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Old 08-09-2012, 10:13 PM
NoBones NoBones is offline
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I tried.......
Showed you the advantage of "Cracker Air"... and what do you do??
Still trying to re-event the wheel..

No muss no fuss...
Just pull and GO!!
The hint should have been obvious when Skip & Carla smoked you on the
count!!!

Sandy, two taps on the head!!
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Old 08-10-2012, 08:15 AM
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I tried.......
Showed you the advantage of "Cracker Air"... and what do you do??
Still trying to re-event the wheel..

No muss no fuss...
Just pull and GO!!
The hint should have been obvious when Skip & Carla smoked you on the
count!!!

Sandy, two taps on the head!!
I think SkipperT had gathered some good intel.

I think the tank idea has lots of merit.

outside the lines,
gfs
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Old 08-13-2012, 11:01 PM
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Just home from school. Wayne, our Professor of Puffing was great. Just like us. Salty and in love with all that comes with the passion. He has a camera that cost more than Snook`s new tow rig.

He said the new freediving record was 500 + ft.

I said nothing. Brian showed me "Blue Water Hunters" around `94.

An old vhs tape with locals like Jimmy Miller and his merry band of psychos who freedive way too deep.

If anyone has a copy of that sign me up.

Passed all the swim tests at the end of our lesson. Three hours and only two smokes.

I normally don`t sit thru a movie.

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Old 08-15-2012, 11:08 PM
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In the pool tonight. First time with a BC and octopus. Learned manual inflation and rip cord deflation. Mask clearing. Regulator clearing. The BC and octo were new to me. This is lots of fun.

As Denny said, a lot of this is not new to me, but the sage advice and real world experience is essential for anything deeper than one at most sphere or 33 ft. The Keys are one thing.

Over 30 is another ballgame!

Bugzzz beware,
GFS

You can blow your lungs/brain up in 30 ft or less.

You can also freedive down to 200 and come right back up.

We dove as deep as we could as squids.Equalizzze your squids. They will thank you later.

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Old 08-16-2012, 01:19 PM
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You can blow your lungs/brain up in 30 ft or less.

You can also freedive down to 200 and come right back up.
Well if you stay above 30 ft, you won't get bent, but you can blow a lung in less than 10 ft of water. Knew a guy in college who was scuba diving in a pool and thought the air would last longer if he held his breath instead of breathing regularly. Everything was fine until he surfaced from the bottom while holding his breath. He popped a lung and had a big air bubble under the skin by his collar bone. He wasn't certified and I guess nobody had told him about embolism. Ouch!
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Old 08-16-2012, 02:02 PM
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Well if you stay above 30 ft, you won't get bent, but you can blow a lung in less than 10 ft of water. Knew a guy in college who was scuba diving in a pool and thought the air would last longer if he held his breath instead of breathing regularly. Everything was fine until he surfaced from the bottom while holding his breath. He popped a lung and had a big air bubble under the skin by his collar bone. He wasn't certified and I guess nobody had told him about embolism. Ouch!
Ouch indeed. Can't wait to blind some bugzz. with130
lumens of led power. Thing a speargun is on the shopping list.
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Old 08-16-2012, 07:46 PM
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Thing a speargun is on the shopping list.
Now that is a truly terrifying mental picture; the very fast sandman with a pointy projectile weapon.
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