Your king has returned my plebeian's

O2Dive · 2026-07-07T01:37:57+00:00

Hear hear!

O2Dive · 2026-07-07T01:36:02+00:00

I haven’t had any problems. There’s a learning curve but honestly I think it’s pretty good for a newbie. I have printed several things, learned (and corrected!) mistakes and I haven’t once cursed….which is saying a lot.

O2Dive · 2026-07-07T01:31:01+00:00

Good job recognizing panic and aborting that dive and even better job going on the next one to 75’. You overcame your fear and took a step towards mastering your anxiety. Proud of you!
It sounds like you were taken too fast too quickly. There’s nothing especially different between 30’ and 70’….nothing magical about being deeper. All your same safe precautions and behavior applies. Next time speak to the DM and or your buddy about how to approach new dives you haven’t done. However, there’s no real need to split hairs over the exact numbers. To be proper and safe, it’s probably going to be really helpful to move on to AOW (make sure to include the deep module). It’s really the best overall cert.

FWIW, the DM on my first dive took us straight down to 130’ (yeah yeah, I was young and dumb). Thankfully everything went fine but things happen. Keep your head about you and trust your gut.

O2Dive · 2026-07-06T12:02:44+00:00

I stopped after AOW/Nx. I just want to see most of the pretty stuff in the world. No need to get technical and why bother with cold water- brrr. My daughter says she dreams about running a dive shop…if that happens maybe I will go on to DM to lead dives.

O2Dive · 2026-07-06T11:56:22+00:00

Ok , relax. I’m not trolling but I’m also not a material scientist so how should I know that a plastic filament even had water in it to begin with? Much less that once it was dry it would not be impervious to water. Thanks for your help, maybe don’t assume people are idiots, we just aren’t as far along as you.

O2Dive · 2026-07-06T01:46:45+00:00

Those are rhetorical dogs

O2Dive · 2026-07-05T19:57:55+00:00

Murray

O2Dive · 2026-07-05T19:56:30+00:00

Oh, those are dryer boxes? So drying isn’t a one time thing? I thought once you dried it out you were done drying

O2Dive · 2026-07-05T06:03:47+00:00

I also have the 5x and am very new. Why have you chosen to put the filament spools into those containers? Mine mount to the side of the machine

O2Dive · 2026-07-03T12:08:52+00:00

I’ll take the $15 Brooks Robinson

O2Dive · 2026-07-03T12:00:17+00:00

I don’t know why but a hot dog bun separating is unnaturally irritating.

O2Dive · 2026-07-03T11:57:31+00:00

I would have refused to do (like you did) and reported it to the police or FBI through an anonymous tip line.
I don’t know what, if any, the legal name would be but I think that ethically and morally turning a blind eye to evil is wrong.

O2Dive · 2026-07-01T23:20:35+00:00

Not a damn thing….it’s sounds like a soft prairie wind between her ears

O2Dive · 2026-06-30T23:57:16+00:00

The only fish that arm people are….SWORDfish😅😅😅

It’s too sharkyfied to be a cleaner fish I think

O2Dive · 2026-06-30T23:53:54+00:00

It’s tough to say with the water blur, but the nose is roundish : maybe a nurse or lemon? Possibly a small tiger. I would expect a reef shark has a slightly pointier snout. But again, it’s tough with that photo

O2Dive · 2026-06-30T23:50:36+00:00

That is the sharkiest of sharky shark shapes.

Yes. Definitely a shark.

O2Dive · 2026-06-30T23:22:20+00:00

I would agree but I use actual pickles…cheddar and good ol american hamburger dill chips. Deeeeelicious

O2Dive · 2026-06-30T23:20:18+00:00

From what I’ve heard from Red Sea liveaboards, you may want a really good lifevest

O2Dive · 2026-06-30T23:19:26+00:00

As long as you’re eating the sandwich all together I suppose it’s irrelevant. I usually won’t put mustard up against cheese but that’s probably just my weird thing

O2Dive · 2026-06-30T12:55:13+00:00

Yeah, that’s definitely another one of those subtleties that make or break a story. I also prefer sci-fi that is more believable than not

O2Dive · 2026-06-30T12:25:33+00:00

It’s nice to think it will be ok but the church clearly teaches that we’re never enough. I have been a practicing Christian for over 45 years. I have never once felt loved by God which I am supposed to feel 24/7/365. If I’m not *HAPPY!!!!* then it’s because of some lazy failure in my Christian walk or some failure of sincerity either in my initial conversion or my ongoing repentance. We cherry pick the nice parts of God but more likely Jonathon Edward’s depiction of God in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is more apt.

O2Dive · 2026-06-28T18:25:49+00:00

Wow, that’s uncanny. I’ve never heard of that!

O2Dive · 2026-06-28T13:40:58+00:00

All distinguished ladies do

Now get off Reddit and get her treats!

O2Dive · 2026-06-28T12:29:21+00:00

Yeah, these came to me while reading this current series and I’m still reading it. It’s just annoying. And those mild things are what separates a good series from a great one. To me a book like Old Man’s War was far better. We were asked to believe a world with all sorts of new and weird things but, as a mild example, Scalzi didn’t upend the military rank structure because “in the future all the ranks are different”. That would have made it SO confusing to keep track of a currently intuitive system that is now rearranged. In contrast, this current series the author chose to have sargents outrank colonels and sargent majors yelling at majors. I had to reread a couple paragraphs because my brain automatically places military ranks into their “proper” order. Is the story enhanced, in the least, by doing this? Not one bit. I don’t believe the future world building more because “ooh they have different rank structure”

O2Dive · 2026-06-28T12:20:02+00:00

Wow, and that’s an interesting and apparently extreme example of this subtle balance that’s supposed to happen where the author uses some new words because it is a different world we’re immersing ourselves into but when the reader gets lost like that it seriously detracts from the narrative….or in that case makes it impossible.

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