Anyone hard anything about Kimber?

In article <IZxjg.23058$EX2.21703@bignews5.bellsouth.net>, Lee Bell
<pleebell2@bellsouth.net> wrote:

€ "Star" wrote
€
€ > I rummage through my dive bag and manage to find a few cards, none of
€ > them my original C-card. I figure one of the tech instructor cards
€ > ought to do, trot them back into the office and present them the nice
€ > lady.
€ >
€ > "No, no, Dear," she said. "I can't use this kind of card. I need
€ > your C-CARD."
€
€ Now that right there's funny.
€
€ All of Jayna and my cards are in the credit card slots of a single wallet.
€ I scanned the front and back of every one of them and keep a copy in my dive
€ log, a copy in my dive tool kit (which lives in my dive bag), a copy in each
€ of the boats and, generally, a copy in my wallet when I'm traveling. Only
€ once have I been denied the ability to dive because I failed to be able to
€ prove I was certified, but once is enough.
€
€ Not too long ago, one of my friends from another forum, was down here and
€ left his cards at home. His wife scanned them and e-mailed them to me. I
€ printed them out for him, retaining a copy on my computer. Now, any time
€ he's anywhere in the world that he can access the internet, he can get a
€ copy from me very quickly. Perhaps there's an idea in there somewhere.
€
€ How many people would find it worth their while to send a scan file of their
€ certification cards to a couple people in this forum who would agree to
€ store the images and, when not too inconvenient, provide an e-mail copy on
€ request? I say a couple just to cover such things as vacation, etc. Sound
€ like a good idea to anyone?
€

I've been doing something similar for years. I have scanned copies of
my c-card and the first page of my passport on a secure website. I've
never had to use them, but they're there if I need them and can retrive
them instantly from any internet connected computer in the world.





€ Lee
€
€

"Popeye" <Popeye@Finalprotectivefire.com> wrote in message
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> "Alan Street" <agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com> wrote in message
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> > In article <IZxjg.23058$EX2.21703@bignews5.bellsouth.net>, Lee Bell
> > <pleebell2@bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> > I've been doing something similar for years. I have scanned copies of
> > my c-card and the first page of my passport on a secure website. I've
> > never had to use them, but they're there if I need them and can retrieve
> > them instantly from any internet connected computer in the world.
>
> I got Cards in three places, copies on the laptop, and the Canadian
> Connection.

LOL, do you really think I've kept that big ass file?

You damn near crashed my computer.

Lee Bell wrote:
> "Greg Mossman" wrote
>
> > I usually just show my "SSI Specialty Diver" card that lists the nitrox
> > specialty and that fact that I've completed at least 5 logged dives. My
> > DM and instructor cards don't indicate nitrox certification so they're
> > useless for most of the holiday diving I do.
>
> Interesting. I don't normally show my nitrox card unless I'm getting a fill
> and, even then, only if asked.

Most of the holiday diving I do is off boats that supply the tanks and
air. Since I mostly dive nitrox, I mostly show my nitrox card.

At home, I don't show any card on some boats.

Greg Mossman wrote:

> I would think it sensible not to show your DM or instructor card, unless
> you're trying to prove you might know what you're doing so the DM will leave
> you alone. You certainly wouldn't want to give anyone the idea that you're
> "volunteering" for any duty beyond taking care of yourself, leading to the
> situation where someone on the boat knowing you're an instructor might not
> realize you're off-duty and thereby expect you to save him. I usually just
> show my "SSI Specialty Diver" card that lists the nitrox specialty and that
> fact that I've completed at least 5 logged dives. My DM and instructor
> cards don't indicate nitrox certification so they're useless for most of the
> holiday diving I do.

I don't show anything unless asked - and that's not often. A shop here
did ask the first time I went in for nitrox. When I book a charter as
an instructor, I don't get asked at all. That's kinda scary. I can't
remember ever having to get a DM off my back. If they want to schlep
my stuff, bless 'em, they are certainly welcome to do so. Used to be I
was all huffy about not carrying my own stuff, but hey not any more.
You want a hernia from my doubles, you got it

So no, I don't show any card not needed to make the dives either -
unless its all I can find.

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"i'm much more than a princess but you don't have a name for it yet
here on earth."