non certified divers

"longshot" <hoosier-longshot@aol.com> wrote in message
news:2h3t16F8qeesU1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> I am newly certified,
>
> I want to get my teen son interested, I am talking about local fresh water
> dives like maybe 20 feet.
> I figured most everyone has probably taken someone out on occasion.. am I
> wrong?

You're probably wrong on at least two levels:
1. Most certified divers don't take non certified divers under water with
compressed gas.
2. You, personally, are not ready to take on such responsibility.

Lee

"longshot" <hoosier-longshot@aol.com> wrote in message
news:2h3t16F8qeesU1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> I am newly certified,
>
> I want to get my teen son interested, I am talking about local fresh water
> dives like maybe 20 feet.
> I figured most everyone has probably taken someone out on occasion.. am I
> wrong?

You're probably wrong on at least two levels:
1. Most certified divers don't take non certified divers under water with
compressed gas.
2. You, personally, are not ready to take on such responsibility.

Lee

"longshot" <hoosier-longshot@aol.com> wrote in message
news:2h3t16F8qeesU1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> I am newly certified,
>
> I want to get my teen son interested, I am talking about local fresh water
> dives like maybe 20 feet.
> I figured most everyone has probably taken someone out on occasion.. am I
> wrong?

You're probably wrong on at least two levels:
1. Most certified divers don't take non certified divers under water with
compressed gas.
2. You, personally, are not ready to take on such responsibility.

Lee

"longshot" <hoosier-longshot@aol.com> wrote in message
news:2h3t16F8qeesU1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> I am newly certified,
>
> I want to get my teen son interested, I am talking about local fresh water
> dives like maybe 20 feet.
> I figured most everyone has probably taken someone out on occasion.. am I
> wrong?

You're probably wrong on at least two levels:
1. Most certified divers don't take non certified divers under water with
compressed gas.
2. You, personally, are not ready to take on such responsibility.

Lee

"longshot" <hoosier-longshot@aol.com> wrote in message
news:2h3t16F8qeesU1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> I am newly certified,
>
> I want to get my teen son interested, I am talking about local fresh water
> dives like maybe 20 feet.
> I figured most everyone has probably taken someone out on occasion.. am I
> wrong?

You're probably wrong on at least two levels:
1. Most certified divers don't take non certified divers under water with
compressed gas.
2. You, personally, are not ready to take on such responsibility.

Lee

"longshot" <hoosier-longshot@aol.com> wrote in message
news:2h3t16F8qeesU1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> I am newly certified,
>
> I want to get my teen son interested, I am talking about local fresh water
> dives like maybe 20 feet.
> I figured most everyone has probably taken someone out on occasion.. am I
> wrong?

You're probably wrong on at least two levels:
1. Most certified divers don't take non certified divers under water with
compressed gas.
2. You, personally, are not ready to take on such responsibility.

Lee

"longshot" <hoosier-longshot@aol.com> wrote in message
news:2h3t16F8qeesU1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> I am newly certified,
>
> I want to get my teen son interested, I am talking about local fresh water
> dives like maybe 20 feet.
> I figured most everyone has probably taken someone out on occasion.. am I
> wrong?

You're probably wrong on at least two levels:
1. Most certified divers don't take non certified divers under water with
compressed gas.
2. You, personally, are not ready to take on such responsibility.

Lee

"longshot" <hoosier-longshot@aol.com> wrote in message
news:2h3t16F8qeesU1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> I am newly certified,
>
> I want to get my teen son interested, I am talking about local fresh water
> dives like maybe 20 feet.
> I figured most everyone has probably taken someone out on occasion.. am I
> wrong?

You're probably wrong on at least two levels:
1. Most certified divers don't take non certified divers under water with
compressed gas.
2. You, personally, are not ready to take on such responsibility.

Lee

"longshot" <hoosier-longshot@aol.com> wrote in message
news:2h3vstF8o7h5U1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> > The majority of embolisms occur 33' to the surface. The last atmosphere
> > is the largest change in pressure and potentially the most dangerous.
> > Did you sleep during that part?
> >
>
> there are plenty of highly trained morons in this great world that would
be
> no match for an untrained person with plenty of common sense.

If I throw you in a swimming pool, or just shove your head under water, you
will hold your breath. It is instinctive, babies will do it.
Please explain the "common sense" in NOT HOLDING YOUR BREATH if you loose
your regulator at 20 feet and must ascend to the surface.
Ask the parents of the kids who jumped into the 8 foot pool with hose and
bucket over their head and when the air in the bucket got foul, held their
breath and swam up.

"Common sense" tells me that since "the idea is to get to the bottom" I put
enough weight on to sink.
The quote comes from a long funny story about a couple who said - and did
just that. It is funny because both survived, only because there was
somebody there to help them.

"Common sense" does not tell you to drop your weights in an emergency.

A highly trained moron would do as trained, your untrained person with
plenty of "common sense" would not.

"longshot" <hoosier-longshot@aol.com> wrote in message
news:2h3vstF8o7h5U1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> > The majority of embolisms occur 33' to the surface. The last atmosphere
> > is the largest change in pressure and potentially the most dangerous.
> > Did you sleep during that part?
> >
>
> there are plenty of highly trained morons in this great world that would
be
> no match for an untrained person with plenty of common sense.

If I throw you in a swimming pool, or just shove your head under water, you
will hold your breath. It is instinctive, babies will do it.
Please explain the "common sense" in NOT HOLDING YOUR BREATH if you loose
your regulator at 20 feet and must ascend to the surface.
Ask the parents of the kids who jumped into the 8 foot pool with hose and
bucket over their head and when the air in the bucket got foul, held their
breath and swam up.

"Common sense" tells me that since "the idea is to get to the bottom" I put
enough weight on to sink.
The quote comes from a long funny story about a couple who said - and did
just that. It is funny because both survived, only because there was
somebody there to help them.

"Common sense" does not tell you to drop your weights in an emergency.

A highly trained moron would do as trained, your untrained person with
plenty of "common sense" would not.