Tacoma Equipment Dive on Saturday

[Shaker100]

Ben Price and I are doing a equipment test dive to approximately 100 ft in the Tacoma area on Saturday morning, if anyone has new Christmas equipment they want to test out at depth, feel free to join us. We'll be diving on 32% nitrox with standard AL80's.

The location has yet to be selected.

[Dusty2]

80's to a hundred feet??? ewe!

[Scubak]

[spatman]

+1

[Norris]

[Geek]

LMAO, I was going to post that this morning but held my.... errr... keyboard

[wallyc72]

Good rule of thumb. Dive no deeper than the cuft in your tank. 80 cuft = 80 foot dive.

[Shaker100]

I just had my wife veto this equipment dive. Sorry. Thanks for the posts. Hope this reaches you.

Yes, 80's to 100 ft. You'd be surprised what a skinny man with an AL80 can do.

[cardiver]

Reaches who?

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[Waynne Fowler]

Reaches who?

It was good to meet ya yesterday Cardiver.... heard ya picked up a weezle after all!
I 'hope' you can fit that fridge sized torso into a double x!

[cardiver]

Reaches who?

It was good to meet ya yesterday Cardiver.... heard ya picked up a weezle after all!
I 'hope' you can fit that fridge sized torso into a double x!

Nice to meet you, also. I wish it wasn't such a haul from Enumclaw to Oly.
You guys really do need to buy some red and white paint and slap a dive flag on the side of your shop!

[BASSMAN]

I just had my wife veto this equipment dive. Sorry. Thanks for the posts. Hope this reaches you.

Yes, 80's to 100 ft. You'd be surprised what a skinny man with an AL80 can do.

[whatevah]

You'd be surprised what a skinny man with an AL80 can do.

Well I say what many are thinking here.

If your going to get stupid on an aluminum 80...

Welcome to the forum Shaker100. Nobody here is pompous or rude. Please remember to submit every dive plan to the local SCUBA police for their approval - without it you will surely DIE like the millions of other divers who do not fully conform to their standards.

[Sounder]

Just use the force and trust your instincts.

[Diver_C]

The MOD on 32 is 111 FSW, so can't really go much beyond 100 FSW. The poster did say it was an equipment test dive, which could mean it it is intended to be a very short dive, and AL80s could handle that. And perhaps both divers are skinny too, as each diver would be sure the other has enough gas not only for themselves, but also for their buddy just in case something goes wrong.

Happy New Year!!!

[spatman]

oh no, people are expressing their opinions about gas management! whatevah shall we do?!?

i know! let's start a contentious discussion about how people approach planning their dives, the sizes of the tanks they use, and how those who don't prescribe to one methodology or another are WRONG. it's been 3 whole months since we've done that! let's resurrect that dead horse one more time for the new users who have joined since then!

it doesn't matter that many methods are valid, and it's up to the individual diver to be smart and choose the techniques that work for them, right? it's all about infighting, and shouting down each other on an internet forum! to hell with imparting good information to the readers of the forum, it's about proving ourselves right!

whattaya say, guys? shall we start the new year off with a bang, with division and argument? just like old times! let's tussle!






*obviously this is full of sarcasm, for those of you who don't know me well.

[Norris]

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[ktb]

Well at least some things don't change when the calendar flips to a new year.

[Joshua Smith]

ROFL- yeah, sometimes I just can't freaking believe it. It's like that movie "groundhog day" or something. I'm kind of shocked that 19 people haven't tried to cram a gas management seminar down the OPs throat yet.

oh no, people are expressing their opinions about gas management! whatevah shall we do?!?

i know! let's start a contentious discussion about how people approach planning their dives, the sizes of the tanks they use, and how those who don't prescribe to one methodology or another are WRONG. it's been 3 whole months since we've done that! let's resurrect that dead horse one more time for the new users who have joined since then!

it doesn't matter that many methods are valid, and it's up to the individual diver to be smart and choose the techniques that work for them, right? it's all about infighting, and shouting down each other on an internet forum! to hell with imparting good information to the readers of the forum, it's about proving ourselves right!

whattaya say, guys? shall we start the new year off with a bang, with division and argument? just like old times! let's tussle!






*obviously this is full of sarcasm, for those of you who don't know me well.

[spatman]

Well at least some things don't change when the calendar flips to a new year.

it's true, i will always and forever be a wiseass.

[Grateful Diver]

I'm kind of shocked that 19 people haven't tried to cram a gas management seminar down the OPs throat yet.

You say that like it's a bad thing ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

[Dashrynn]

LOUD NOISES!, I DONT KNOW WHAT WE ARE YELLING ABOUT!

[Grateful Diver]

LOUD NOISES!, I DONT KNOW WHAT WE ARE YELLING ABOUT!

People are getting yelled at for suggesting that maybe doing deep dives on small tanks ain't a smart move, Curtis. Apparently, we're not supposed to talk about gas management on this board anymore.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

[ktb]

Oh I don't know about that Bob. I think it's that someone silly enough to announce that they are planning to go to 100 fsw with an AL80 should KNOW that they have opened themselves up to a lot of crap.

Doesn't anyone lurk anymore before posting?? Or perhaps reading old threads is too much work . . .

[Grateful Diver]

kind of shocked that 19 people haven't tried to cram a gas management seminar down the OPs throat yet.

I didn't realize that driving around the PNW at my own expense, giving seminars for free constituted "cramming" ... that's gotta be just about the most insulting thing someone who I thought was a friend has ever told me.

I guess this would be a bad time to mention there's one coming up in Vancouver in two weeks ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)