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the_cole
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1d ago
PSA: If you're still doing your pre-dive checks from memory, you're gonna have a bad day
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julia_carter70
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1d ago
Pro tip: spend the 20 minutes checking your umbilical before the dive, not 3 hours untangling it after
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hart.mark
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3d ago
Vent: found out surface-supplied divers in the Gulf get a 3 hour bottom time window before decompression gets nasty
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dianas50
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3d ago
Sat next to a dive ops guy at the bar in Morgan City who said he would not send a tender down without a knife, and now I can not stop thinking about it
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evanc92
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5d ago
Spent 6 years wiping my mask with spit in the hatch before every dive
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david_rivera4
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8d ago
Showerthought: my worst day on the job, 90 feet down in the Mississippi with a silt out so bad I couldnt see my own glove
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luna891
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8d ago
Hit 500 commercial dives last month and the number that actually got me was $61
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ben662
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9d ago
A tender on the Sabine River bet me $100 my bailout bottle would fail inspection, and he was dead right
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hugo_bennett
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9d ago
Warning: a sat diver in Galveston asked me why I still check my own gas by hand, and I couldn't give him a good answer
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simonl11
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10d ago
Tried switching to a full face mask on a 60 foot river job in Vicksburg and it cost me a whole day
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ben206
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11d ago
I tried a dry suit for the first time on a 40 foot job in Galveston and hated it
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paulschmidt
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12d ago
Bought a $180 dive light in Morgan City, got 2 weeks out of it before the switch flooded
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margareth48
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12d ago
The band mask was the size of a dinner plate when I started in 1999
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xena_brown50
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14d ago
Took a $28/hr gig in 60 feet of murky water over a $45/hr tank job, and I'd do it again
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norah13
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14d ago
My dive knife cost $12 in 1998, now it's $130 for the same thing
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