Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by Saitch

What was your max depth, ND?

90-100 metres free diving a few times. It hurts! Practicing at the pool is cool going horizontally under water in the 50m pool A lot safer IF practicing pushing past 5 minutes as well. A lot of people even good divers pass out when pushing the time factor past 5 minutes! pool is easy, At depth our lungs get significant Hydrostatic-induced lung compression. It took me a few hours to recover from one free dive to 100m. A helpful Dive Doc told me our lungs are compressed to just 20% of the volume at that depth.

Herbert Nitsch free diving record at 214 metres!

Scuba is usually not so deep. Dive tables and timing is critical for most depths. It gets almost pointless at 40 metres with just a few minutes on the bottom with normal air diving. Diving Tables show this well Dive Tables

Mixed air SCUBA is able to go deeper- gets very specialized and for 99% of divers not a lot of need. You could breath from my dive cylinder for over an hour or two on the surface easily. At 20 metres I get just under an hour as long as not breathing to rapidly and keeping my heart rate reasonable- This is very much a goal in running for me as well.

PS If you ever get the chance to hop in a Hospital Re-compression chamber do it- Nitrogen narcosis is the best fun you can have with your pants on IF its done when NOT diving. I have helped a few divers with it at 27metres usually. I have not had it in the water myself! Nitrogen narcosis is not really free diving issue.





The people in this video did not have a HUGE Clearance Dive I had in the Dive Chamber who had a deep booming voice turn to Donald Duck like. Add your own laughter is Donald Duck like to really kick it along In case your wondering they hold their noses to clear ears or equalize the pressure in thier sinuses. If not done PAIN and aural barotrauma would occur.

I'm more than happy with my 12 metre limit (by sounder), whilst recovering fishing gear that some dopey pillock had knocked overboard.

I was solo too.

Originally Posted by Saitch

I'm more than happy with my 12 metre limit (by sounder), whilst recovering fishing gear that some dopey pillock had knocked overboard.

I was solo too.

Trivia then is Olympic diving pools are perfect for you then Diver Saitch Noted when at a Olympic diving pool doing training for a month that very few people could dive as deep as you can Sir. Bravo Zulu.


Other cool trivia to day is proven fake was real!

"Gold coin proves 'fake' Roman emperor was real

The face of Sponsian the first, who was purged from history by experts in the nineteenth century. Researchers have now established that he was a lost Roman emperor."

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Trivia then is Olympic diving pools are perfect for you then Diver Saitch Noted when at a Olympic diving pool doing training for a month that very few people could dive as deep as you can Sir. Bravo Zulu.

Perhaps I should have mentioned that I was equipped with mask and fins.

Interesting too, that a mate of mine was once a salvage diver, in PNG and he has been to 20m free diving.

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

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"Gold coin proves 'fake' Roman emperor was real

The face of Sponsian the first, who was purged from history by experts in the nineteenth century. Researchers have now established that he was a lost Roman emperor."

Oh, no, now we are going to have to add a new month into the calendar. Roman calendar - Wikipedia

"After Caesar's assassination, Mark Antony had Caesar's birth month Quintilis renamed July (Iulius) in his honor. After Antony's defeat at Actium, Augustus assumed control of Rome and, finding the priests had (owing to their inclusive counting) been intercalating every third year instead of every fourth, suspended the addition of leap days to the calendar for one or two decades until its proper position had been restored. See Julian calendar: Leap year error. In 8 BC, the plebiscite Lex Pacuvia de Mense Augusto renamed Sextilis August (Augustus) in his honor.^{[37][38][31][c]"}

I did visit Japan a few years ago. Bins were very infrequent! It was very very clean- Clean up Australia could benefit from good examples


"Cheer, Chant, Clean: Japan Takes Out the Trash, and Others Get the Hint

Japanese fans went viral for cleaning up after a World Cup victory. Fans from other countries are following their example.

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PS they lost "Japanese fans who had just spent hours bouncing under a blistering midday sun allowed themselves a moment to wallow in the disappointment of their team’s 1-0 loss to Costa Rica."

A tesla truck made its first 500 mile loaded trip. 80,000 lbs class 4 (36287.39kg) Might be 81,000lbs.

The capacity of load is significantly less than current trucks of the same size due to the battery weight.

Other thing of note is Melbourne to Sydney is 878 kilometers (546 miles). Close but no cigar?

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Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Other thing of note is Melbourne to Sydney is 878 kilometers (546 miles). Close but no cigar?

Having the battery go flat at the bottom of the Dipper could ruin your whole night.