we are incapable of common sense.

 

[ScubaSteve]

Situational Awareness is not a yes/no category it's an analogue function with the limits laying in the area of from total unaware to may be the level required for the hero of Harry Harrison novel "Deathworld" to simply survive. You pick the level what you want to train your sensors to.

I agree with this however I believe that most people are capable of living life safely without fear of succumbing to death by SAFE garage door while falling somewhere between "Completely Oblivious" and "the Hero". One just needs to think and pay attention to achieve somewhere in the middle.

 

[letterboy]

Apparently just long enough to learn that we should feel safer if the governments of the world unite and outlaw anything not wrapped in a 6 inch layer of bubblewrap because we are incapable of common sense.

:rofl:

I agree with this however I believe that most people are capable of living life safely without fear of succumbing to death by SAFE garage door while falling somewhere between "Completely Oblivious" and "the Hero". One just needs to think and pay attention to achieve somewhere in the middle.

where do I fall in this scale?


I will BRB I have to run down the hall with these sharp scissors in my hand. . .