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Scuba Obsessed Episode 98 - Lots and Lots of Weeds

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Mack, Jim S. and Darrin cover some scuba in the news. There were more than a couple of weeds in the last dive.

Scuba in the News

• Stricken cargo ship Rena breaks up off New Zealand
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1UJbI7exb_s
• Scuba Diving Instruction in the US Industry Market Research Report Now Available from IBISWorld?
• http://iarediver.blogspot.com/2012/01/top-5-essential-bits-of-scuba-kit.html
• TRAFFIK Aligns with Worldwide Scuba Diving Authority to Launch Uniquely Personalized, Trackable Sales Campaign - PR.com?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1UJbI7exb_s
• Aqua Lung America, inc. v. Watermark Scuba, Inc. [We teased this but forgot to cover it in the podcast. OOPS]
• http://iarediver.blogspot.com/2012/01/top-5-essential-bits-of-scuba-kit.html
• Mystery of disappearing 3.5 ton underwater statue off Italian coast
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1UJbI7exb_s
• ‘Avatar 2' Underwater Filming Has Sam Worthington ‘Nervous’
• http://iarediver.blogspot.com/2012/01/top-5-essential-bits-of-scuba-kit.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1UJbI7exb_s
• Get on the water this weekend at the Chicago Boat Show - - Web only | ChicagoParent.com?
• http://iarediver.blogspot.com/2012/01/top-5-essential-bits-of-scuba-kit.html
• Electronica cruise runs aground in the Bahamas
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1UJbI7exb_s
• Upton flexes "Dredge Man" muscles
• http://www.heraldpalladium.com/articles/2012/01/10/local_news/8089841.txt
• An eerie trip with the tourists diving two miles to see the Titanic
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085498/An-eerie-trip-tourists-diving-2-miles-Titanic.html

Potentially Cool Gear

• Hamster-power submarine is the future of underwater rodent travel
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1UJbI7exb_s
• Waterproof tablet drops into AT&T this month | CES 2012: Tablets and E-book Readers - CNET Blogs?
• http://iarediver.blogspot.com/2012/01/top-5-essential-bits-of-scuba-kit.html

Video of the week

• TEDxUF - Jill Heinerth - Challenging the Unknown
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1UJbI7exb_s

Blog Posts

• Top 5 Essential Bits of Scuba Kit
• http://iarediver.blogspot.com/2012/01/top-5-essential-bits-of-scuba-kit.html

Scuba Obsessed

Scuba Obsessed Episode 56 – 56 degrees in February! Inconceivable!!!

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Some of this week's scuba in the news

Diver Swepty Away, There is an app for that, Free Dive Computer Training and Another Use for a Wetsuit & a Chainsaw

• Diver Swept Away
  • Diver 'swept away' from group
    • http://www.examiner.com/scuba-diving-in-national/padi-unveils-scuba-diving-app-for-iphone-and-android-users
• There is an app for that!
  • PADI unveils scuba diving app for iPhone and Android users
    • http://www.examiner.com/scuba-diving-in-national/padi-unveils-scuba-diving-app-for-iphone-and-android-users
• Free Dive Computer Training
  • Scuba equipment company provides free online dive computer training
    • http://www.examiner.com/scuba-diving-in-national/padi-unveils-scuba-diving-app-for-iphone-and-android-users
• TrainingTecRec
  • Instructor Trainer: No Longer Restricted to PADI Course Directors
    • http://www.examiner.com/scuba-diving-in-national/padi-unveils-scuba-diving-app-for-iphone-and-android-users
    • http://blog.darcykieran.ca/post/3310530790/bodi-the-business-of-diving-institute-scuba-tecrec
• A mermaid's tale (or is it tail?)
  • YMCA pool a practice tank for would-be mermaid
    • http://www.examiner.com/scuba-diving-in-national/padi-unveils-scuba-diving-app-for-iphone-and-android-users
• Another Use for a Wetsuit & a Chainsaw
  • City Takes Novel Approach to Breaking Up Ice Jams
    • http://www.examiner.com/scuba-diving-in-national/padi-unveils-scuba-diving-app-for-iphone-and-android-users
• Scuba Shows Coming Up
  • Our World Underwater - February 18-20 in Rosemont, Illinois -
    • http://www.examiner.com/scuba-diving-in-national/padi-unveils-scuba-diving-app-for-iphone-and-android-users
  • 30th Annual Shipwreck - March 5th -  Ann Arbor, MI -
    • http://www.examiner.com/scuba-diving-in-national/padi-unveils-scuba-diving-app-for-iphone-and-android-users
  • Ghost Ships Festifal - March 25-26  Milwaukee, WI -
    • http://www.examiner.com/scuba-diving-in-national/padi-unveils-scuba-diving-app-for-iphone-and-android-users

Also try out a boat show!

• • Annual Chicago Our World Underwater Scuba Show embraces anticipated record snow
    • http://www.examiner.com/scuba-diving-in-national/padi-unveils-scuba-diving-app-for-iphone-and-android-users

The bad scuba joke of the week.

Scuba in the news

• Oil in the Gulf Update - Oil spill stopped on the 87th Day?
  • http://business-and-finance-1357.blogspot.com/2010/07/oil-spill-gulf-of-mexico-2010-update.html
• Scientists roll out mats to kill Lake Tahoe clams
  • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38185174/ns/us_news-environment/
• Diver finds lost Tiffany engagement ring in lake
  • http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jWhdh5EJ6RrvyCS714qti5ZVLXFAD9GUV45O0
• A clean sweep in Newport Beach
  • http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-me-treasure-hunt-20100706,0,7639031.story
• Scuba Diving - 90 Meters Deep In a Swimming Pool
  • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38185174/ns/us_news-environment/
• Experts work to free buried ship hull at World Trade Center
  • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38254110/ns/us_news
• Our Dives Saturday
  • Targets 1 & 2
    • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38254110/ns/us_news
• Our Dives Sunday
  • Ann Arbor 5
    • http://mudclub.scubaobsessed.com/archives/1133
    • http://www.michiganshipwrecks.org/annarbor5.htm
  • Barge and Crane
    • http://mudclub.scubaobsessed.com/archives/1143
    • Visit from the conservation....

Cool Gear - Scuba Diving Chair

• http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/07/scuba_diving_chair_actually_exists.html

Go out there and get wet and dive safe.

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Here is the video as promised for the Hyperbaric Chamber dive.

You can listen to Darrin, Jim and Mac talk about the MUD Club chamber dive in Episode 21 of the Scuba Obsessed Netcast.

The MUD (Michigan Underwater Divers) Club post is available on the club website.

Special thanks to Sub-Aquatic Sports & Service of  Battle Creek, MI for providing us the opportunity to experience a chamber dive! We can’t wait for a next mostly dry dive! We would recommend that every Scuba Diver give this a try to see how they react to being Narced.

Scuba Obsessed

Scuba Obsessed Episode 21 - Shellie's Open Water and MUD Divers Narced

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Darrin, Jim and Mac -- OK

The mud club divers also complete a chamber dive. http://mudclub.scubaobsessed.com/archives/86

http://www.sassdive.com/

• The one-year anniversary of the sinking of the USS Vandenberg.
  • http://www.onlineprnews.com/news/37905-1274893119-celebrating-the-1year-anniversary-of-the-sinking-of-the-uss-vandenberg-off-the-coast-of-key-west.html
• Divers Recover Discarded Toilets Off Malibu Coast
  • http://cbs2.com/local/discarded.toilets.malibu.2.1715784.html
• The Revolution of Science Through SCUBA
  

  The Chamber

  • http://deepseanews.com/2010/05/the-revolution-of-science-through-scuba/
• 

  Through the chamber door

  OIL SPILL UPDATE: Questions and answers from the Florida Keys Dept. of Tourism

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-17646-Scuba-Diving-Examiner~y2010m5d25-OIL-SPILL-UPDATE-Questions-and-answers-from-the-Florida-Keys-Dept-of-Tourism
• Malaysian conference contributes to the future of scuba diving industry
  • http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/10052411-malaysian-conference-contributes-the-future-scuba-diving-industry.html
• Mudsharks clean local beaches, boat launches
  • http://www.lakestevensjournal.com/news/article.exm/2010-05-24_mudsharks_clean_local_beaches__boat_launches

Here is the dive profile from the chamber dive.

Chamber Dive Log

Here is how they make a scuba dive computer. They squeeze everything into that little case.

Shearwater Predator

The Scuba Obsessed Team heading into Chicago to the Our World Underwater dive show. While we were there we got to see some great seminars and get our hands on with some great gear. We have to blog about some of the cool stuff we saw.

In no particular order here we go with our first post from the show.

After a nice dry suit (a post also coming soon) the item I would most love to pickup is a nice technical diving computer. Not that I am diving all that deep yet, but I like to be prepared. As the ultimate geek I was drawn to the Shearwater Predator Computer. Not sure what it was that first caught my eye, but it easily could have been the bright OLED display.

I won’t give you all the details on this computer. You can just as easily get it from their website here http://www.shearwaterresearch.com/pages/dive-computers , but these are some of the features I liked:

• The bright OLED display
• The screen using color to clearly convey meaning. Green is no warnings while yellow or red communicates warning or unusual value.
• Includes dive log software
• Blue Tooth to download your dive log without plugging in a cable
• Easy to change battery
• Large buttons
• Easy to change settings during the dive, such as going from closed circuit to open circuit or changing gas mixes
• Each unit wet pot tested to 11 ATA
• Software is upgradable and sometimes you can upgrade your hardware too (from pursuit to predator for example)

After seeing this computer I asked by tech dive buddy Bob if he had seen one of these yet. His response was that he owned two of them. He had the LCD models and said he was planning on sending one of them in to be upgraded to the OLED version soon. Very cool! Now I just need to save up for one of these bad boys. I don’t really need one yet, but as I work towards the world of tech diving a computer like this would do me well.

** disclaimer – This is not a review. I have never used the computer on a dive (not that I wouldn't love to). Shearwater didn't pay us for this posting. They just thought I was your everyday dive show visitor. **

Scuba Obsessed

Episode 05 - Talking Tech Diving with Bob

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Special Guest Bob talked about tech diving, wreck diving and rebreathers.

We also covered the last week of scuba in the news.

• Bonaire Scuba Diving resort puts BOUNTY on invasive lionfish threatening the islands reefs Mich.
• House Republicans to ask U.S. Supreme Court to protect Great Lakes from Asian carp
• Red Sea liveaboards destroyed by blaze
• MARES scuba diving company announces safety recall of NEMO air dive computer
• Cold water temperatures causing coral bleaching in popular reefs in South Florida and the Keys
• New Rebreather Diver Training Organization looks to move into North American Market

• and underwater plane called “The Nymph

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