Recent content by Ragnorak

Considering you've formed an opinion and then changed it based on the opinions of one poster and your own mis-conceptions, then I find it a bit disconcerting that it seems I'm being told not to counter those opinions. Even if I find those opinions to be contrary to my own. Once apon a time I...

My answers still remain the same. So here are my comments to your Facebook repost. It ceratainly is. But just because you are fit doesn't mean you have the strength, endurance or where with all to do the job over a 12 hour day. The safe diving impovements in the current modern day industry...

The company obviously supplies the boat. Perhaps this can be considered akin to the worksite if you're a builder for example. Or the aircraft if we want to keep with the aviation industry analogy. When I was in the water the company supplied the steel rings, netting and cord to make your own...

Like I've said you already seem to have made up your mind.

That's what I have been saying.

With what you've quoted me on it's not about what side 4 Corners have taken. My comments were with regards to how dismissive people in this country can be of the ABC as being "left wing journalists". Especially if they don't like the way something has been reported. Again I agree with the main...

I'll repsond to some of Dave's comments; Oxgen is carried on board. It is used on those dives when staging at 10 metres is required. Considering that a trip to sea averages 8 days then yes there is more than enough carried onboard. Rough days for a diver isn't something to be too concerned...

I'd thank you to not attribute to me comments that I have not made. Please check the remarks that you are attributing to me as my quoted comment before you bundle them into a quote. To answer your comment; the 4 Corners programme is produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC...

My condolences for your loss. To answer question 1, I'd say yes. To question 2 I'd have to say no. Unfortunately I don't think focusing more on the rescue and resuscitation side is going to be as practical as focusing on a more intensive drift diving induction.

Some more sloppy commenting from you? Why is it that I am accused of being cranky when I am simply stating that there is misinformation in this thread on the ins and outs of drifting. I mean there wasn't even a clear idea on how divers are contracted for a season and not full time employees.

The industry moved pretty quickly in the 1990s, so hopefully they'll do it again. How do you qualify that comment. Or is it just a knee jerk reaction? Something that you seem to be implying I'm guilty of. The Fisheries side of it certainly is. Especially with regards to quotas. Though the drift...

Considering the amount of misinformation in this thread as to what exactly drift diving is, I'm not sureprised that anyone thinks that the 4 Corners report is bad journalism. Hopefully this 4 Corners story gets Paspaley to review their drift diving procedures now instead of waiting 2 to 3 years...

Edit: The report was detailed enough to allow for specualation that Paspaley may have been negligent in their duty of care. From your comments here and here you seem to have already made up your mind. 4 Corners has been taken to task over it's 40 year history but it still attempts to...

The open water certification is the same that recreational divers use. Unless standards have changed over the years I didn't think too much of the open water and advanced open water courses run by PADI. No I haven't. I have noted that there is an industry induction course and that even the...

The 80 Mile Beach is where the pearling companies take their anually aloted quota of shell from the wild. After seeding the shell are moved away to each company's farming areas.