Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
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I have dove in the North Sea quite a bit. In addition to those concerns the sea state can change crazy fast and is less predictable than in many other places. I have gone out in a gentle swell, and come back hanging on for my life when the forecast did not call for it. You don't have the fast moving squall lines like we do, but that just means you have less heads up when a north wind decides it's going to triple in speed in an hour. That sort of diving is a young man's game for sure.
I’m sure many of these stories are true. I’m equally sure just as many are John Kerryish bullshit.
Go to a VFW or American legion, you'll see enough kerryish bullshit to make you not want to come back.
Between helicopter door gunners, lrrp, snipers and POWs, a liar doesn't have a chance in there.
I was there, and your statement is pretty accurate for a generality.
Tiger Force, 68/69.
Trust me... as a cave diver myself (refer to my Avatar), that would never happen. Not for me, at least. When we do cave dives, we ensure that the cave is well scoped out in advance and lined properly. One of the very basic rules of cave diving is "Always keep a continuous line to open water This, so you can find your way back when it's time to turn back. We would already know where "Devil's U-Turn" is and how it works long before we entered it. And it it was way too tricky, we'd bypass it for a much safer route. Believe it or not, there is actually, a training cave (where newbie cave divers go to train) here in FL called "Devil's Den." Open water divers can also dive there as the entrance is big enough for them as well. But there are portions of it that are gated off with the infamous "grim reaper" sign attached to encourage you to stay out.
We would never (or should never) impose that kind of risk on ourselves and our families... if for no other reason than it also imposes the same risk to the rescue divers that have to come in behind us and recover the bodies. Perhaps an even greater risk. Not saying all cave divers are that "dedicated" to safety, but they should be.
I've done a lot of cave dives and also some really deep trimix wreck dives. For those properly trained, cave diving is relatively easy as the risks and their solutions have been documented extensively. With maybe one exception I can think of (Parker Turner at Indian Spring), people don't die following the 5 basic cave diving rules.It's that simple for the trained.
Diving deep in the ocean is a different deal. Your path home is often not the same as the one that got you there, so you can't reliably stage extra gas. There are a lot of other variables that are not easily planned for. I decided that these dives were too risky and stopped doing them. My buddies went to rebreathers, which presented other risks I didn't accept. I had insane thrills on these dives and saw stuff that very few will ever see, but realized that sooner or later I'd either fuck up or run into a situation I couldn't deal with.
I'll cave dive until I can't strap on a set of doubles and have the cognitive ability to understand my gauges, instictively remember my training, and understand the line markers. I was trained by decent instructors, but later matured diving with some of the best in the world. I'm not in their class, but I've learned a lot, especially knowing when to turn the dive and try again tomorrow.
In the ocean, I've come to like single tank diving on pretty reefs in warm water. If you go out to the ledges near where you are IIRC, there are huge lobsters. On an overnight spearfishing trip, I remember getting one that weighed 8 lbs and having a feast on the boat that night. We'd go out from Little River but land our catch in Southport because of rules. Thinking of Southport, is Wayne Strickland still around? He was an avid wreck diver. Is his museum still there?
When I was 16, I played in the Metropolitan Ice Hockey Association for the West NY Vics Juniors. Kevin Flynn and I were the youngest (and smallest) members of the team. Most of the team members were from Hell's Kitchen and a pretty tough bunch. We had the opportunity to play a game in the Garden one Sunday before the Ranger game. Our locker room was next to the Rangers and after our game we were invited to their locker room and meet them. They were putting their pads on and I couldn't believe how big these guys were. They were really cool and shook hands with several of them including Tkaczuk and Rod Gilbert.
Speaking of Rod Gilbert, one day at practice one of my teammates whom I will not mention shows up completely decked out in Gilbert's No. 7 uniform. Evidently, when the Rangers were loading their gear bags on the bus for the airport, this unnamed individual seized the opportunity to avail himself to Gilbert's bag. Created quite a stir and a scramble to get new gear.
Let’s see, no defensible space, trees/bushes right up to/overhanging the building, looks like some of the trees are/were eucalyptus (oily torches), no roof top sprinklers or water tank, and the list goes on. Note the house in the upper left has a lawn (defensible space), tile roof and probably stucco walls and is still standing.
Yet I’ve also seen houses with the recommended precautions burn too. The fire, fuel, terrain, and wind ALL have a hand in it.
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The standard I used was whatever you need for the bottom, 50% nitrox or a trimix with 50% O2 at 70 ft and then O2 at 20 ft. You break to bottom gas regularly to keep from too much time at the 1.6 atm partial pressure. I run my bottom mix at 1.0-1.2 max pp, as I'm more afraid of O2 than of a few more minutes of deco.
"Oxygen is addictive and deadly, everyone who breathes it will eventually die." - Dr Bill Hamilton
Due to the risk of oxygen toxicity, a diver can only safely scuba dive to a very shallow depth when breathing 100% oxygen, typically around 13 feet (3.9 meters), as exceeding this depth can lead to seizures from central nervous system oxygen toxicity.
I work at a hospital, between that and 5 years in Afghanistan as a very low speed civilian I think I must have met every SEAL, delta Force and Recon guy to have ever done the job. It's weird how no one was ever a truck driver or cook..
3 meters - 10 feet
20 feet - 6 meters......
Yeah. I don't convert to/from metric all that much, these days. The answer is 20 ft. in the USA. It is clear that some countries are a bit more strict than others and their standards are different.
That's a much more conservative standard than I was taught. I was taught 20 ft. And my dive computer is set to 20 ft. If I went down to 20.5 feet on pure O2, it balked at me until I got back up to 20 ft, wherein it gave me the "smiley face."
What I am seeing is the house is burned, but no signs of fire in any of the brush or trees around the house?
Ya know.... for a brief moment, I was going to add her to the list of GAOW candidates for this week.
NFW! Besides, I think it's Fake/AI.
I went back and looked at it on something larger than a phone screen, to my eye there is fire damage to the pampas grass clumps and continuing to the left of the image, but not total destruction like I’ve seen in some of the catastrophic fires up here. To be honest I’m hard pressed to make the call about the vegetation burn causing or being caused by the structure fire.
But my earlier points are still valid on the lack of fire Resistant landscaping. If I were still on an Engine and doing pre-planing she would have received a packet of recommendations and we would log our observations.
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It may be stuffed but I bet it still manages to shit on everything it doesn't tear up.
