MetaFilter posts tagged with scuba

Hacking the Sky

Upton O'Good — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:46:44 -0800

Hacking the Sky: Robert Simpson writes astronomy tools for use with Google Earth, Google Sky, and Twitter.

200 Centimeters under the Sea

Kronos_to_Earth — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:35:08 -0800

"To pedal the 3700 kilometres of open water from Cape Verde off the west coast of Africa to Barbados in the Caribbean should take around 50 days..." Engineer and machinist Ted Ciamillo has built a human powered mini-submarine, designed around a larger version of his Lunocet carbon-fibre "tail" for divers, for an Atlantic Ocean crossing.... The "SubHuman project".

Pascal Bernabe breaks a scuba record – 330 meters below the Mediterranean!

jason's_planet — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:09:29 -0800

Three summers ago, Pascal Bernabe strapped on a scuba tank, stepped off a boat and descended 330 meters into the Mediterranean. This is his account of the dive. Definitions of some terms used herein: High Pressure Nervous Syndrome Trimix Decompression

There is a dildo in the anus covered with a condom

ibmcginty — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:55:48 -0800

NewsFilter: "A Montgomery minister found in his home this summer died with his hands and feet bound behind his back and dressed in two rubberized suits, an offical autopsy showed. ... The Rev. Gary Michael Aldridge was found dead June 24. Police ruled the 51-year-old pastor of Thorington Road Baptist Church was alone at the time of his death and that there was no foul play involved." He's a Liberty University graduate and former Liberty dean. From the autopsy: "The decedent is clothed in a diving wet suit, a face mask which has a single vent for breathing, a rubberized head mask having an opening for the mouth and eyes, a second rubberized suit with suspenders, rubberized male underwear, hands and feet have diving gloves and slippers. There are numerous straps and cords restraining the decedent. There is a leather belt about the midriff. There is a series of ligatures extending from the hands to the feet. The hands are bound behind the back. The feet are tied to the hands. There are nylon ligatures holding these in place with leather straps about the wrists and ankles. There are plastic cords also tied about the hands and feet with a single plastic cord extending up to the head and surrounding the lower neck. There is a dildo in the anus covered with a condom." More discussion and analysis here.

Guidelines for Low-Impact Tourism Along the Coast of Quintana Roo

johnnydark — Sat, 03 Jan 2004 05:02:30 -0800

Guidelines for Low-Impact Tourism Along the Coast of Quintana Roo "Conserving the natural landscape and enhancing the scenic beauty of tourism development contributes to the high quality of coastal habitat, one of the area’s principal attractions." Warning: PDF format!

homunculus — Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:33:45 -0800

The art of ZenScuba, as practiced by The Zen Diving Organization. Cute. I like the MahaGamera Mandala.

hotdoughnutsnow — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 19:23:23 -0800

17 Divers Die In Hurricane
From NPR: Hurricane Iris struck Belize earlier this week. The storm took few victims. Those who died were all members of the same scuba expedition from the Dive Club of Richmond, Va. NPR's Andrea Seabrook went to a meeting of the club, where surviving members talked about the friends they lost and the trust that exists between divers. NPR's RealAudio report