RANDOM CHAT THREAD - Chat about anything or just hang out - ALL are welcome.

WannaDig3687 · Jun 20, 2018

Hello RCT! I managed a Wifi connection, but it is going to cost me. So I will catch up later. But I had to share the Presentation of the Colors to you and then I am going to post it up in My Daily Snapshots. This was so awesome and moving! And afterwards, one of the DNR Color Guards came up and asked me to forward the photos to him so they could post them. He also thanked me for taking the pics. Very humbling experience.

ARC · Jun 21, 2018

Morning... sheesh thread was slow last night.

RTR · Jun 21, 2018

bill from lachine said:
RTR,

But...but...but...what was I going to say oh yeah keep it mind the set up is in a floating device on the surface and the diver(you) are just using the oxygen feed hose so the weight is not an issue.

Regards + HH

Bill

I know it floats.But in order for it to float, you got to get it to the water first (1 to 3 hundred yards ) to the water :icon_scratch:

ARC · Jun 21, 2018

RTR said:
I know it floats.But in order for it to float, you got to get it to the water first (1 to 3 hundred yards ) to the water

You have to improvise.

cart / buggy / dolly / etc.

ARC · Jun 21, 2018

Here is what I have... for rolling all gear at once to anywhere.

Blak bart · Jun 21, 2018

Probably the most reliable and most widely used hooka system on the market. Used by commercial divers of all sorts, ive spent countless hours under water with this system. Cleaning boat bottoms, commercial lobster diving, comercial shell diving, treasure hunting, and even spearfishing ....etc.etc.etc !! I love it so much I had an electric model installed in our new boat. It runs off our generator, and has a quick disconnect in the transom next to the transom door. I have spent 8 hours under the water with this system getting lobsters. Virtually every commercial diver uses this system or one just like it to fish lobster in the Bahamas. It cant do everything but I use it most of the time. Gearing up with scuba takes so much time that it actually cuts into bottom time when lobster diving. Tank diving for me has become mission specific, when the mission calls for tanks and they are the better choice,of course we use them. Bronze canon corp and many other divers have modified there boats with large hose reels to hold many feet of hose. I often use the float in shallow water towing the whole rig behind while I dive. There are some extreme dangers using this equipmet too, it is not fool proof !! Breathing exhaust gas from the engine or any other engines can kill !! Up and down diving beyond 30 feet all day long has its consequences !! I myself prefer this system and have 2 complete systems, and a third that a friend has that he wants to give me because he dosent use it any more. I have poked a hole in the float and swamped the whole rig while underwater. Its no fun when the compressor dies and your down !! If you run out of gas it quits. I carry a spare air if I go deep with this rig. I could go on and on with the pros and cons, suffice to say that it is one of the most reliable and popular rigs on the market

Blak bart · Jun 21, 2018

Lugging tanks, regs, bc, dive led, fins etc..etc is just as much work !!

ARC · Jun 21, 2018

BB... that looks like my rig.

ARC · Jun 21, 2018

285x ? XE ?

ARC · Jun 21, 2018

Blak bart · Jun 21, 2018

You will carry tanks from the car to the fill station and back to the car, then from the car to the boat and the from the boat back to the car. You will move these tanks back and forth from the dive shop to the point of insanity !! I often will set this rig up on the boat and leave it for weeks on the boat fueled and ready to go at a moments notice. Im a minimalist ad often gear up wtith little more than mask, snorkel, fins, weight belt, and hooka hose. I have to have someone help me into and out of scuba gear. Im gone over the side in minutes with the hooka rig. I hve gone down and cleaned out lobster holes and got back to the boat before others have even gotten there scuba gear on. Lol.!! Ill throw the lobsters in the boat and watch them start to get out of there gear with out even getting wet. The job is done before they have geared up and double checked everything.