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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I suspect this was a bad sample on the part of Island Health. Surfriders sampled the same spot on Aug 20 and got a very low count: https://bwtf.surfrider.org/explore/41/475

A count over 4000 seems insanely high. Maybe the sampler scooped up some contamination, like bird crap? I don't know their methodology though, hard to say.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Great we're posting links to The Sun now?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

God this kind of news is so trite. Post again when it's a tech bro deciding to go for a submersible ride.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That kid... is back... on the ESCALATOR!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Because the problem is that smokers just haven't noticed yet that cigarettes are bad for them. This is big brain thinking!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've been proven guilty time and time again for decades. There's entire Wikipedia articles about just the last ten years of them interfering with Canadian elections and influencing MPs, but it goes back way farther than that. Remember the collapse of Nortel? That was the fucking Chinese.

It's getting more media attention because more of it is coming to light, and people are sick of it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as you "plan your dive and dive your plan" and allow appropriate surface intervals you can do 3 in a day without much trouble. Modern dive tables and computers are pretty solid. Typically you do your deeper and/or longer dives first and adjust your intervals as needed. Add some decompression stops to every dive for extra safety and you should be totally fine. Doing extended trips of 3 dives a day id be more careful and work in rest days and more conservative plans and be more careful with exhaustion levels. Every persons physiology is different so you can never be sure, but a conservative approach and common sense will keep you safe.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yes. I have worked professionally in recreational diving as a certified divemaster, and have logged hundreds of dives. I don't even mean to put down the person in the article - I truly believe someone can be an avid diver even after their first dive. The way the entire sentence was worded made it sound pretty funny though, as if they were trying to impress with experience. At 21 dives, you're likely the one the divemaster is going to stick close to, and there's lots of things they're not going to take you close to.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Lol lots of divers don't even start getting comfortable controlling their buoyancy until 30 or 40 dives in.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Should have gone with 'F'

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Gus Carlson is a rich old white guy who works C-level positions with other rich old white guy companies in Downtown Capitalism. He has a clear anti-ESG agenda if you look at his "journalism" history - this kind of FUD article is just part of his agenda to continue fucking the planet for more profit for his rich old white guy club.

This is peak rich boomer bullshit - disparage and attack every attempt at improving technology and the world on the way to the grave.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Opera sold themselves to a Chinese consortium in 2016 and should be considered spyware at this point.

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