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  1. 'Blackbeard' ..is semi-retired, and recently moved to Blaine County due to his family leaving him. He sometimes spends weeks away at a time for work, where he works as a technical and saturation diver for a number of different offshore oil & gas companies. When not fishing, hunting, and generally causing trouble in his spare time, he often does diving jobs for cash.
  2. A concise guide on SCUBA diving roleplay. If you're reading this, you either clicked on it randomly, or you want to know more about how to roleplay SCUBA diving, I'll be going over the basics in order to assure that your roleplay is up to par when roleplaying whilst diving. I will try to be brief but nail down the key points, as well as dissuading any myths people may have and the poorly roleplayed things I've seen during my time here. I speak from experience (qualified Rescue Diver). What is SCUBA diving? SCUBA, or Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, is the activity of breathing and swimming underwater. Diving has multiple applications, whether that be recreational, military, engineering, and scientific. In the past, divers had to wear cast-iron helmets with portholes and iron boots with surface supplied air in order to keep weighted down and breathing, as diving has evolved over the years, it has become not only safer (not risk free, still very dangerous), but more comfortable to dive. Recreational diving Most recreational divers have PADI qualifications, which, depending on your qualification, enables you to go to different depths, breathe different types of air, and even allows you to be qualified in activities such as wreck diving, cave diving, etc. The main qualifications are Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Rescue Diver, Divemaster, and Dive instructor. Every SCUBA dive center and club wouldn't allow you to dive with them, let alone rent their gear, if you didn't have the qualifications needed for the dive you were partaking on. Dive trips that go out to tourist attractions will mostly require you to be at Open Water qualification. Specialised diving Specialised divers, such as public safety divers, have different roles and different qualifications based on the task they're doing, they'd also be using vastly different equipment as opposed to your regular diver, you should research what type of diving you want to roleplay and what equipment a diver in that role would use, as well as their qualifications. Equipment For your recreational diver, they will most likely be using; 1. BCD (Buoyancy Control Device). 2. Mask 3. Cylinder tank (normally using Nitrox mix gas). 4. Octopus set (Containing your primary regulator, secondary regulator, SPG and LPI hose. 5. Wetsuit, drysuit, or even shorts and a t-shirt (Depends on the water temperatures, for a hot and sunny place like San Andreas, rash-vest and a pair of shorts work wonders 🙂) 6. Dive boots (If you're not using slip-on fins) and gloves. 7. Dive hood (If the temperature is cold). 8. Dive computer (Optional). 9. Any additional equipment you would bring dependent on dive (Dive knife, pony tank, etc.) So let's go over everything, a BCD is a vest that you can adjust your buoyancy with an inflator, which is a hand-held toggle to dump air out of your vest, or add air to your vest from your tank, there will also be strings on your BCD to dump air manually from your BCD in the case your inflator isn't working. Your BCD is crucial in maintaining neutral buoyancy (when you breathe in, you float up, when you breathe out, sink.) and it will vary depending on depth and pressure (more on that in a minute). Your mask covers your eyes and nose with a water-tight seal, why is that important? So you don't get water in your eyes and nose. You'd typically pinch your nose and blow out of your nose to equalise when you go down to deeper depths as well, as the pressure causes your ears to become painful (Like being on a flight). The cylinder is a tank filled with compressed air, normally a Nitrox mix. The octopus is a four-tubed mount that fits onto your tank, it has your primary regulator which is normally black, your back-up or secondary regulator which will always be taped in a bright colour like yellow (you would give this to someone else if they had a fault with their gear), a low-pressure inflator hose which will plug into the inflator hanging off of your BCD, and a SPG (Submersible Pressure Gauge), which tells you how many bars of air you have left, you normally start with 200-220 bars of air (2900-3100 psi), and depending on your depth, that would last you more or less 45 minutes. Wetsuits and drysuits are optional, drysuits would act as your BCD, and you would plug in your LPI hose into the drysuit instead which would inflate the suit. A dive computer tells you how long you've been under, and your bottom time and your recommended safety stop. Pressure underwater Basically, the further you go down, the more water pressures down on your body, it compresses your suit (if you have one), your mask, and generally makes things uncomfortable. You will also be using more air the deeper down you go, For every ten meters, you gain an additional atmosphere of pressure, so at 10 meters, you would be at two ATM, and your lung capacity reduces by 50%. This also contributes to the amount of nitrogen that builds up in your muscles. The deeper you go, the more air your using, which is why dive plans are crucial, we use dive tables to determine how long we can stay underwater and what our pressure grouping is (how long we have to stay out of water to allow nitrogen to dissolve out of our tissues. Dive tables Dive tables are used to estimate what pressure group we land in once we surface. Depending on depth and time underwater, you will be assigned a pressure group, this pressure group will have an effect on how long I can go down for on my next dive, and what depth I can go to. So take a look, if I go for a dive at 16M, and I have a bottom time of 34 minutes, I end up in pressure group K. So move over to the right table, if I'm out of the water for 50 minutes, I end up in pressure group D. Don't worry about this too much, for RP sakes, just don't go diving every ten minutes at a depth of 600m, and then shoot up to the surface. Communicating underwater Unless you're a specialised diver with more sophisticated equipment, you'll quickly realise you can't talk underwater with a regulator in your gob, to combat this, we use hand signals to communicate and even sound cues (such as tapping your tank with a metal rod) to get people's attention. Dangers of diving As humans were not naturally meant to breathe underwater, SCUBA diving presents many risks, as we breathe inert gasses, we need to allow them to dissolve out of the tissues of our body. We are also dealing with pressures underwater that are in essence, more prevalent the deeper we go. Here are some diving-related injuries you should be mindful of. - Lung Overexpansion. Occurs when you hold your breathe as you surface, causing your lungs which are naturally shrunken by pressure no space to expand, thus overexpanding and causing ruptures. - AGE (Arterial Gas Embolism). Occurs when expanding air forces through the alveoli into pulmonary capillaries. Depending on where the bubbles occur. For example, it can cause blockages of blood flow to the brain, causing brain damage. - Decompression sickness (DCS). Occurs when dissolved nitrogen comes out of solution forming bubbles in the body, the bubbles block circulation, commonly occurs from mis-use of dive tables or improper dive planning. Decompression illness (DCI) is when a divers ascent rate is greater than that of the dissolving nitrogen, coming up from depth too fast could cause DCI. These are only just a few conditions you can experience whilst diving. There are many more risks associated with diving, it could be things such as sharp airplane wreckage, caves, over-head boats, and also marine life which may cause injuries, there are many injuries that can be mitigated by exercising safe diving practices and sticking to a dive-plan. What does an average dive look like? Each dive will, of course, be different, depending on what the objectives of the dive are. If it's recreational, AKA, go to look at whatever's underwater, you'll most likely have your divemaster assign you a buddy and you'd follow along in a group. Again, it all varies. Regardless, this is normally what would happen. 1. Briefing with divemaster (Goes over what the dive will entail, what your bottom time is, when you plan to start and end, when to take safety stops, etc.) 2. Preparing your gear (Making sure that your BCD is squared away, no problems with your air, no leaks, etc.) 3. Travel out to the dive site (Load your dive gear onto the dive boat with the air OFF, or by walking to the site WITHOUT your fins on. Put them on in the water) 4. Final safety checks (Normally done by using a BWRAF check, Buoyancy, Weights, Releases, Air, Final Check.) 5. Commence the dive (either by making entry to the water or wading in), descend as a group or in buddies. 6. Fulfill dive objectives, divemaster will commonly lead the group, however, if you have your own tasks to do, you'd keep within visibility of your divemaster. 7. Once dive objectives are complete, ascend and make a safety stop at 5M for 3 minutes if necessary. 8. Board boat and/or return to shore. 9. Dive debrief, go over what happened, what went well, as well as all the information needed to make a log in your dive log. Do's and don'ts of diving 1. Diving alone - Never, ever, dive alone. This is insanely risky and realistically is just not possible, especially with a diving center or club, they would always assign you someone to dive with. If you had an accident or your equipment malfunctioned at 20 meters, you would have a buddy on hand to help you. 2. Carrying dive gear in your car - You would never realistically just, have all of your dive gear packed into your car, unless you were planning to go on a dive. Seldom would you ever see someone take out a full set of diving gear from their car because they just felt like it. I've seen it a few too many times where people have come up and gone "Oh, I'll join you", and they mystically retrieve a compressed tank from their car and just get their gear ready in two seconds. It takes time to prepare your equipment and you would never have your cylinder connected to your BCD sitting in your car. 3. Preparing to dive - People normally just /outfit, /scuba, then jump right in. That's just not possible, the equipment weighs around 25kg all together. You would move slowly, and you would never jump in the water without doing a safety check, you familiarise your buddy with your equipment using BWRAF, Buoyancy (Show your buddy where your inflator and your dumps are and how they work), Weights (Indicating to your buddy where your weights are located and how to dump them in an emergency), Releases (Showing your buddy how to unclip your BCD, weight belt, etc.), Air (Check that your air works and your pressure gauge doesn't fluctuate), Final check (Going over your buddies gear to make sure everything is as it should be), only then would you make entry. Divers commonly roll backwards off of the boat (because if they rolled forward, they'd fall onto the boat), or do a giant stride entry. 4. Economy - Diving is a very expensive pastime, as a hobby, you'd be raking out hundreds of dollars in club costs, rental, and gear, make sure the character you're portraying would be able to afford it. 5. Tossing your dive gear back in the car - A lot of people I've seen RPing SCUBA diving often finish up with the dive, shove their dive gear back into their cars, and drive off. Again, not the case, if you were diving in salt water, you'd need to clean off your BCD, regulators, and octopus with fresh water, the salt would damage and corrode your gear, especially inside of your BCD, so make sure to RP cleaning it out fully, even in freshwater like lakes, it's still advised to clean your gear out. Conclusion All in all, diving is a lot more complex than tossing a tank on your back and huffing gas with a pair of goggles on, I'd suggest if you're serious about roleplaying a diver, or opening a dive shop for example, to do a bit of research into the topic if you wish to portray a diver accurately. This is about as concise as a guide can get for this topic, if I missed anything, or you have any questions, let me know. I hope you learnt something new, thank you for reading!
  3. Four dead after car plunges into the Alamo Sea Friday, 30th November 2018 LSFD Public Relations: Chloe MacKenzie Fire apparatus and police vehicles wait on shore while dive teams carry out their search. ALAMO SEA - At 23:03 on Thursday the 8th November 2018, the Los Santos Fire Department (LSFD) were notified by the Los Santos Police Department (LSPD) of a car that had come off the road and gone into the Alamo Sea while being pursued by law enforcement. A water rescue assignment was dispatched to the incident. On arrival firefighters and emergency medical technicians liased with the LSPD to establish that a green Karin Kuruma carrying four occupants had collided with the water at high speed and immediately sunk with the occupants trapped inside. Due to the amount of time the car had been underwater, crews weren't hopeful that there would be any survivors. A police helicopter marked the location by hovering over the water while specialist nighttime Diver teams from Rescue One made their way into the water in scuba diving gear, supported with rescue lines from crews waiting on shore. Helmet cam from the dive team showing a police helicopter marking the spot. Dive team firefighters Chloe MacKenzie and Connor McMahon made their way to the vehicle which by that time had sunken to the seabed. The dive team breached the vehicle by smashing the driver side window, and brought the occupants out by hand. The green Karin Kuruma as spotted by the helmet cam of Engineer Chloe MacKenzie, while Firefighter Connor McMahon tried to open the driver's side door. All four persons (age/gender unknown) were declared deceased at the scene by the Los Santos Fire Department, confirming that the incident was no longer a water rescue but a recovery mission. The Fire Department handed the deceased over to the Los Santos County Department of Coroner and the incident was given to the Los Santos Police Department to carry out investigations. All fire and rescue resources concluded operations and cleared from the incident as of 23:46. Drive team Firefighter Connor McMahon rests after the challenging recovery mission. For more information regarding the incident, contact the Los Santos Police Department's Media Relations and Community Affairs Division (MRCAD). You can visit there website by clicking here. Dispatched LSFD Units: E1, R1, RB1, RB2 Interested in joining the Los Santos Fire Department? Apply to be a firefighter/emergency medical technician/paramedic today at lsfd.sa.gov/recruitment
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