http://www.divematrix.com/ Looking for information on scuba diving? Comprehensive scuba resource covering scuba training, technical diving, dive travel and more. Check out our underwater photo galleries, try our scuba board forums or find a buddy today! en Tue, 21 May 2013 12:17:41 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.divematrix.com/images/misc/rss.png http://www.divematrix.com/ http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13143-Handicapped-SCUBA-Association-International-Dive-Buddy-DM-and-Instructor-Course-SoCal-21-23-June&goto=newpost Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:31:50 GMT Please feel free to pass this on to one and all. The Handicapped SCUBA Association International (HSA) Certification course for adaptive Dive Buddy, Dive Master and Instructor will be held 21-23 June 2013 at *MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL* A COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 169 South Saint John Avenue Pasadena, California 91105 We still have room in the class. This is an intense 3 day course and you should make no other plans for the days of the course. The class includes both classroom instruction and pool. On day two we will conduct a Discover SCUBA event for individuals with real disabilities to give you hands on experience under supervision. Day 3 is a dive boat to Catalina for more training on the boat. Please forward to all who are interested. For application forms and cost information please contact president@dvsp.us . Please feel free to pass this on to one and all.
The Handicapped SCUBA Association International (HSA) Certification course for adaptive Dive Buddy, Dive Master and Instructor will be held 21-23 June 2013 at

MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL
A COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
169 South Saint John Avenue
Pasadena, California 91105
We still have room in the class. This is an intense 3 day course and you should make no other plans for the days of the course. The class includes both classroom instruction and pool. On day two we will conduct a Discover SCUBA event for individuals with real disabilities to give you hands on experience under supervision. Day 3 is a dive boat to Catalina for more training on the boat. Please forward to all who are interested. For application forms and cost information please contact president@dvsp.us . ]]> General Scuba Pasley http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13143-Handicapped-SCUBA-Association-International-Dive-Buddy-DM-and-Instructor-Course-SoCal-21-23-June http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13141-Cuppa-tea-love&goto=newpost Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:53:23 GMT Wow.


ew

wow?
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/0...-mary-omalley/



I'm attracted and repulsed at the same time.
Extraordinary artistry.

But....well, ew.

~~~~
Claudette

one warm line through a land so wild and savage ]]> General Scuba HBDiveGirl http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13141-Cuppa-tea-love http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13118-Infinite-Scuba-virtual-diving-edutainment-game-released&goto=newpost Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:43:32 GMT Here is a new virtual diving game where you can dive the wrecks of Chuuk Lagoon. It is a game but has educational features included http://www.scubagadget.com/?p=2503 Here is a new virtual diving game where you can dive the wrecks of Chuuk Lagoon. It is a game but has educational features included

http://www.scubagadget.com/?p=2503 ]]> General Scuba ScubaGadget http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13118-Infinite-Scuba-virtual-diving-edutainment-game-released http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13111-PastoDeco©-Dive-Planner-and-gas-blender-v-1-4-0&goto=newpost Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:57:09 GMT The new PastoDeco v 1.4.0 is now online!
Now it can generate both VPM-B, Varying Permeability Model with Boyle's colpensation law[/b] and BUHLMANN ZH-L16 Erik Baker's Gradient Factors.
In the blending section a PREFILL function was added, to know what kind of mix you obtain recuperating residual tank gases.
For CCR Rebreathers now you can set aDeco SetPoint.


The link is still the same:
http://pastodeco.antoniopastorelli.c...deco-setup.exe





]]> General Scuba TheSnake http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13111-PastoDeco©-Dive-Planner-and-gas-blender-v-1-4-0 http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13099-Nice-article-on-tuna-protection&goto=newpost Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:42:27 GMT http://www.slate.com/articles/health...high_seas.html

Didn't realize this was going on. Exciting stuff. ]]> General Scuba gsk3 http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13099-Nice-article-on-tuna-protection http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13094-Diving-Concepts&goto=newpost Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:37:26 GMT I'm wondering if anyone here has heard anything (ANYTHING AT ALL) from Diving Concepts. Several of their dealers (me included) have been trying to contact them for a month (more or less) with absolutely no response of any kind.

Have they gone out of business?

If you know anything but don't wish to post it in a public forum please email me at waynne_fowler@hotmail.com
Thank you in advance! :) ]]> General Scuba waynne fowler http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13094-Diving-Concepts http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13086-PastoDeco-1-3-Multileve-Dive-Planner-Trimix-CCR-Blend&goto=newpost Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:24:21 GMT Here the new 1.3 version of PastoDeco software. You can plan Air, Nitrox, Trimix Open circuit, CCR Rebreather dives, calculate blending steps and costs. 6 OC/Bailout Gases + CCR Rebreather. You can define Depths of deco gases. Independents GF settings for bailout profile. Link: http://pastodeco.antoniopastorelli.com/download.html Image: http://pastodeco.antoniopastorelli.com/fbimg/main13.jpg Image: http://pastodeco.antoniopastorelli.com/fbimg/ccr13.jpg Image: http://pastodeco.antoniopastorelli.com/fbimg/multi13.jpg Image: http://pastodeco.antoniopastorelli.com/fbimg/blend13.jpg Here the new 1.3 version of PastoDeco software.


You can plan Air, Nitrox, Trimix Open circuit, CCR Rebreather dives, calculate blending steps and costs.
6 OC/Bailout Gases + CCR Rebreather. You can define Depths of deco gases.
Independents GF settings for bailout profile.


Link:
http://pastodeco.antoniopastorelli.com/download.html







]]> General Scuba TheSnake http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13086-PastoDeco-1-3-Multileve-Dive-Planner-Trimix-CCR-Blend http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13076-Well-looks-like-I-m-done-diving&goto=newpost Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:23:50 GMT Well, after more than 300 dives, it happened. I got the bends. 7 hours in a hyperbaric chamber and a day and a half later and I was feeling mostly OK. The tingling had gone from my fingers and toes and, a week after the incident, the nausea had mostly gone. Months later, I had another follow-up with a dive doctor. I told him of symptoms that lingered, it turns out, longer than they should have -- the dizzy spells, the foggy brain, and the hearing loss. While they've now completely gone (I'm nearly certain), based on the progress of my symptoms, my dive doctor told me that, if I were to go back to diving, it's just a matter of time before I got bent again but, this time, the effects would likely be permanent, neurological, and severe and that there was a good chance that it would kill me.

Myself, my wife, and multiple doctors here and in Indonesia where the accident happened have been over my computers and the hit was undeserved. I dove 6 days, 3 dives per day, always on nitrox, always well within my no decompression limits, and finished every dive with a safety stop. I dove with several other people who dove the same profiles I did (many of whom dove 4 dives a day) including my wife. I was the only one who got symptoms.

This email isn't really to discuss the incident (otherwise I'd have posted it in the "incidents" forum). I'm just explaining that, while I haven't posted here in a while, I'll only be around long enough to sell my gear and say goodbye to some good friends. I've enjoyed diving with Christian, Ken, Claudette, and several others on this list and off. I'll miss diving, in general, and with divers on this board in specific. I'll miss the posts and I'll miss the people.

Thank you all. ]]> General Scuba Code Monkey http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13076-Well-looks-like-I-m-done-diving http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13059-Would-a-mantis-shrimp-chase-a-rainbow&goto=newpost Sat, 02 Mar 2013 23:24:27 GMT Humans "see" hundreds of colors with our 3 kinds of retinal cones.

Mantis shrimp see millions.

How can we imagine what we can't see?
RadioLab approached colors using sound as a metaphor.

http://www.radiolab.org/2012/may/21/

"That's a sucky rainbow, dog."

An excellent listen.

~~~~~
Claudette



one warm line through a land so wild and savage ]]> General Scuba HBDiveGirl http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13059-Would-a-mantis-shrimp-chase-a-rainbow http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13054-PastoDeco-1-2-TX-OC-CCR-DecoPlanner-amp-Gas-Blending-software&goto=newpost Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:39:56 GMT Hi, here is PastoDeco v. 1.2: ADDED CCR REBREATHER SUPPORT Now, the software is able to plan OC and CCR Rebreather dives, Altitude dives, print RunTimes, and handle both metrics and imperials units. Languages: UK/FR/IT/ES Download link: http://pastodeco.antoniopastorelli.com/download.html Image: http://pastodeco.antoniopastorelli.com/fbimg/en/main12.jpg Image: http://pastodeco.antoniopastorelli.com/fbimg/en/ccr13.jpg Image: http://pastodeco.antoniopastorelli.com/fbimg/en/blending.jpg Your advices are welcome to improve the software. In Demo version, Rebreather dives planning is blocked at 75 meters. Hi,
here is PastoDeco v. 1.2:
ADDED CCR REBREATHER SUPPORT


Now, the software is able to plan OC and CCR Rebreather dives, Altitude dives, print RunTimes, and handle both metrics and imperials units.
Languages: UK/FR/IT/ES


Download link: http://pastodeco.antoniopastorelli.com/download.html







Your advices are welcome to improve the software.
In Demo version, Rebreather dives planning is blocked at 75 meters. ]]> General Scuba TheSnake http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13054-PastoDeco-1-2-TX-OC-CCR-DecoPlanner-amp-Gas-Blending-software http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13051-GoPro-Camera-and-Housing-found-at-Vets-Park-last-Friday&goto=newpost Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:41:55 GMT Hi

Our team found a GoPro. In the ocean. On the sand.

Identify the unit, and I'll arrange to have you claim it.

Thanks

-Ken ]]> General Scuba Mo2vation http://www.divematrix.com/showthread.php?13051-GoPro-Camera-and-Housing-found-at-Vets-Park-last-Friday