Good for you, Bri! Take lots of pics!
More proof...
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, Jan 12 2005 12:34 AM
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Posted 14 February 2005 - 02:44 PM
"Because I accept the definition, does not mean I accept the defined." -- ScubaHawk
"Love is blind but lust likes lacy panties" -- SanDiegoCarol
"If you're gonna be dumb, you'd better be tough." -- Phillip Manor
"If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't I'll just respond cleverly." -- Donald Rumsfeld
"Love is blind but lust likes lacy panties" -- SanDiegoCarol
"If you're gonna be dumb, you'd better be tough." -- Phillip Manor
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Posted 14 February 2005 - 10:00 PM
you're right, heather...i think that's the only way you'll be able to keep him ON DECK!!!!!!hmmmm..... gonna have to buy me some longer rope. triple braid I think!
hahahaha.
kiddin', bri. i'm with ya, dude....
oh...and i'm willing to look after the pups just in case......
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Posted 15 February 2005 - 09:53 AM
TF-don't worry.... I stuck silly putty in his P value! He won't get far.
Sempar Partus!!
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Posted 15 February 2005 - 12:02 PM
That's just SO wrong.
"Because I accept the definition, does not mean I accept the defined." -- ScubaHawk
"Love is blind but lust likes lacy panties" -- SanDiegoCarol
"If you're gonna be dumb, you'd better be tough." -- Phillip Manor
"If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't I'll just respond cleverly." -- Donald Rumsfeld
"Love is blind but lust likes lacy panties" -- SanDiegoCarol
"If you're gonna be dumb, you'd better be tough." -- Phillip Manor
"If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't I'll just respond cleverly." -- Donald Rumsfeld
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Posted 15 February 2005 - 08:38 PM
A couple of my dive buddies and i are thinking about Truk Lagoon next winter, but at some point i want to dive the doria too, its kinda the holy grail of wreck diving.
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Posted 15 February 2005 - 11:49 PM
I disagree about the Doria. I have a modest income. For the price and trouble of a trip out to the Andrea Doria, I can do several dives of equivalent challenge in my backyard where the wrecks are preserved and I am not rinsing salt out of my gear.A couple of my dive buddies and i are thinking about Truk Lagoon next winter, but at some point i want to dive the doria too, its kinda the holy grail of wreck diving.
The Andrea Doria was once well worth the trouble (two days of live-aboard diving with rough conditions in the North Atlantic). But by the accounts that I have read, there really isn't much left of her. A trip to see her isn't cheap and I value my vacation time as well as my money.
Truk Lagoon or Palau with WWII era ships sunk, or NC, that is a different story. You may even interest me in the U-869 for the challenge of seeing her and knowing that few divers will go down to see her. But, the Empress of Ireland allows more bottom time and allows you to sleep on LAND at night when you dive her even with rough water.
BTW ladies (getting back on topic, LOL), the putty was as bad as the glue that I was offered for that part of my drysuit
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Posted 17 February 2005 - 05:05 PM
Wait til you see what I do with the duct tape!!!
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Posted 17 February 2005 - 05:10 PM
are you going to post pictures??
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Posted 17 February 2005 - 10:57 PM
Wait til you see what I do with the duct tape!!!
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Posted 23 March 2005 - 02:35 AM
Class session 2:
We went over the homework. The other student dropped out, so it is just myself and Dr. Walker. That is cool with me. Now, Doc and I can schedule our class sessions so that I don't have to take vacation. It sounds like we will be using his boat as well as only two of us will be diving.
Two quarry dives for skills work are soon on the list. The first will be to 130 ft. on 28/30 using EAN36 and pure O2 for deco (all dives will be using these deco gases). The second will be to 130 ft. with whatever mix we get when we do air top offs on our tanks.
Then the fun starts:
We will be diving the Pewabic, the Viator, and the Florida out of the Presque Isle/Alpena area. The Florida will be my 200 ft. dive at the end of the course. This will be one dive/day to reduce the risk of getting bent. Looking at my gas management, we are looking at 20 min. bottom times on all of these dives. The bottom gas limits at 160 ft. with rule of thirds added in starts to stretch things. Two hundred ft. is just pushing gas management way too close if we plan any longer than a twenty minute bottom time. (.7 cu. ft./min RMV x 7.06= 4.942 cu. ft./min used at 200 ft. add in travel time and multiply by 1.5 to come up with rule of thirds and it is shocking how much gas you actually need to do this type of dive)
Obviously these will all be on mix. The most shallow of this group is about 155 ft.
More updates as I go through the months. Doc doesn't think that we will be done until late summer due to the fact that it isn't even safe to put a boat in the water up here until mid May. Arranging three trips out will take awhile. I am glad that I have some degree of patience. It will be sooooo worth it when I am done though.
We went over the homework. The other student dropped out, so it is just myself and Dr. Walker. That is cool with me. Now, Doc and I can schedule our class sessions so that I don't have to take vacation. It sounds like we will be using his boat as well as only two of us will be diving.
Two quarry dives for skills work are soon on the list. The first will be to 130 ft. on 28/30 using EAN36 and pure O2 for deco (all dives will be using these deco gases). The second will be to 130 ft. with whatever mix we get when we do air top offs on our tanks.
Then the fun starts:
We will be diving the Pewabic, the Viator, and the Florida out of the Presque Isle/Alpena area. The Florida will be my 200 ft. dive at the end of the course. This will be one dive/day to reduce the risk of getting bent. Looking at my gas management, we are looking at 20 min. bottom times on all of these dives. The bottom gas limits at 160 ft. with rule of thirds added in starts to stretch things. Two hundred ft. is just pushing gas management way too close if we plan any longer than a twenty minute bottom time. (.7 cu. ft./min RMV x 7.06= 4.942 cu. ft./min used at 200 ft. add in travel time and multiply by 1.5 to come up with rule of thirds and it is shocking how much gas you actually need to do this type of dive)
Obviously these will all be on mix. The most shallow of this group is about 155 ft.
More updates as I go through the months. Doc doesn't think that we will be done until late summer due to the fact that it isn't even safe to put a boat in the water up here until mid May. Arranging three trips out will take awhile. I am glad that I have some degree of patience. It will be sooooo worth it when I am done though.
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Posted 23 April 2005 - 01:07 AM
Well, the skills dives are done! I left for Gilboa Quarry at 10:00 am and got back at about 2:00 am (I had dinner with the instructors from the shop.).
My first time with double stage bottles... in a word... humbling. I made it through the skills, but I felt like a balloon with the weight of two HP130's on my back, plus my eighty filled with EAN36 and my LP45 filled with O2.
A day of wonderful things like no mask swims in 40 degree water to share air and replacing two stage bottles underwater with your eyes closed really goes a long ways towards letting you know what you need to practice (like everything, LOL). The worst part is that I actually was beginning to think that the challenge was fun instead of torture, LOL.
But, I am now ready for my wreck dives. My instructor will be contacting me when he gets his boat in the water and has time for a few fun times to finish my cert.
My first time with double stage bottles... in a word... humbling. I made it through the skills, but I felt like a balloon with the weight of two HP130's on my back, plus my eighty filled with EAN36 and my LP45 filled with O2.
A day of wonderful things like no mask swims in 40 degree water to share air and replacing two stage bottles underwater with your eyes closed really goes a long ways towards letting you know what you need to practice (like everything, LOL). The worst part is that I actually was beginning to think that the challenge was fun instead of torture, LOL.
But, I am now ready for my wreck dives. My instructor will be contacting me when he gets his boat in the water and has time for a few fun times to finish my cert.
A person should be judged in this life not by the mistakes that they make nor by the number of them. Rather they are to be judged by their recovery from them.
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Posted 23 April 2005 - 08:34 AM
the weight of two HP130's on my back
This is the main reason why I started looking into rebreathers, and then found so many more reasons to own one, or two... somebody stop me....
I just completed a swiftwater rescue class with my dive rescue team, I swear the instructor was trying to drown all of us, but the torture did end up being fun, in a weird sort of way. Great job Brian, someday I hope to see you down deep with a big grin on your face
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