Author Topic: If your country were about to be "invaded"... (Read 1566 times)

Wlfgng · « **Reply #45 on:** April 15, 2003, 03:41:27 PM »

of course in that cold water there isn't much to see except at night... brrr

Martlet · « **Reply #46 on:** April 15, 2003, 05:31:49 PM »

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Originally posted by 2stony
Although I don't dive, my wife is into it big time. We live next to Puget Sound and she's done more night dives than in daylight. For those not familiar with Puget Sound, the water temperature in the summer is in the low 50s. She regularly dives in mid-40s water during the winter(yes, she has a dry suit).

I dived to pay my way through college. I harvested echinoderms. The season is only in the winter. Some days we'd dive 6 tanks or so, but usually just 3 or 4.

I grew up in Maine, and dove there and in Nova Scotia. The lowest I've seen the temperature on my octopus was 31 degrees. That's when your 1st stage starts freezing and you get the occaisional free flow.

In the summor months, there is plenty to see during the day, also. I usually prefer night dives, though.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #47 on:** April 15, 2003, 05:37:16 PM »

ex Coast Guard diver.. had cold before (Antartic)

to me it was work.. (like it was for you apparently)
I doubt I'd dive in anything cold unless I had to !
gimme the south pacific thanks

Martlet · « **Reply #48 on:** April 15, 2003, 06:04:07 PM »

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Originally posted by Wlfgng
ex Coast Guard diver.. had cold before (Antartic)

to me it was work.. (like it was for you apparently)
I doubt I'd dive in anything cold unless I had to !
gimme the south pacific thanks

I spend a lot of time in South America and the Carib. Now THAT'S diving.

Makofan · « **Reply #49 on:** April 15, 2003, 10:12:51 PM »

If Canada was invaded by anybody but the US, the US would fight for us

If we were invaded by the US, Quebec would surrender (being French and all that) and the rest of us would throw flowers.

Maverick · « **Reply #50 on:** April 15, 2003, 10:18:37 PM »

Skuzzy it would seem that miko's purely tasteless and stupid remark regarding the loss of children in a day care center meets the criteria for your action.

StSanta · « **Reply #51 on:** April 16, 2003, 04:48:55 AM »

Martlet wrote:
what the hell is advanced scuba diving?

Well, it's the grey area between true technical diving and normal style no decompression diving. Basically limited decompression diving, wreck penetration, use of redundant gas system and the like.

It is now however use of trimix or extensive 1h+ deco diving. As it is, there isn't really a term for it, so I call it 'advanced' scuba diving, since it is a good deal more dangerous and advanced than yer normal no deco nature dive and requires more equipment, training and planning.

Hope this clarifies it. Oh btw; since you scuba dive, I gotta tease you a little; how many Whiskey class Russian submarines have you dived? We got one lying outside Anholt in 40 meters of water. Was towed to be sold for scrap, but sank. Cannot penetrate it but escape hatches, rudder, conning tower etc are visible and the wreck as a whole very well preserved.

Well worth checking out if yer going to DK.

Diving in close to the coast sucks though, with max visibility here in northern Dk being around 9 feet. On a good day. Wildlife is also sparese compared to for instance Norway of the Swedish west coast - but we have great wreck diving here, including lots of WWII artefacts - shot down allied bombers, German submarines, merchant vessels and the like. Conditions vary wildly and unpredictably though, which makes it sort of a hassle.

In wintertime nothing beats a good dry suit, although I must admit one is a good deal less flexible in such a one. And I always worry about snagging it on some piece of metal in an area I can't reach.

But diving sure sounds to me like a lot more fun than being shot at.

Someone said 'LIVE FREE OR DIE' as a response to one of my posts. Maybe that person misread me; was saying that IF I could live freely *without* having to risk my life to do so, why should I risk it? I mean, I see things in terms of risk management - always eliminate or minimize as many of 'em as possible. So if I can reach my objective through a risk of 0, I am gonna do that. That's not being a coward - it's just using common sense.

Martlet · « **Reply #52 on:** April 16, 2003, 04:53:30 AM »

I'll never be in DK.

I do have a few UBoat dives, though, and a ton of wrecks.

Not to mention ice and cave, too. We used to ice dive all the time, that was fun. I never cared much for cave diving, though, unless there were breathers you could actually get out into.