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a video on a tragic cave diving excursion by 2 amatuer although very experienced,
technical divers.... ..... ....the video shows the dangers of overconfidence - lack of
planning and preparation........ but it also reveals what actually kills most divers
regardless of the environment they are diving in... when something goes wrong...
..... panic... ... . it;s not the emergency that kills most divers who don;t survive a dive..
... it;s the reaction they have to the emergency... . failure to remain calm no matter what
the danger is, causes heart rates and breathing rates to increase - which then uses up
available air too fast.... plus panic also causes poor and often fatal decisions to be made... ..

panic is the reason i have never been able to go underwater using a scuba tank and regulator...
though i have tried many times over many years.... but for me the panic starts the moment i
attempt to go under so it;s easy to get back above water and out of danger... .. but when panic
happens at 500 feet below the surface it;s another story...


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aleshanee said:
a video on a tragic cave diving excursion by 2 amatuer although very experienced,
technical divers.... ..... ....the video shows the dangers of overconfidence - lack of
planning and preparation........ but it also reveals what actually kills most divers
regardless of the environment they are diving in... when something goes wrong...
..... panic... ... . it;s not the emergency that kills most divers who don;t survive a dive..
... it;s the reaction they have to the emergency... . failure to remain calm no matter what
the danger is, causes heart rates and breathing rates to increase - which then uses up
available air too fast.... plus panic also causes poor and often fatal decisions to be made... ..

panic is the reason i have never been able to go underwater using a scuba tank and regulator...
though i have tried many times over many years.... but for me the panic starts the moment i
attempt to go under so it;s easy to get back above water and out of danger... .. but when panic
happens at 500 feet below the surface it;s another story...


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Um. No. After that description, I can already feel the anxiety. If I watch the video, I guarantee I'll have nightmares and wake up at 2 am in a cold sweat. I am a total WUSS with stuff like this.
 
abcaines said:
Um. No. After that description, I can already feel the anxiety. If I watch the video, I guarantee I'll have nightmares and wake up at 2 am in a cold sweat. I am a total WUSS with stuff like this.
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i didn;t fully understand all that back when i was a teenager and was helping out on the dive barge when my dad was going down on deep salvage and underwater work... ... i think i would have been freaked out if i had known just how dangerous some of it was.... i started studying dive science and physiology after pre-med didn;t work out - along with many other independent courses - as part of a plan to try to get back into the program focusing on emergency medicine . ...plus i also started working hard to overcome my own panic problems when donning a scuba tank and regulator and attempting to submerge..... ..

i was already a member of the fff back then and it was a only few years before my dad retired from commercial diving... ... he continued and still does go out with them to help set up and supervise some of the diving jobs... and when he does i usually go with him... ...it;s good spending money.....

but in the process of trying to keep trying with the dive and panic thing.... and since i was also in weekly counselling i learned what the source of my panic problem was... ... and also learned it was not something i was likely to overcome... so i just contented myself with snorkel and freediving - which i can do without any problems spearfishing... ...just as long as no mechanical regulator is involved....

what the video doesn;t say but which i gathered from it clearly is how modern technology and new devices/inventions has enabled people to go into diving who never would have qualified for it back in the old days.... the days of first generaton equipment that didn;t do all the work for a diver such as bouancy control etc.. but which required strict discipline and conditioning to use.. ........ most of the people taking to the water in dive gear now days... like the guys in video... are amatuer divers.... having some training - but not to the extent that a fully certified professional commercial diver has
 
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i love these animagraf type videos.... .. ....and to me this one on a world war 2
submarine in fascinating... ..the uss bowfin - a balao class submarine that served
in ww2 - is anchored at pearl harbor as a museum ship... it;s exactly like the one
shown in the video... .. and i have gone through it dozens of times over the years
.. .. i never get tired of it..... even though i probably would have been horrifed to
be on one that was in service and actually going underwater...... ⚓


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abcaines said:
Um. No. After that description, I can already feel the anxiety. If I watch the video, I guarantee I'll have nightmares and wake up at 2 am in a cold sweat. I am a total WUSS with stuff like this.
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I dreamed I was on the Titanic, sinking, and just as I went underwater, I gasped and woke up!
 
i can make it down as far as 30 feet on a simple down and bounce back up free dive....
and in the process even spear and bring back up, something i saw from the surface and
focused on.... . . but if i purposefully hyperventilate before i go under.... (something i do
not like to do)... i can stay down long enough to look around for something i saw but lost
sight of... .only on the bottom a few seconds at best though..... .....

but i always wanted to master the skill of scuba so i could get down even further... actually dive
with my dad into some of the places he ventured into on not so deep dives.... (non saturated
no decompression dives)..... even go into the open blue water spaces that approach the darkness
of the seriously deep... ....i have always wanted to see what it was like - if only just once.... ..but
first i have to conquer the fear of that regulator... .maybe some day - if i decide to start trying it again....
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in his commercial diving career he went down into places very few divers ever go.... saturation dives into deep and dark environments
requiring lengthy decompression in a hyperbaric chamber.... ..some of his current medical problems might have actually been caused
by that.. but he says he would do it all over again without a second thought....

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he has always said if he had his way.. .when he dies he would be buried at sea in an old mark 5 dive suit.... just weighted down and dropped over board in waters a thousand fathoms deep or more..... ..... not likely to happen... but he says that;s where he belongs... with all the other relics of davey jones locker......
 
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IFBXFiles is on fire for his exemplary work over in Battle Stations. I have noticed an orange hue (slightly like Biden's) amalgamated in with his green complexion.
 
The Pope and Hillary Clinton are on the same stage at the Yankee Stadium in front of a giant crowd. The Pope leans towards Hilary and says, "Do you know with one wave of my hand I can make this entire crowd go wild with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display, but will go deep into their hearts and they'll forever speak of this day and rejoice!" Hillary said, "I seriously doubt that. With one little wave of your hand? Show me!" So, the Pope backhanded her off the stage. The crowd roared and cheered wildly and there was happiness throughout the land….😁
 
Q: What do you call a woman who marries a hippy?








Think ya know?










Well, do ya?












Ready?












Mississippi.


(Mrs. Hippy)
 
Mrs. abcaines and I are in Arkansas again. Last night as we were at supper, I remembered an old story about a famous Arkansas resident....

While Bill Clinton was president, he paid a visit to his home state of Arkansas and while he was there, bought a little razorback piglet. As he was returning to the White House, he was carrying it in his arms. As he was stepping off of the presidential helicopter on the South Lawn, the Marine guard rendered a salute. Bill showed the piglet to the guard and said, "What do you think? I got this for Hillary!"

Thr Marine replied, "That was a good trade, sir!"
 
aleshanee said:
i disagree..... i think her ad-libbing and the way she culturally appropriated and adjusted the tempo - tone.. and notes in the national anthem completely disrespected it ....she basically ruined it.... and she;s not alone in that regard... .. country music singers and now pretty much everybody who gets a chance to solo the national anthem does the same thing.... .. they have all fallen to a fetish trying to see if they can out "jazz" each other "singing" ..or ..in some cases - screaming the national anthem - a song that is supposed to be a sacred hymn for americans.... .

though it;s a rare thing to hear now days - i greatly value a singer who can sing the national anthem straight and without personal ad-libs yet still deliver a solid and inspiring performance..... ...i know i am in the minority on that one.... .. but that;s ok... . i;m use to it.....
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This is what you get when you try to add some "DEI" to the thread.
 
aleshanee said:
i disagree..... i think her ad-libbing and the way she culturally appropriated and adjusted the tempo - tone.. and notes in the national anthem completely disrespected it ....she basically ruined it.... and she;s not alone in that regard... .. country music singers and now pretty much everybody who gets a chance to solo the national anthem does the same thing.... .. they have all fallen to a fetish trying to see if they can out "jazz" each other "singing" ..or ..in some cases - screaming the national anthem - a song that is supposed to be a sacred hymn for americans.... .

though it;s a rare thing to hear now days - i greatly value a singer who can sing the national anthem straight and without personal ad-libs yet still deliver a solid and inspiring performance..... ...i know i am in the minority on that one.... .. but that;s ok... . i;m use to it.....
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Do you like Meat Loaf's rendition in my former post?
 
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