u/w mp3 player

Rockinghorse Winner wrote:

> Has anyone tried these new mp3 players? I read a brief blurb about em in a
> local diving paper, and they're sposed to be based on the Iriver device, with
> packaging that makes em good to a couple hundred meters. Be intrested in
> noing if they sound ok.


While the novelty of it may offer a certain cool factor, I'd be
concerned it would hide the sounds of a fellow diver in trouble. Mind
you, I've not tried one, I might some day just to grind off the novelty
- but there's plenty of time for the cool factor back on the surface -
preferably in a hammock with an incredibly good cigar accompanied by an
adult beverage and a particularly fetching sunset.


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jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'
"All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of
what we know." -- Richard Wilbur

In article <cfcfe4$6ib@library2.airnews.net>, Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote:
>While the novelty of it may offer a certain cool factor, I'd be
>concerned it would hide the sounds of a fellow diver in trouble. Mind
>you, I've not tried one, I might some day just to grind off the novelty

What sounds does a diver in distress make underwater?

--
Jason O'Rourke www.jor.com

F*********CK!!!!!


"Jason O'Rourke" <jor@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> wrote in message
news:cfcmlp$7r4$1@agate.berkeley.edu...
> In article <cfcfe4$6ib@library2.airnews.net>, Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten>
wrote:
> >While the novelty of it may offer a certain cool factor, I'd be
> >concerned it would hide the sounds of a fellow diver in trouble. Mind
> >you, I've not tried one, I might some day just to grind off the novelty
>
> What sounds does a diver in distress make underwater?
>
> --
> Jason O'Rourke www.jor.com

Jason O'Rourke wrote:
> In article <cfcfe4$6ib@library2.airnews.net>, Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote:
>
>>While the novelty of it may offer a certain cool factor, I'd be
>>concerned it would hide the sounds of a fellow diver in trouble. Mind
>>you, I've not tried one, I might some day just to grind off the novelty
>
>
> What sounds does a diver in distress make underwater?
>

The rapid clanking of a dive knife on a tank comes to mind.

"Jason O'Rourke" <jor@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> wrote in message
news:cfcmlp$7r4$1@agate.berkeley.edu...
> In article <cfcfe4$6ib@library2.airnews.net>, Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten>
wrote:
> >While the novelty of it may offer a certain cool factor, I'd be
> >concerned it would hide the sounds of a fellow diver in trouble. Mind
> >you, I've not tried one, I might some day just to grind off the novelty
>
> What sounds does a diver in distress make underwater?
>
> --
> Jason O'Rourke www.jor.com



Probably the same sound as many lousy (poorly trained) dive masters and
distracted (poorly trained) divers pinging away with tank bangers and knives
on their tank. ping ping ping ping ping ping ping

Forest Aten

Jason O'Rourke wrote:
> In article <cfcfe4$6ib@library2.airnews.net>, Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote:
>
>>While the novelty of it may offer a certain cool factor, I'd be
>>concerned it would hide the sounds of a fellow diver in trouble. Mind
>>you, I've not tried one, I might some day just to grind off the novelty
>
>
> What sounds does a diver in distress make underwater?

Perhaps more importantly, what sound does your dive computer make as an
audible warning when you stupidly exceed your (pick one here):

max depth
low air limit
ascent rate
deco obligation
etc.?

.... and will you be able to hear it above the din of (pick another one here)

ZZ Top
Jimmy Buffet
Vivaldi
Miles Davis
Yani
Beastie Boys ...

Bart F.

PS. Years ago, I used to ski with a walkman until I realized that I was
missing the point completely. Same thing with underwater music. Well, to
each his own.

nobody wrote:

>
>
> Jason O'Rourke wrote:
>
>> In article <cfcfe4$6ib@library2.airnews.net>, Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> While the novelty of it may offer a certain cool factor, I'd be
>>> concerned it would hide the sounds of a fellow diver in trouble.
>>> Mind you, I've not tried one, I might some day just to grind off the
>>> novelty
>>
>>
>>
>> What sounds does a diver in distress make underwater?
>
>
> Perhaps more importantly, what sound does your dive computer make as an
> audible warning when you stupidly exceed your (pick one here):
>
> max depth
> low air limit
> ascent rate
> deco obligation
> etc.?
>
> ... and will you be able to hear it above the din of (pick another one
> here)
>
> ZZ Top
> Jimmy Buffet
> Vivaldi
> Miles Davis
> Yanni
> Beastie Boys ...
>
> Bart F.
>
> PS. Years ago, I used to ski with a walkman until I realized that I was
> missing the point completely. Same thing with underwater music. Well, to
> each his own.
>


Yup, each to his/her own. I suppose there are people that just can't
stand to be beyond their favourite tunes no matter the consequences.
The sounds of solitude while diving are part and parcel to why I get wet
in the first place. Although I'll admit, there are rare times when the
view is beyond silence. So, if anyone assumes I have an u/w music
device, it's more likely just me humming a few bars of a Yanni number,
which will persist until my mask starts to leak. :)


--
jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'
"All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of
what we know." -- Richard Wilbur

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:48:03 -0400, nitespark wrote:

>
>
> Jason O'Rourke wrote:
>> In article <cfcfe4$6ib@library2.airnews.net>, Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote:
>>
>>>While the novelty of it may offer a certain cool factor, I'd be
>>>concerned it would hide the sounds of a fellow diver in trouble. Mind
>>>you, I've not tried one, I might some day just to grind off the novelty
>>
>>
>> What sounds does a diver in distress make underwater?
>>
>
> The rapid clanking of a dive knife on a tank comes to mind.

...which could easily be mistaken for what passes as music these days. ;)

nobody <anyone@home.net> wrote:
>> What sounds does a diver in distress make underwater?
>
>Perhaps more importantly, what sound does your dive computer make as an
>audible warning when you stupidly exceed your (pick one here):
>
>max depth
>low air limit
>ascent rate
>deco obligation
>etc.?
>
>... and will you be able to hear it above the din of (pick another one here)

If you're wearing a hood, odds are no regardless.
--
Jason O'Rourke www.jor.com

Jer,

Your signature seemed oddly familiar ...

"All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of
what we know." -- Richard Wilbur

I believe Wilber was paraphrasing another quote:

"I don't know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to
have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself
in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than
ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Sir Isaac Newton

Bart F.