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>Folks, Ft lauderdale is the Technical Diving capital of the world. Or >better yet, I will take it one step further, and say the state of Florida >is the Technical Diving Capital. If you would like to challange this, step >on up and try to prove it wrong. The diversity of what is here in Florida >is beyond the doubt, a number one, just come on down and try it. But for >Gawd sakes, don't Hose stuff, butt-mount,wear helmets or anything else that >would make you look like the stroke that you shouldn't be. Okay, I'll stick my neck out and say that the wrecks we have all around the coast here in the U.K. would generally piss over anything you may have in Florida. I give you :Scapa Flow, the D-Day wrecks of Normandy, countless mid-Channel war casualties in 60m and gin clear water, countless inshore war casualties in not-so-clear water, the Aeolian Sky, the Kyarra, the Sound of Mull wrecks, tanks, bombers, Liberty Ships, the Lizard wrecks, Land's End, the Lyme Bay wrecks-Salsette et al, Skomer. I could go on. As far as technical is concerned, none of our wrecks are "cleaned", as they are proper wrecks, anyone likely to get into difficulties will not be diving them, we stick those people on the Louis Scheid. As for helmets, if I didn't have to wear an 8mm hood, I would definitely wear a helmet. Perhaps your cleaned wrecks with the marker arrows to tell you which way to go aren't very old, or suffered blast damage, or likely to drop pieces, but you would often resemble something from Night of the Living Dead on surfacing if you had no head protection diving around here. A thick hood is normally sufficient. If there's no need for head protection where you dive, the need for head protection elsewhere doesn't make those people strokes, it just means they're diving more challenging wrecks. Who's the stroke now? As far as currents are concerned, most wreck dives here are strictly slack water dependent, often with a "no slack" window, eg the Kyarra on springs. Imagine ascending to your stops and meeting the 2' dia shot buoy at 15m... We train our divers to deal with this kind of diving as routine, because it is. Your caves in Florida may be fantastic, but wrecks. Gimme a break. Steve -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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