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Welcome to Scuba shack Radio season 6 episode

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recorded Monday, 07/01/2024.

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Scuba shack radio is a bi weekly podcast

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in support of our mission to empower individuals

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with knowledge ability and experience to venture underwater

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in pursuit of their aspirations and to advocate

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for ocean health and sustainability.

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Hello again, everyone. And as always, thank you

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for tuning in to this latest episode of

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Scoop shack radio. I'm your host, Jeff.

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Welcome also to July and the second half

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of 2024.

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Wow, that first half of the year went

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by really quick.

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And 1 thing for sure, we've had some

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very hot weather up here, and I know

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much of a country has as well.

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Now, do you miss those cold winter days

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yet?

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Not me, but still 98 to a hundred

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degrees in New England is not what I'm

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looking for either.

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We are also getting ready for the fourth

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of July holiday.

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With it coming on a Thursday this year,

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I'm sure there a lot of people are

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going to be taking a nice long 4

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day break as they head out to visit

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friends and family.

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They say it's going to be a really

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busy travel time this year.

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We're just going to stay put here in

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Connecticut and just take the the 1 day

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off and they get back to the shop

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for the weekend.

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Although,

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we're expecting it'll be very quiet.

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Now on today's show, I wanna talk about

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my thoughts on complacency in Scuba diving.

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But first, let's do some shop updates followed

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by wet notes, news and information.

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Well June was certainly an incredibly busy month

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at Scuba Shack.

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First off, we crossed a very important milestone

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here at the shop.

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We have surpassed 11000

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patty

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certifications.

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Now earlier this year, I was talking to

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Josh Cohen, 1 of our patty and he

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let me know that we were closing in

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on in this mark. I guess I was

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a little surprised that this was coming up.

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Looking at our numbers,

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Of that 11000,

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there were 6258

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open water divers.

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We are very fortunate to have a group

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of instructors who are passionate about diving and

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opening up the underwater world to so many

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people.

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11000 is certainly a nice achievement.

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Now, as I said, June was a very

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busy month. It's K Shack. There were 5

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weekends in the month, which is unusual. So

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after not having any classes the first weekend,

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we proceeded to pack in a combination of

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confined water and open water certification weekends.

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As we have started to do over the

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last few years, we alternate between the classroom

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pool and then the open water dives.

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this year, the weather seems to be cooperating

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a little more for our open water dives.

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Last year it must rained every time we

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headed it out for those open water lives.

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Also, it seems that everyone has tanks that

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need to be serviced. Just when we think

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we're caught up another crop of tank shows

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up for us to either do their visual

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at... Or annual visual inspection or that 5

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year hydro static test.

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Ned has certainly stayed busy at the tang

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And now, it's time to start the second

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half of 20 24.

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This is Wet notes here on Scuba shack

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radio from Monday, 07/01/2024.

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First off, let's start with some very good

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I received an announcement from Dana Miller, senior

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director strategic initiatives at Ocean.

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And the email outlined an announcement that Amazon

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will be replacing 95

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percent of the plastic pillows

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from their North American deliveries.

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The plan is to replace the pillows with

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100 percent recycled paper.

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Amazon will avoid about

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15000000000

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plastic pillows per year. Wow.

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These pillows are made up from, plastic film,

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and that is the most common form of

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plastic pollution in near shore at areas.

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It's also the deadliest pollution to large marine

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mammals.

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I for 1 won't miss this stuff. I

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find it hard to dispose of when trying

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to get all the air out of the

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bubbles.

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This does beg the question of how much

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of this stuff is already in the pipeline

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with the manufacturers of the product.

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I'm sure once Amazon pulls the plug. There'll

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be a lot of other places that will

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try to sell plastic pillows to companies that

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do a lot of shipping.

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I wonder if there can be some sort

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of initiative to stop using the stuff.

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In any case, we need to build on

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the momentum from Amazon

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and maybe we can even get Walmart to

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do the same thing.

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And while that last update was some good

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news, Here is the flip side with some

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bad news about Whale hunting.

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You see, there was a story recently in

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the online Scuba diver magazine news section with

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the headline,

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thin whale protection hopes dashed iceland.

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I'm pretty sure I reported on this 1

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And recently, Iceland just granted the only remaining

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a permit to harpoon up to 128

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The thin whale is the second largest whale

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next to the blue whale in size.

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sees red as vulnerable to extinction.

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has indicated that they will not be able

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to go after the whales this year because

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of a late decision. Their boat won't be

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ready to go out

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during the mid June to September season.

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But this still leaves both Japan and New

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our way out there, hunting whales this year.

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That leads me to wonder just when all

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Last week, I attended a special webinar that

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deemed a sponsor to discuss the lobbying efforts

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supporting Scuba diving.

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The presentation was done by Emily Coy, who

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is deemed as federal lobbyists.

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The webinar title was how politics shapes to

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dive industry.

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Bet a lot of you like me never

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realized that there are a lot of things

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that go on in Washington

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that impact the diving industry. Either positively or

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Laws that sometimes look good on paper failed

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to recognize the serious impacts on another area.

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The small passenger vessel liability Act is 1

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of those laws.

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And through our lobbying efforts, hopefully, that will

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be rectified with the dive bo act.

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Emily took us through a lot of details

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about how congress is shaping up and how

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the changes impact the efforts that are going

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I learned something interesting about something called the

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That is where the committee chairs and ranking

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members must all agree to something thus allowing

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legislation to move forward.

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Now I'm pretty sure back when they set

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up our constitution, the founding fathers didn't contemplate

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But this is where we are today, and

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we are certainly fortunate to have emily lobbying

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for the dive. Community.

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Now here are a couple of stories about

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underwater discoveries, and they are very, very different

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First, there was a news article that I

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saw on Fox News 35 out of Florida

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by brief.

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The headline is,

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Florida treasure hunters amazed by discovery in 300

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year old ship wreck. You don't expect that.

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So there is this group of treasure hunters

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who have been working with Sal Ga

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who runs the 17

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fleet Queen's Jewels

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Llc.

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Now, his company is the Us district courts

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custodian as the exclusive sal,

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for the Spanish ships that sank during the

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hurricane,

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in July 17 15.

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According to the article, this group was out

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treasure hunting off of Indian River County. That's

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near Vera Beach.

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They've been doing this for several years from

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a boat named Lily May.

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Well, they were in luck 1 day and

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discovered 214

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coins and other artifacts from wrecked ships.

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After all this time, this is amazing

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this is an amazing find

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Now, what is it that Mel fisher said?

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Today is the day.

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Now, in the other story about an underwater

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discovery? I don't think these divers we're expecting

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to find this.

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This story was reported on W v and

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Tv out of Miami.

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Now, a group of divers were down in

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to do some cleanup with rainbow reef.

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They said that the reef was in at

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about a hundred feet, and that is where

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they discovered 25

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individually wrapped kilos of cocaine.

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The coke was wrapped in plastic

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display in plastic, displaying the Nike

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logo.

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All the kilos were salvage and turned over

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to the authorities.

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Somehow, I don't think Nike would appreciate having

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their logo on the kilos of cocaine.

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In key la this October is now open

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for registration,

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Every year I talk about this, and it

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seems every year it falls during our October

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dive trip.

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This year is no exception.

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Well, Fast runs October seventeenth, that's Thursday through

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Sunday, October twentieth.

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Activities include Scuba diving, snorkeling, kayak,

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Ocean seminar, socials in nature tour.

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If you wanna learn more and take a

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look at the detailed schedule, go to WWW

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dot reef dot org slash

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fest.

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Fast is 1 word, REFEST.

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I'll bet it's going to be a great

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And finally, I wanted to let you know

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about a new 3 part series coming out

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soon from Brian Scary.

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The series has titled sea changed, the gulf

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of Maine.

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Now, Brian gave us a little sneak peek

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at of this at the last month... Last

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March at the Boston Sea Rover show, and

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it should be really interesting.

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This series is part of a project by

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a scary to document how warming waters are

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affecting the golf.

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It also,

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a cover story for the June edition of

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National Geographic magazine,

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Nova series on Pbs starting July 20 fourth,

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The 3 episodes are titled bounty,

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peril, and survival.

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I'll definitely be making some time to watch

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all 3.

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Set your Dvr now and catch sea change

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the golf of Maine with Brian Scary.

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Well, that's it for this installment of wet

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notes here on Scuba shack radio.

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In the most recent addition of alert diver

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magazine from Dan,

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there is an article title don't let complacency

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kill you.

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Well that got me thinking a bit, and

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it seems that the more I read through

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the various scuba of publications, It appears that

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this concept of complacency jumps out.

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In another article in that same addition, Francois

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Berman and Mark G warned us

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do not be complacent. Our scuba gear is

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life support equipment that we fully depend on

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when underwater.

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And then in the May addition of Scuba

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diving magazine,

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Art Douglas lessons for life article is titled

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left behind.

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For 1 unfortunate diver,

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familiarity leads to complacency.

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Okay. So the term complacency is being thrown

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around a lot. But is it really complacency

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or is it something else?

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Let me start by defining complacency?

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We might have an idea of what the

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concept means. But if we look at the

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definition, it literally means a feeling of quiet

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pleasure or security

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often while unaware of some potential danger,

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defect or the like.

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It can also be defined as a feeling

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of calm satisfaction with your own ability

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or a situation that prevents you from trying

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harder?

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Now, are we using the term complacency to

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soften what we might really mean in some

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circumstances?

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Is this really careless?

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Is it really irr responsibility

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or is it reckless?

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Or is it all above?

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Careless is the failure to give sufficient attention

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to avoid harm or errors.

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Irr responsibility is having no sense of responsibility,

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while reckless is when you act without thinking

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or caring about the consequences of an action.

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Let's go back to the story by Eric

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Douglas. The story is about a woman who

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is a regular diver on a boat. She's

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also out to hunt Lobster.

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It seems the conditions were okay. And as

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the lobster hunters

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descended it, they all went their separate ways.

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Her tells us that the last time the

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woman's buddy saw her was at 15 feet

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as they descended.

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As the divers returned it a boat, it

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seems there was some confusion with the roll

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call given the mix of photographers and lobster

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hunters.

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Seems they finished the roll call, pulled up

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anchor and headed to another dive site.

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The woman was not on board and never

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seen again.

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Since the woman was a regular on the

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boat, the crew did not put her name

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on the list,

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We don't know if the woman ever surfaced

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or and was lost at sea or if

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she carried an Smb or another signaling device.

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How many things have gone wrong here? Now

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is this complacency

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or careless

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or maybe even negligence by the boat crew?

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The other thing that I know is that

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I always stay with my buddy.

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It's not die... It's is not diving with

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your buddy complacent or reckless.

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Maybe we think by using the term complacency,

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there is a lessen of responsibility.

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And here's another article for Eric Douglas. His

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lessons for life common

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column is really something that all divers should

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read

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because you never think you are being complacent

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reckless or irresponsible. So stories from the March

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20 24 Scuba diving magazine

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about questionable fitness.

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This is a story about a student diver

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who's trying to overcome their fear of the

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ocean. Not only that, they are overweight with

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high blood pressure.

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Student didn't disclose any of their, of this

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on their medical form.

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After doing 2 certification dives in a lake,

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they had it 5 miles offshore, and there

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were 4 foot c's. The student did the

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giants stride and immediately had an issue. Couldn't

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climb the ladder. With the helping instructor, they

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made it back on board where they lost

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consciousness and died.

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I don't think the student diver here was

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complacent. Maybe the instructor was because he had

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done this so many times before and felt

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that they could overcome any anxiety or fear

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from the student?

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You be to judge.

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So how do we avoid this trap of

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becoming complacent or careless with our diet? Thing.

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It should be easy. Right?

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We might well know that our equipment needs

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to be serviced because it's either it's time

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or we had an issue with our last

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dive thing In our desire to get new

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water, we might not do our function check.

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We're we might ignore some other small problem

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with the equipment.

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Sometimes, we might take on a dive that's

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beyond our training or capability,

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and we leave it in the hands of

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the dive master to take care of us.

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There are just too many easy ways for

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us to become lazy or quote unquote,

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complacent.

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As a small local dive shop, we cannot

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not afford to be complacent careless or responsible

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or reckless.

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It is making sure that when a custom

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comes in to get their tank filled. We

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verified that they are a certified diver, make

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sure the hydro static test is in in

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and visual inspection are up to date. It's

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ensuring that equipment is serviced in accordance with

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the up to date manufacturers

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specifications. A stress up to date because they

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do change and we cannot afford to be

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complacent in the service.

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Sometimes,

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it is hard to deliver the message to

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a customer that their tank is no longer

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serviceable

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or that there are expensive fixes needed to

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their regulator.

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It is being diligent

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and not complacent.

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Look, we love scuba diving. We do something

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that most people don't do.

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We experience a whole new world every time

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we go diving.

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We also know that there are inherent risks

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in diving.

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We are some place where we naturally are

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not supposed to be.

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We are able to do this primarily

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because of the equipment we have coupled with

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the training and experience we have gained.

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To minimize the risks, we have to be

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prepared and diligent every time we go diving.

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Even the so called easy dives cannot be

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taken for granted.

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I guess I really don't like using the

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term complacent when it comes to diving

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because we know better.

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We are aware of the risks associated with

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faulty equipment

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are diving beyond our capabilities.

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It's not being... Is is not being prepared

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complacent

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or is it something else?

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What do you think?

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Whatever you call it, complacency,

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careless,

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irr responsibility

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or reckless.

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I think we all agree that they have

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no place in diving.

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Well, that wraps up this latest episode of

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Scuba shack radio.

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Thanks again for listening, and have a happy

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fourth of July. I'll talk to you again

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in a couple of weeks

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Until then,

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take care everyone.

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Scuba shack radio is a bi weekly podcast

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supporting our mission to empower our individuals with

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knowledge ability and experience to venture underwater in

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pursuit of their aspirations and to advocate for

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ocean health and sustainability,

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and talk to you next time.