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Comment on In Praise of Older Divers by tim mack

tim mack — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:00:23 +0000

I’m an old acquaintance of naomi stern from east dorset vt.I posses a number of her art works ( The Nun, housework, and more ! ) If someone can get my info to her I would greatly appreciate it. We used to both live at the ‘doctors house’ years ago. Hearing from her would be wonderful ! Tim Mack (802 430 4798)……or timothsmack54@gmail.com Thank you, I can only hope.

Comment on The Adventures of Gilliam and Garth by Peter

Peter — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:43:55 +0000

Epic tales!!

Comment on Chest compressions — The first-line response by Daniel J Vale

Daniel J Vale — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 22:11:40 +0000

Don’t forget the defibrillator! Another point: CPR was never meant to “restart” the heart back into a normal perfusing rhythm – that’s the job of the AED ( and transfused cardiac drugs via a trach tube, when advanced medical care is available ). The principal benefit of excellent compressions is to maintain the patients viability for the time prior to the arrival of the defib. Most public access defibs have an algorithm that will only “see” two cardiac rhythms: Ventricular Fibrillation & Ventricular Tachycardia – any other electrical signature it will not act on. “V-Fib” activity will wane steadily in C.A., making it difficult or impossible for the Defib. to detect – excellent compressions can maintain active, course v-fib.. Train regularly!

Comment on Dear Undercurrent: We have a problem by Melanie Moreno

Melanie Moreno — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:21:00 +0000

In our area most active divers use 2 facebook pages to communicate: Monterey County Dive Reports and Monterey Bay Scuba Divers Open. Thousands of active divers, including many young, skilled technical divers, use these pages regularly. If you want to recruit new divers, that’s where I would go to find them.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/montereycountydivereports/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1447242965517132
If you want to recruit tech divers specifically, go to Bay Area Underwater Explorers at https://www.baue.org/

Comment on Dear Undercurrent: We have a problem by Daniel J Vale

Daniel J Vale — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:22:59 +0000

Hello Geoffrey,

I empathize with your plight. I did 10 years of commercial diving – some construction, but mostly oilfield, then segued to Professional Firefighting, scuba Instruction & EMR teaching. I agree that most recreational divers would balk at the kind of diving you describe. I’m 66 now, thus a little too long in the tooth to run down there and help y’all out!

Have you approached the Firefighting community? Seems to me there should be some good numbers of folks there that would be interested. Is there any remuneration for these volunteers? Our part-time Firefighters up my way earn about $20.00 / hr. for responding. I know money is tight, but you’ll likely need to find some somewhere to sweeten the experience.

Best of luck to you.

DeepSeaDan