Northwest Dive Club

It's DUE! wrote: 2.) what every one else is saying. OH MY GOT! I AM A PARROT!!!

IIRC, it wasn't everyone else, it was just me.

Since I posted a dive report here. Chris' recent dive recap out here got me a bit motivated. Figured I'd post a report and see if maybe a few more tech divers want to mosey out here for a week or so. :-) There is a coal ship that sunk over 100 years ago about 1,000 feet away from the Sea Tiger wreck...

Gotta love those sand clouds.

Curt,

The Mahi has recently collapsed even more since when I arrived last year.

The front end is severed and completely impassable now.

The camera removes 4 shades of tan.

Why are you looking at my legs? I'm flattered.

Great vid. Who says you can't run a rEvo on its back? :-)

Great report. Very nice read. Love the pre sinking pics.

Rebreather diving is not for those who lack the ability to maintain attention to detail. I'll even take it a step further... Neither is open circuit tech diving. Deadly pilot error happens on OC as well. In the last 2 years, I know of 2 deaths from Ox tox on open circuit. One was a tech instructor b...

H20doctor wrote:

pensacoladiver wrote:You stated there is no need for a rebreather shallower than 200 feet.

Once again, I'm asking, how many dives do you have between 130 and 199?

I have 2 dives to 137 feet ...

I know for a fact that one of them was on the "Miracle of Life"

But that takes time and effort. F THAT. I wants my respect and I wants it now. Y'all better respects my opinion.

Matt, I think you are getting a little harsh here. I am sharing my opinion, which may not be derived entirely from 1st hand experience, but rather from talking to many divers, and asking them about it. . This just gets better by the post. There are 2 parts to your statement above. 1. That you are a...

I'll bet you have received worse insults by better people.

BoB has a brother named Neal. They hang out together quite a bit.

Overall, I don't give a crap how their unit works, if there's a problem they get an OC reg (mine or their bailout). I don't care what green vs orange vs red blinking lights mean. I am not going to be attempting to salvage their loop into something breathable. Simple, end of story. : You mean to tel...

Not many. I am very recently certified in technical diving. I can only share my opinion, which is limited. Yet, I do not think this makes what I am saying invalid, or terribly ill-informed. I might ask, how would you view my comments if I had 200-300 dives in the 130-199 range? I would view them mu...

You stated there is no need for a rebreather shallower than 200 feet.

Once again, I'm asking, how many dives do you have between 130 and 199?

my CCR takes me an hour before and an hour after the dive to get through all the pre and post dive work and checks, etc. its a pita. Holy shit. What unit are you diving? I sure as hell would not dive one either if I had 2 hours of my day invested into pre and post dive maintenance and checks. How l...

H20doctor wrote:[sarcasm]i dive with re breather people, and they are so cool[/sarcasm]

Without a doubt, I am the coolest guy I know.

2. No, I do not go on dives to the 200'+ realm. Does this mean I don't want to ever, no. But I stand by what I have said. I still see very little reason for a rebreather above that depth. As you can see, this is a continuing dialog within the GUE community, I (and many others) disagree with Koos (w...

And does the apparatus give you some flashing red major failure indicator ? :) Speaking only for the rEvo, it most certainly does. Bright flashing red light if you are going to kill yourself with too much oxygen Bright orange flashing light if you are going to kill yourself with too little oxygen. ...

DUE is GUE Tec 1 certified....around 20-21 years old.... I'd bear the age in mind in this discussion imo....he is passionate as we all were at that age.. Maybe I was, it was so long ago, I can't remember. Why not, since we are bringing training agencies into it... The GUE divers I tend to get along...

A bottle of UHP here is 500 bucks. Industrial grade is 400.

That works out to about $1.20 a cubic foot or so... Which is way to expensive for me to be blowing it out with every breath.... For the number of deep dives I do.

I'll be back one day and ill damn sure take you up.

I have accepted the fact that I am a wimp and recently started using a dry suit out here in paradise.

I'll be set for the cold water up that a way.

And if you have such a terrible rate of breathing that you need a breather for any amount of time at depth', then I would say you have bigger things to worry about, and no business technical diving What the hell, while I'm typing.... If you think folks think the solution to a high sac is to hop ont...

That is to say that one does not need helium above 200 feet. Newsflash! There is such a thing as open circuit trimix. I personally believe below 100 warrants trimix. And no, you do not need a rebreather to use it. and FWIW- sure, if you find yourself doing hours down at 200', maybe a breather is a ...