padeen wrote:
I have a Hans Christian 38T I want to dive from. Anyone know the options
for getting back aboard w/ full scuba? Any "plan B" suggestions?
Thanks,
Brad
s/v Aldonza


Hi:
Do you have a topside tender?

If not..................... remove all gear and put in a bag/net/brail.
Crawl out of water on to boat.
Pull in the sport scuba stuff.
Got a tender? If so, thats his problem. Your a diver not a tender!
Bob
DIT 107/80

I agree with Bob, been there-done that, got the t-shirt! Sounds like Bob is
or was a Navy Diver.
I use a line with a snap hook, like a fish stringer: ditch my weights (toss
on the boat first), then string tank, bc, mask, and fins last. All while
maintaining contact with the boat, of course.
MMC
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padeen wrote:
I have a Hans Christian 38T I want to dive from. Anyone know the
options
for getting back aboard w/ full scuba? Any "plan B" suggestions?
Thanks,
Brad
s/v Aldonza


Hi:
Do you have a topside tender?

If not..................... remove all gear and put in a bag/net/brail.
Crawl out of water on to boat.
Pull in the sport scuba stuff.
Got a tender? If so, thats his problem. Your a diver not a tender!
Bob
DIT 107/80

MMC wrote:
I agree with Bob, been there-done that, got the t-shirt! Sounds like Bob is
or was a Navy Diver.

Hi MMC:

Close.......... I went to a trade school in Ballard WA 1980. All the
instructors were ex Navy salvage guys with a couple SEALS doing the
Mark V indoc dives and open circuit scuba.
Later I went to the GOM to seak my fortune in the offshore oil field.

Interestingly enough I may head down there again next
year................. But certainly not as a knight of the deep. A bit
too much water under the bridge for that.
Shallow Water Bob
Ex mud duck

Mark V? So it's been a couple years? I got Mark V training in '82. I think
we were the last class.
MMC
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MMC wrote:
I agree with Bob, been there-done that, got the t-shirt! Sounds like Bob
is
or was a Navy Diver.

Hi MMC:

Close.......... I went to a trade school in Ballard WA 1980. All the
instructors were ex Navy salvage guys with a couple SEALS doing the
Mark V indoc dives and open circuit scuba.
Later I went to the GOM to seak my fortune in the offshore oil field.

Interestingly enough I may head down there again next
year................. But certainly not as a knight of the deep. A bit
too much water under the bridge for that.
Shallow Water Bob
Ex mud duck

MMC wrote:
Mark V? So it's been a couple years? I got Mark V training in '82. I think
we were the last class.
MMC


Hi MMC:

Were you in the Navy, go to Divers Institute of Technology or another
civilian dive schools?

For me I was in class 107/80 at DIT. I can still hear that over
enthusiastic ex SEAL yelling "sit up straight .......... you make the
suit look bad!"

Humm.... No more Mark V orientation? That's too bad. At the time I
was at DIT, 1980, I think there were only 1-2 other civilian schools
that had their students experience it... So goes the dinosaurs. There
was a guy I found on another group who had actually dove the HeO2
version of the Mark V while in the Navy. Now that must have been a
monster of a suit.

Positive buoyant Bob

Positive buoyant Bob

Lucky sod. I sink, unless I take an exceptionally deep breath!

Still learning . . .

Which university?
--
JimB
http://www.jimbaerselman.f2s.com/
Describing some Greek and Spanish cruising areas

News f2s wrote:
Positive buoyant Bob

Lucky sod. I sink, unless I take an exceptionally deep breath!

Hi Jim:

In my younger days I too would sinik like a rock. Thats why I got
interested in under water breathing systems. I though if I was going to
end up on the bottom of the pool I should at least have a way to
breath.

I do not have that problem now. In fact, my desity, or I should say
lack, is beginging to be a problem. Although the extra fat has extended
my cold water exposure time dramatically.

Count your blesings if you sink. I'm told you'll live longer!
Bob


Still learning . . .

Which university?

Small regional 4 year liberal arts. College of A&S.
And you?


--
JimB
http://www.jimbaerselman.f2s.com/
Describing some Greek and Spanish cruising areas

I was Navy. Don't know if the commercial schools continued use of the Mk 5
after we put them in mothballs.
Navy Diving was generally behind the commercial world when it came to gear,
I believe you commercial guys were using the Superlight when we came out
with the Mk 12, which was a real overpriced POS.
Navy just went to the Superlight in the last few years.
I dove the Superlight for a while as a commercial diver after I got out and
think it's the best thing going.
MMC
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MMC wrote:
Mark V? So it's been a couple years? I got Mark V training in '82. I
think
we were the last class.
MMC


Hi MMC:

Were you in the Navy, go to Divers Institute of Technology or another
civilian dive schools?

For me I was in class 107/80 at DIT. I can still hear that over
enthusiastic ex SEAL yelling "sit up straight .......... you make the
suit look bad!"

Humm.... No more Mark V orientation? That's too bad. At the time I
was at DIT, 1980, I think there were only 1-2 other civilian schools
that had their students experience it... So goes the dinosaurs. There
was a guy I found on another group who had actually dove the HeO2
version of the Mark V while in the Navy. Now that must have been a
monster of a suit.

Positive buoyant Bob

MMC wrote:
I was Navy.

A real diver................ !

Don't know if the commercial schools continued use of the Mk 5
after we put them in mothballs.

The school I went to was using them through out the 1980s Sort of a
"right of passage."
NOdoubt you saw the movie "Men of Honor." I think the Mark V stuff was
loaned from the
DIT school in Seattle. I suspect the civilian schools still use them.

Navy Diving was generally behind the commercial world when it came to gear,
I believe you commercial guys were using the Superlight when we came out
with the Mk 12, which was a real overpriced POS.

Ya, but it sure looked cool. That alone was worth the extrat $1000.

Navy just went to the Superlight in the last few years.
I dove the Superlight for a while as a commercial diver after I got out and
think it's the best thing going.

Personally I really enjoyed some of the old fiberglass air hats for
brownwater stuff.
Finally was able to get my hands on an old MIiler. I enjoyed that till
I went back home to Oregon to lick my wounds.

Who did you work for?
I ended up in Morgan City, LA with an outfit called Ocean Tec. Their
shop was a couple blocks from Oceaneering's in Patterson, LA. Most
the guys from my school went with a company called International
Oilfield Divers. They (IOD) were a real low bid operation. Lots of
horror stories from those guys.
Still Bobing