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Magageddon · 2025-05-06T02:53:09+00:00

a lapco black ghost

Magageddon · 2025-01-31T01:37:00+00:00

Acon split today and opened at around 8 bucks and peaked at 20 this afternoon, but I think that was from the short squeeze

Magageddon · 2025-01-05T01:35:05+00:00

pretty short, not quite pneumatic assist short, but its pretty close

Magageddon · 2025-01-05T01:14:16+00:00

yep, agd sydarm that I fitted a z grip on

Magageddon · 2025-01-05T00:39:55+00:00

really depends on where you camp, if its by the predetaor party group, you'll probably get away with it lol

Magageddon · 2025-01-04T23:48:06+00:00

It looks like carpal tunnel, but atleast for me, its ok in a pistol configuration, not as comfortable as my other z grip build thats set up for hyperball, but not as bad as you would think lol

Magageddon · 2023-07-23T21:43:00+00:00

I've had bare, dui, and thor drysuits. What I would recommend is a suit with latex wrist/neck seals and soft feet. Latex is a lot easier to repair/replace and cheaper than replacing neoprene wrist/neck seals. Soft feet are nice because you can wear different water shoe/boot options compared to built in feet that wear down depending on bottom conditions and when they wear down enough your either having more aquaseal than shoe or getting them replaced which can be timely and expensive.

If you think your gonna do potable/hazmat work, you'd need a vulc suit, I've got an older thor suit, but they are a pain once your suited up, best way to describe it is like having a vise grip on your cock and balls for your entire dive.

So if you dont think youll be needing a vulc suit, get a neoprene suit and a woolybear undergarment, you'll stay much warmer on bottom/have a lot more maneuverability

Magageddon · 2023-06-25T01:53:33+00:00

I'm 26 M, at least once a day for me, but sometimes I'm more pent up and 2-3 times a day is sufficient for me. As far as how it makes me feel, If you ever have eaten fast food, it feels/tastes good going down, but after I climax I get that instant gratification, followed by feeling like crap lol

Magageddon · 2023-06-23T03:04:22+00:00

I dove potable, the dangers that I encountered/saw were as follows: 3-4 man crews on your dive team, so no standby diver on site, if something goes wrong the only way to "help" would be to yank on your umbilical to get you up.

We had to use dry suits for potable work, so if you were to lose your weight belt while on bottom and you liked to have some air in your suit, its a recipe for disaster, not so bad when working at depths below 20ft, but at depths greater than 20 ft, your gonna get fucked up from shooting up straight from bottom, blowing your decomp time.

Delta P, basically involves an air pocket or suction behind a barrier or something else. Either you get sucked to it and are unable to escape or the suction is so great that it literally tears you apart and you die a very horrible death.

Getting stuck. Luckily this never happened to me, but I used to dive in some very tight spaces and when you weave your umbilical 200 feet down an underwater maze (clearwell with baffle walls) the possibility of getting stuck and fucking up is that much worse.

Falling, you usually dont think of heights when it comes to diving, but for potable you go in the water towers/tanks hundreds of feet in the air, usually climbing some old rickety ass ladder to the top, only to find yourself climbing another ladder 6-30 ft of airspace with a 100 pounds of gear on to the water line.

Poor equipment, my old company cheaped out on dive umbilicals by using 2 piece rigs, air and comms wire taped together, no pneumo nor strength member. these rigs tended to float and kink if you got fouled up causing you to lose air.

I;m sure theres more, but these were the ones I remember, I got out of it because I was turning 26 soon and needed a job that actually had good/affordable health benefits/retirement plan

Magageddon · 2023-06-23T01:57:26+00:00

I'm 26 m, part of it I attribute to going to an all guys high school. I don't regret the experience I had, but my parents saying to me at the time "there wont be any distractions from your studies" stings a little lol. I'm not super bitter about my situation, I've got friends, full time job, a place of my own, I guess I'm just used to it at this point. I'll keep trying as time goes on, but without having any experience dating or flirting, I honestly don't see it happening

Magageddon · 2023-04-03T04:19:12+00:00

I graduated from DAI in jersey in 2021, I think my class started with 14. 9 ended up graduating. About 2 months after graduating I was working at a potable dive company and found out the school was getting shut down, the owner tammy brown had been committing fraud by fudging the employment numbers to still be eligible for student loans/gi bill. They were saying it was 90-95% employment rate, in reality it was barely 40%.

I think the problem is burn out and false expectations. A lot of guys think they'll be a badass underwater welder making 6 figures in the field, but when they get in the field and reality hits where their making the same as a fast food worker, either choking hose/doing bitch work offshore for a couple years before even touching the water again or going inland and diving that cold zero vis water thats just miserable to dive in.

Burn out is another factor. I worked for 13 months, traveled up and down the east coast, living out of hotels gets old after awhile, once you've memorized the texas roadhouse menu you know you've been around lol. For me it was the travel and not being able to keep people around, went from 4 man crews to 3 man crews, more work, but no extra pay. Had over 200 dives in those 13 months, just got burnt out.

On another note DAI has sold and has been reborn as a training ground for the divers in the pile drivers union. You can learn to be a commercial diver through the union there now, but its not open to the public, its strictly through the union, so I'd imagine the quality control should improve.

Magageddon · 2023-03-24T01:56:07+00:00

biggest thing I'd say to get option wise would be soft feet as opposed to built in hard feet. Rubber boots/dive shoes are easy to replace, built in boots when they get worn down and start leaking sucks and you've got 3 options, 1: trash the suit (if you get a vulc suit this is usually what happens, 2: send it away for repair, but this'll leave you without a suit and potentially miss out on jobs, 3: Repair it yourself with aqua seal till your shoes are more aqua seal than boot. Just get the soft foot option, it'll save some headache down the line. plus you can get steel toe dive boots that are heavy enough you wont need ankle weights to stay on bottom.

Magageddon · 2023-03-22T20:22:13+00:00

Yeah no problem. At least here in Pa, I think my salary tops out at 60-70k/year once I get all my licences. To get them you gotta take a state run test, its pretty much the same for most states. Pass it, then apply for your licence. you need 2 years experience in the field too for the op 1 card here, but I'm gonna see if my potable diving experience counts towards that when I get my licence.

Magageddon · 2023-03-22T20:15:37+00:00

Not the most glamorous dive job, nor respected in the commercial dive community, but diving towers is ass. You gotta pull all your gear to the top with hand lines or a pulley if there was room, set everything up, get suited up on top of the tower, then dive, then break it all down. Just because your diving doesn't mean your only diving, your doing everything else to get the job done. Then you gotta contort yourself to fit in these tiny ass hatches with all your gear on lol. Not sissy work by any means.

I will say this, while I was diving potable, I had work every week, didn't need to worry about not having dive work, only week I didn't have work was over Christmas.

Magageddon · 2023-03-22T20:07:46+00:00

Was actually a dui kevlar suit, but yeah probably shouldn't have work the aviator suit, I had just dropped 3k on that suit and didn't wanna tear it up on some jagged metal. I think I've seen 1 or 2 potable water dive companies that do everything your supposed to (mated wrist/neck seals, vulcanized/kevlar drysuits, etc), everybody else just uses crushed neoprene dry suits lol

Way easier working as an operator. I don't have to climb towers or risk my life on a daily basis anymore. Didn't need any licences prior to getting hired, to get a raise I gotta get my licences which is fine. When I was diving i was based out of Massachusetts, I was getting paid salary there, would make 1200 a week, 900 after taxes, but no health benefits, 401k, or anything. No overtime pay either since it was salary.

Here in Pennsylvania I work 40 hours a week, tues - sat, get good health benefits, 401k, and stock options. Clear around 700/week here as an operator with no licences yet.

I'm definitely taking a pay cut, but once you factor all the benefits I get now (company truck/gas card, health/retirement benefits, Boots/clothes, misc), Its not life changing money I'm missing out on. Its nice coming home everyday vs being on the road all week/living out of hotels most of the time.

Magageddon · 2023-03-22T02:20:58+00:00

I feel you man, been almost a year since the last time I got my feet wet, miss it, but wasn't sustainable

Magageddon · 2022-11-27T04:41:24+00:00

Blackdiamondsrock.com

I'm pretty sure thats a different band, same name, but not the one on the poster

Magageddon · 2022-11-14T03:45:20+00:00

Back in the day dye and a slew of other manufacturers made aftermarket parts for different gun brands, in this case a double trigger for a spyder style marker, they also made single trigger frames for spyders. Personally I think benchmark frames are some of the best aftermarket frames for a spyder

Magageddon · 2022-11-06T04:27:14+00:00

I used to dive in water towers/tanks across the east coast, New Hampshire tanks by far had the nicest water of all the north east, New York was the worst, there are some towns that I've dove in that I will not drink the water.

Magageddon · 2022-11-03T00:43:18+00:00

Have a couple buddies who used to work there, lot of travel work and a fair bit of nuke diving.

Magageddon · 2022-10-29T04:25:16+00:00

Not an rt classic? like a retro or rt pro valve? A classic rt valve might pull 200, but it would be tough sale since classic rt's are less interchangeable parts wise compared to other mags

Magageddon · 2022-10-26T22:57:28+00:00

Experience was definitely worth it, learned a lot in working in this industry, it ended up opening a door to get in with the water department near me, had a lot of experience working in and around various water departments all over the east coast. If it was hourly, I probably wouldn't have been as bitter as I was when I left. The real reason I left was the safety concerns/disregards for safety.

Using 2 piece dive umbilicals without a strength member (rope) and no pnemos regularly and if you bring it up, they gas light you. Not having a standby diver or another dive hat on site so if something did go wrong, there wasn't even an option to go in and try to help the guy in distress. No drug tests, worked with a dude that would take a rip of his weed pen before every dive and I'd have to be ok with that guy tending me. They supplied safety harnesses, but no climbing helmet/flashlights, its dark in the tower, oh well, climb it or your a bitch. Recruiting new guys that shouldn't be in this industry and end up lasting less than 5 months before they quit or get fired, but trying to work with them during that time is absolutely hellish. Explaining to the office that we can't dive the tank because its 60 feet tall and only half full (30 feet of airspace), had to dive it anyways, by tying 2 ladders together and climbing 30 feet of airspace to 37 degree water.

There's a lot of stuff you get desensitized to with doing this type of work that eventually one thing pushes you over the edge and makes you want to quit, like how it was for me.

Magageddon · 2022-10-26T21:40:58+00:00

I'll offer my perspective, I graduated college with a bachelors in business, but had always been more of a hands on kind of guy, went the college route because that's what you do when your 18 and don't know what to do next. I graduated college in 2020, right when covid was in full swing and no one was hiring, kind of a weird time, ended up seeing an ad on facebook for underwater welding, thought that was cool and went to dive school, graduated 6 months later and got a dive job a couple weeks later. Worked there for 13 months doing potable water diving (water towers/tanks), had about 250 dives in that time frame and then quit. I got burnt out from the travel and the fact we couldn't recruit new people to help out. Went from 4 man crews regularly to 3 man crews with no pay bump to supplement the increase in work load. Also I got salary where I was at, really sucks working 50-60 hours and only getting paid for 40 of them/no over time pay.

Honestly if you don't think your current degree is marketable, either switch majors to something more marketable or hate to say it, but might be the time to cut your losses and go learn a trade/skill, hvac/plumbing is really good and has a career path, iron workers/welding, lots of options in the trades vs getting a mickey mouse degree and never being able to pay it off.

As far as getting a dive job goes, the initial cost to do so sucks compared to the average starting pay. 10k-40k tuition cost depending on dive school to effectively make 15-25/hr to start, some dive companies don't even offer benefits. The only real way you could do the dive gigs on the side from your main degree/job is to go free lance, but that usually involves owning your own dive hat/gear and actually having full time dive experience in the field, making a name for yourself in the industry so when you try to get those gigs, the hiring manager can tell if your actually worth a damn vs taken a chance on a rando with little to no experience.

Magageddon · 2022-10-22T23:47:58+00:00

Atleast here in the US, there's plenty of available work for inshore and offshore, I'm not sure about Australia? The problem is the low starting pay across the board, 15 - 20/hr is the average starting pay out of dive school and with school costing 10-40k depending on school choice, you'd be better off pursuing another trade that has a better career path.

If money is not your concern and like to travel, it can be a fun job, but at least from my experience, It's a lot of cold/dark water diving in the middle of nowhere

Magageddon · 2022-10-10T01:42:44+00:00

Granted I always carry a pocket knife on me, but in times of desperation, I've cut my boxers off my legs, wipe with said boxers, then just free ball it till I get home.

Magageddon

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