the DiVeFR reaches surface again

Hey guys!!!! Miss me??? Yep still doing the diving thing. I know what your thinking. Where in the hell have you been? Have you been locked up in one of those decompression chambers? No. Passed out in a mexican brothel with coke on a hookers ass? Maybe, but no. I know Ive been MIA for about a year and a half but really theres been a very good reason.

Meet the newest diver in the family.



I introduce to you Phoenix, our pride and joy! Now that he has entered our lives it really has cut my riding down to zero, but Im cool with that. Yes I still have the Silver ghost and no plans on selling it. Il get back in the saddle again but it just wont be anytime soon. I do miss the forum and bsing with you guys but my lil man is a handfull lol.

Hes now a year and a half so here comes some gratuitus pics.




You guys keep the rubber side down and Ill try and poke my head in from time to time. Stay safe out there!!!!

 

Congrats! I had to give up riding for a few years when my kids were young too. now my son rides with me on his own bike sometimes. Kids are the best.

 

Locked up a few in a hyperbaric tank mself.. USAF and NASA certified. USAF School of Aerospace Medicine Grad..

Only one glitch. We were giving a ride to a group of Argentine Air Force Flight Surgeons that included just touching on the fringes of N2 narcosis. One of the docs freaked out. The other docs got him settled. Come to find out the guy had never smoked or had a drink of any kind of alcohol in his life. No drugs of any kind that affect the normal either.

The effect of the onset of N2 narcosis is like slamming aboot 3-4 shaken but not stirred martinis.

 

Well congratulations! What are you going to teach him first, to dive or ride a Motorcycle? Welcome back.

 

Wooooooooow Congratulations man :thumb:
I drop you several PM but your in box is full
Glad to see you back with the addition :welcome: to the world little man :love:
I do have a lot of dive gears for him if you need :wink:
Hope to catch up with you soon.

 

Welcome to the Forum. We are eager to greet our new members. Family pics are nice but we like pix of your ride.

 

Lets see if my arithmetic checks oot. The OP joined up in 2008. He has a 2008 bike. The boy is 1.5 years (that's metric) Digital Cameras weren't anything like they are now in 2008 especially pricewise in pesos.

OH SHIT! This whole thing just became a polynomial..

 

Badbilly

Nitrogen narcosis is fun if your teathered to a boat or in a chamber. Sadly enough I dont even get a buzz anymore. I just did a job to 200'. You are supposed to stop at 150' and wait to get a helium mix. Most experienced divers dont wait and continue on. I didnt even get a tickle when I hit bottom. Hell when I go to the dentist they have to turn their nitrous way up when I tell them what I do for a living.

Oh and congrats on being VFRW troll of the year!!! I knew youd go places!!!

 

Well this is how he came out.

 

Yep sorry for the long furlough. Most of the boats Im on now dont have internet, and of course I get tied up in the lil ones antics when I come home. Itll be a while before I can put him in a helmet. Theres a song that says, "mommas dont let your babies grow up to be cowboys". I think I have bigger problems.

 

Aww come on Randy!!!! Ive been around since before the "Ask Randy" thread. Dont lemme have to pull that one out of the mothballs!!!! Lol

 

Welcome back and congratulations on the new addition to the family!!

That narcosis is fun stuff! lolzz

 

If I bomb to the bottom over 100' I get narcosis. I use to do a 180' wreck on air and would get pretty hammered for a little bit. Mostly just Nitrox dive these days to only 100'.

 

I usually start getting a little narcosis below 130

I dive nitrox unless I plan on doing some deeper dives.

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Nitrox is so much better. Bottom time and very quick topside intervals. Also I would sometimes get headaches if I was swimming hard while spearfishing. I don't get that with nitrox and I don't feel tired after a day of diving.

 

Yup, feel the same way ... I don't feel exhausted after diving on Nitrox. Definitely the way to go if you're not deep diving.

 

Never had narcosis despite having been down to 150 feet.
Seems to be a personal phenomenon.

 

Everyone is physiologically different. I've been to 160 with no recognizable effects and other times I have gotten them.

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I'm usually on helium anytime below 90ft.

 

A friend owns a dive shop and wants me to get tri-mix certified to do some deep dives with him. There are a couple of deep wrecks near me that are excellent hunting. He also has a hydro testing facility that makes him some good money, has contracts with a bunch of fire departments.