Question #1:
was this gal fond of me?
I went into a local scuba gear shop interested in finding out about the equipment and whathaveyou and the girl who works the place was havin a chitchat with an older gentlemen about her skydiving trip, the guy leaves and then i ask for her about the many various types of stuff in the store. She gave me her full undivided attention, however what i noticed was as she talked to me she kept twirling her hair and smiling. she didnt do this for the old man that was in the store and im wondering if she was being slightly flirty about it or if maybe it was nervous habit? this is just out of pure curiousityok afte reading the responses, the girl was the only one in the store and i did make apparent to her i wasnt looking to buy anything due to budget restrictions. i was just browsing and the store is a privately owned one. im 21 and she looked to be a couple years my superior. not sure if that makes anything different
Question #2:
Should I buy my own scuba gear?
I am looking into buying an Oceanic scuba gear package for $1750. I have been a certified diver for two years now but haven't done as many dives as I would have liked to. This is mainly because of the extra expense of hiring scuba gear, it can change a $50 dive into a $100 dive! I am not sure whether to buy my own Equipment, or save my money (as i am still in school and have uni/car to pay for soon). I would really want my own gear and i have the money, but it is a lot of money. Should I get the gear? Or is there a cheaper quality package i can get locally in australia? Thanks.Question #3:
Where to buy my scuba equipment?
I recently got into scuba....I absolutely love it.Got my certification yesterday and am looking into buyin my own gear.
Ive been lectured TONS by the instructors at my dive shop about the dangers from buying gear online.
But the truth of the matter is, I cant afford the prices in the shop!
Is it really as bad as they say it is to buy from a site, say Click Here ?
Thanks tons!
ALSO!!
any recommendations on gear for a beginner is much welcomed!
thanks you!
Question #4:
Gear bag for scuba diving equipment?
Hi guys. I am looking for a gear bag for my scuba diving equipment. I am told duffles are great for storing gear. What’s a good size and any brands you can recommend?Thanks.
Question #5:
Why do conservatives criticize the President for his handling of the BP oil spill?
1.) You guys are the "limited government" crowd. Yet, you don't want the private sector (BP) handling this on their own. You want the President of the US to put on his scuba gear and bring his leak plugging equipment down to the bottom of the gulf.2.) You all seem to know exactly what the President is doing about the matter. I've read and heard some say that he's doing nothing, but concentrating on legal issues rather than solving the problem (ignoring the fact that the US navy and Coast Gaurd was sent out there in April to start conducting burnings). How do any of you even know what Obama is doing hour by hour in regards to the leak?
3.) What would you have done if Obama had not stopped off shore drilling and two more accidents occurred out at sea? Would you direct all of your criticism past the oil industry to the President for not plugging those leaks fast enough as you seem to be doing in the case of this leak?
To all of those who answer "b/c of Katrina", rest assure, even some of your conservative ilk are cringing at this answer. FEMA dropped the ball on Katrina due to Bush's inexperienced appointee. Many people died because of this. That's only one of the many reasons Katrina would be a bad analogy.
What's hilarious also are the conservatives who admit that this is a big enough issue for big brother to get involved in. The economy almost goes off the edge of a cliff, and you guys scream no bailout and no stimulus. Let the free markets fix all!
Healthcare costs are slowly bleeding the country broke, and you guys think that the solution should be a market solution, no government.
But an environmental disaster happens and you cry "Obama is failing us"!
Don't make me laugh.
Question #6:
Where can I find good deals on SCUBA gear and what should I be getting?
I just became SCUBA and Nitrox certified in the fall and am trying to find a way to get some of my own gear. Because I want to practice nautical archaeology for a career, I need to have all my own gear in order to volunteer at excavations, but being a college student, I can't exactly afford top of the line.Looking online, I've found a lot of "wetsuit packages" and that sort of thing that seem like they would be promising. But I'm not sure what IS a deal and what isn't-- or rather, what the typical prices for each piece of equipment should be.
I prefer a bladder BC like a backpack to the inflatable vests. If I have nothing but a mask, snorkel, fins, and booties, WHAT DO I NEED (not including air tanks) and what sorts of features should I be looking for on everything?
Question #7:
Which scuba diving certification is the best, PADI or SSI?
So, I'm doing scuba diving training this summer, and I was looking at different places where I can go to get certified, and there are two locations that I like....one is PADI and one is SSI. The SSI one is a lot cheaper, seeing that you do the classroom portion online and it's free to do it online (they still cover everything in the actual classroom when you go for you classes, but they just skim over it since you already know the info from the online course...so it'll be more like a refresher), and the PADI one is $199, and even still the company will make you do the classroom portion. With the PADI center, training is $420 or $250, depending on if you buy your scuba gear from them or not, and I think they charge a minimum of $330 for the equipment....the other one is like $200 ...and I can buy my scuba gear from wherever I want...but the true question...is it better to get PADI certified and pay more money, or is SSI and PADI certification the same? Like will other divers look down at me if I'm SSI or anything? thanks!I'm 16 btw....if that helps at all.
Question #8:
What is a good car/suv/truck for a scuba diver/musician.?
i need a vehicle that will be good for carrying scuba gear, music equipment i.e. guitars, guitar amps, pa's, drums. and also is somewhat rugged but stylish, masculine, safe, lots of space.station wagons are lame
Question #9:
scuba diving question: all i want to do is dive to shallow depths of up to 7 meters or so. so what is the?
cheapest/bare minumum equipment i will need? just need a little help in the right direction. its for abalonie hunting and a little investigative diving around the south east coast of victoria... thanks guys. i know i will have to do a diving course. i just want the bare essential model gear. lets do it... thanks heaps!!! :)Question #10:
FBI HRT VS CIA SAD - More elite?
Between these two elite civilian special forces units, which one is superior, in your opinion?Here's a little info about each:
FBI HRT:
HRT's purpose was, and still is, to serve as a domestic counter-terrorism unit, offering a tactical resolution option in hostage and high-risk law enforcement situations. It originally comprised 50 operators; however, this number has increased since to well over 90 full-time operators, but easily fewer than 500. The HRT commonly functions as a national SWAT team in highly sensitive or dangerous situations.
The HRT's equipment and tactics are more advanced than any of the FBI's 56 field office SWAT teams or the 14 "enhanced" SWAT teams. The HRT's capabilities are more advanced because its operators (assault and sniper teams) serve full time and train daily. HRT operators are assigned to one of three teams, one of which is a designated maritime team.
The HRT as a whole possesses enhanced capabilities in the maritime domain, including advanced “breaching” capabilities (the ability to circumvent locked doors aboard a ship), ship-boarding capabilities, and the ability to board and operate on oil platforms. The HRT has three boats outfitted for maritime assaults, most of which have been upgraded since 2004.[1]
The HRT also has a maritime team, which has additional maritime capabilities including subsurface diving, closed-circuit diving (scuba gear that does not emit bubbles), and combat swimming. All operators on the maritime team are military trained in closed-circuit diving and combat swimming. In addition, the maritime team assault element has an operator who is qualified to pilot and operate a freighter.
The HRT operates a Tactical Aviation Unit, which is staffed by FBI special agents. The Tactical Helicopter Unit, a subunit of the aviation unit, contains a variety of helicopters specially modified for the HRT's use. These helicopters include eight military converted UH-60 Black Hawk tactical transport helicopters and several McDonnell Douglas 530 Little Bird light helicopters. Unlike the military, whose aircraft are not always in the same location as the tactical operators, the HRT’s Tactical Helicopter Unit is literally right out the front door on a low hilltop. All the HRT's Tactical Aviators fly daily
The two chief roles of the HRT are:
* Hostage rescue
* Domestic and foreign counter-terrorism
Secondary roles of the HRT are:
* Apprehending barricaded subjects
* Helicopter operations
* High-risk raids, searches, arrests, and warrants
* Mobile assaults
* Manhunt and rural operations
* Force protection for FBI personnel overseas
To a lesser extent the HRT may also deploy teams or individual operators to act as snipers or to provide protective service details to certain high-profile federal witnesses or dignitaries. Also, the teams of the HRT cycle out and provide support to missions overseas, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, supporting Joint Terrorism Task Forces and performing typical law enforcement activities such as making arrests, processing scenes for evidence recovery, and testifying in court, at home and abroad.
The HRT has performed traditional law enforcement roles during hurricane relief operations, tactical surveys, and, on occasion, pre-positions in support of special events such as the Olympic Games, presidential inaugurations, and political conventions.
After a four-month initial training period known as "New Operator Training School" or "NOTS", they are headquartered at the FBI Academy, Quantico. Experienced HRT operators assigned to observer/sniper teams are sent to the Marine Corps Scout Sniper Basic Course, and, after successfully completing the course, they receive further instruction by HRT snipers
The HRT is known to conduct joint training exercises and participate in exchange programs with US military units such as the US Army's Combat Applications Group (otherwise known as 1st SFOD-D Delta Force) or the U.S. Navy's DEVGRU. Also the HRT routinely trains with other federal tactical teams such as the United States Border Patrol's BORTAC unit or the United States Capitol Police's CERT. Occasionally, the HRT trains with France's GIGN, Britain's SAS and Special Boat Service, Australian SAS, Germany's GSG 9, and other international units. In addition to the HRT's own facilities, the HRT routinely uses private and 1st SFOD-D Delta Force shoot houses and ranges. The HRT has also been known to train at Camp Peary and Harvey Point
After an official FBI "request for proposal" in 1997 the HRT demanded their duty pistol meet some grueling standards. Eight companies responded. Each company submitted five pistols for testing. While all of the FBI's requirements were demanding, the most rigorous was accuracy. Chosen at random, two of the five guns had to shoot no more than 1.5
Question #11:
Why do Americans speak English? Were they secretly conquered and made to feel free by a British double agent?
Scientists in America like Tim Berners-Lee of the United States National Academy of Sciences, based in Washington, D.C. born in London Invented the Web.NASA astronauts Michael Foale, Piers Sellers and Nicholas Patrick were British born. Michael Foale has joint nationality but Piers Sellers and Nicholas Patrick had to become American citizens to fly into space. Space tourist Richard Garriott is a US citizen though he was born in the UK.
During the 2008 ESA astronaut selection, over 800 applicants (10% and the 4th largest of the ESA total) were from the UK.
British Inventions:
Anemometer - Robert Hooke
Disc Brakes - Frederick William Lanchester
Tin Can - Peter Durand
Cat Eyes - Percy Shaw
Portland Cement - Joseph Aspdin Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel
Corkscrews - H.S. Heeley
Crossword Puzzles - Arthur Wynne
DNA - Alec Jeffreys
Depth Charges
Diving Equipment/Scuba Gear - John Smeaton, William James, Henry Fleuss
EKG (Underlying Principles) - Various
Electric Motor - Michael Faraday
Electromagnet - William Sturgeon
Fax Machine - Alexander Bain
Gas Mask -John Tyndall and others
Dew-point Hygrometer - John Frederic Daniell
Holography - Dennis Gábor
Internal Combustion Engine - Samuel Brown
Jet Engines - Sir Frank Whittle
Kelvin Scale - Lord William Thomson Kelvin
Metal Lathe - Henry Maudslay invented the first in 1797.
Lawn Mower - Edwin Beard Budding
Lightbulbs - Humphry Davy, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, James Bowman Lindsay Locomotive - Richard Trevithick
Power Loom - Edmund Cartwright
Little Nipper Mousetrap - James Henry Atkinson
Penicillin - Alexander Fleming
Penny Farthing - James Starley
Periodic Table - John Newlands
Periscope - Sir Howard Grubb
Polyester - John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson
Puckle Gun - John Puckle
Radar Locating of Aircraft - Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
Radio (Underlying Principles) - James Clerk Maxwell
Rubber Bands - Stephen Perry
Rubber Masticator - Thomas Hancock
Seed Drill - Jethro Tull
Seismometer - James Forbes
Seismograph - John Milne, Sir James Alfred Ewing, Thomas Gray
Sewing Machines - Thomas Saint
Shrapnel - Henry Shrapnel
Steam Engine - Thomas Savery, Thomas Newcomen, James Watt
Steel Production - Sir Henry Bessemer
Submarine - William Bourne,
Spinning Jenny - James Hargreaves
Spinning Frame - Richard Arkwright
Spinning Mule - Samuel Crompton
Television - John Logie Baird
Thermos - Sir James Dewar
Toilet Paper - British Perforated Paper Company
Torpedo - Robert Whitehead 1866
Train - invented in 1822 by an English inventor named George Stephenson.
Umbrella (steel-ribbed) - Samuel Fox
Universal Joint - Robert Hooke (also Iris Diaphragm, Balance Spring)
Vacuum Cleaner - Hubert Cecil Booth
Viagra - Peter Dunn, Albert Wood, Dr Nicholas Terrett
Wacky Inventions - Arthur Paul Pedrick
Waterproof Fabric - Charles Macintosh
World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee
Come on Yanks, who's the Daddy really?
Question #12:
Why do American speak English? Were they secretly conquered and made to feel free by a British double agent?
Scientists in America like Tim Berners-Lee of the United States National Academy of Sciences, based in Washington, D.C. born in London Invented the Web.NASA astronauts Michael Foale, Piers Sellers and Nicholas Patrick were British born. Michael Foale has joint nationality but Piers Sellers and Nicholas Patrick had to become American citizens to fly into space. Space tourist Richard Garriott is a US citizen though he was born in the UK.
During the 2008 ESA astronaut selection, over 800 applicants (10% and the 4th largest of the ESA total) were from the UK.
British Inventions:
Anemometer - Robert Hooke
Disc Brakes - Frederick William Lanchester
Tin Can - Peter Durand
Cat Eyes - Percy Shaw
Portland Cement - Joseph Aspdin Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel
Corkscrews - H.S. Heeley
Crossword Puzzles - Arthur Wynne
DNA - Alec Jeffreys
Depth Charges
Diving Equipment/Scuba Gear - John Smeaton, William James, Henry Fleuss
EKG (Underlying Principles) - Various
Electric Motor - Michael Faraday
Electromagnet - William Sturgeon
Fax Machine - Alexander Bain
Gas Mask -John Tyndall and others
Dew-point Hygrometer - John Frederic Daniell
Holography - Dennis Gábor
Internal Combustion Engine - Samuel Brown
Jet Engines - Sir Frank Whittle
Kelvin Scale - Lord William Thomson Kelvin
Metal Lathe - Henry Maudslay invented the first in 1797.
Lawn Mower - Edwin Beard Budding
Lightbulbs - Humphry Davy, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, James Bowman Lindsay Locomotive - Richard Trevithick
Power Loom - Edmund Cartwright
Little Nipper Mousetrap - James Henry Atkinson
Penicillin - Alexander Fleming
Penny Farthing - James Starley
Periodic Table - John Newlands
Periscope - Sir Howard Grubb
Polyester - John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson
Puckle Gun - John Puckle
Radar Locating of Aircraft - Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
Radio (Underlying Principles) - James Clerk Maxwell
Rubber Bands - Stephen Perry
Rubber Masticator - Thomas Hancock
Seed Drill - Jethro Tull
Seismometer - James Forbes
Seismograph - John Milne, Sir James Alfred Ewing, Thomas Gray
Sewing Machines - Thomas Saint
Shrapnel - Henry Shrapnel
Steam Engine - Thomas Savery, Thomas Newcomen, James Watt
Steel Production - Sir Henry Bessemer
Submarine - William Bourne,
Spinning Jenny - James Hargreaves
Spinning Frame - Richard Arkwright
Spinning Mule - Samuel Crompton
Television - John Logie Baird
Thermos - Sir James Dewar
Toilet Paper - British Perforated Paper Company
Torpedo - Robert Whitehead 1866
Umbrella (steel-ribbed) - Samuel Fox
Universal Joint - Robert Hooke (also Iris Diaphragm, Balance Spring)
Vacuum Cleaner - Hubert Cecil Booth
Viagra - Peter Dunn, Albert Wood, Dr Nicholas Terrett
Wacky Inventions - Arthur Paul Pedrick
Waterproof Fabric - Charles Macintosh
World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee
Come on Yanks, who's the Daddy really?
Question #13:
Purchasing Scuba Equipment?
I am finally learning to dive and plan on going into a career where I would be diving frequently. So my main question is are certain brands better than others? I will be starting off with mask, fins, and snorkel which I need for my class soon. I see this big selection but what are really the main differences between the basic gear? Then just buying the bigger pieces such as the wetsuit, regulator, computer and regulator one by one after that. I will most likely be diving in FL or similar waters so what type/thickness of wet suit is best? There is only one dive shop near me and naturally they want me to buy their equipment so I am just looking for some non-biased advice!Question #14:
what are some websites that sell scubadiving equipment in sweden and europe?
i am going to buy some scubadiving equipment for the summer but i cant find a website that sells scuba gear in europe. help me please! Also i am going to be doing wreck diving so any good wing jacket products or diving computer products would be a big help thanks.Question #15:
how deep can a human dive with only scuba gear on?
no advanced equipment or anythingQuestion #16:
how much does it cost to get a scuba diving license and buy all the equipment necessary for scuba diving?
hey guys, i'm really interested in becoming a scuba diver.so how much does getting certified cost?
and if i wanted to buy the scuba gear how much would that cost?
Question #17:
How expensive is Scuba Diving?
I was thinking of taking scuba lessons and then buying my own gear since I recently got a job at an airport and I'll be able to fly to many gorgeous locations for free. I thought diving would be my perfect hobby and see how many locations i can get to in a year. But Im not exactly sure how it works. Do I need to pay to dive somewhere even if i have my own equipment? How much is equipment to begin with? I guess im just looking for a price on equipment in total for nowQuestion #18:
if you want scuba lessons do you have to buy the gear to?
i want to scuba dive do i need to pay for the lessons and for all the equipment as well as the lessons or do i get to borrow equipmentQuestion #19:
What SCUBA gear to buy?
I am buying equipment for the first time and I am not sure which items are better to buy compared to others. For BC vests I am pretty sure I would like to buy the pearl model by aqualung but I don't know what the pros and cons for the i3 would be, I have never used that system before. For regulators I am looking at the Mikron and the titan LX supreme. For dive computers I am looking at Gekko and Vyper, also I do not know whats better a 2 gauge unit or a wrist mounted one. Any input or information about personal experience with one of these products would be a great help since I am new at this. Thanks!!!Question #20:
Diving Down Deep . . . . . . .?
One day, a diver was enjoying the aquatic world 20 feet below sea level.He noticed a guy at the same depth he was, with no scuba gear on whatsoever.
The diver went below another 10 feet, but the guy joined him a minute later.
The diver went below 15 more feet, and a minute later, the same guy joined him.
This confused the diver, so he took out a waterproof pad and pencil, and wrote, Amazing!
How are you able to stay this deep down without equipment?
The guy took the pencil and pad, erased what the diver had written, and wrote:
I’m drowning, you moron!
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