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> Rich, I watched your other video of the volcano underwater. > That was really great! Thanks. Far & away the most intense diving of my life - hands down, no bullshit scary stuff. I'm not kidding when I say the multiple 360-foot air dives were weenie-dive compared to the lava flow stuff. Not that the lava stuff is dangerous per se, just that it's REALLY fucking scary to be there, making it difficult to concentrate on anything. (like dive gear...which is why we kept it extremely simple). > On the subject of scooters, if you use the > soft brushes and sand the commutator, it won't make that noise. > The problem I found is not the noise, but the electric field. > They can hear you heatbeat from as far away as they want, but when > they get close, the field makes them want to eat. I just let off > the trigger and turn off my light. That has always stopped them. Some of my friends are the world authorities on sharks sensing electical fields, and I've brought this concern up with them. Their general answer is "we really don't have a clue, but it probably affects the sharks behavior". I'm always nervous as hell with the rebreather - all those different metals and electronics. Although I've seen dozens of sharks with the rebreather (more than I ever used to see with scuba), they haven't been aggressive. Really quite benign, actually. I asked Marty Snyderman what he thought of the problem, and he said he didn't think it would be too significant (he ought to know). Howard Hall didn't have any trouble with the Mk-15 either. I'm still nervous on the decompression line murky water, though....like yesterday, for example.... > We were lobstering on the wall in Bimini one night, and they came > after me. I let off the trigger, but was afraid to turn the light > off because I thought I would not be able to see them. I pushed > them off a couple of times, trying to get to a backup light, and > finally had to try it as they were crashing into me. I could still > see them, but they left me alone once the light was off. - George Reminds me of my first encounter with a shark underwater. I was like 11 or 12 or something in the Galapagos Islands, and I was also lobstering, with the crew of the boat we were living on. I had one of those Darrell-Allen lights (I bet you cave guys just LOVE the reliability of Darell-Allen light switches...). It was also my very first night dive (snorkle, really), so I was real nervous. I finally started calming down and drifted away from the others. Suddenly I looked up ahead of me and this GIANT hammerhead was coming straight at me! I was PETRIFIED with fear and couldn't move. Then that ol'd reliable Darell-Allen switch decided it was tired of carrying current, so it just shut itself off (as it was prone to do). I was, of course, even MORE gripped with fear - comatose, really. Anyway, a few seconds later, the light came back on all by itself, the shark was gone, and I walked on water getting back to the boat. I really should write a book someday.... Aloha, Rich
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