Scientific Diving Puns

I live in Florida and I'm currently signed up for a scuba diving class with my university. The college will allow me to get my open water certification, CPR, first aid and once completed with the course be a AAUS scientific diver in trainer.

It seems like a no-brainer since I've always have been interested in scuba and my degree is in Animal Biology. However, I've been searching for potential jobs once this is completed and I'm having a hard time finding anything. I saw a couple hull cleaning jobs, which I don't mind but only two appeared on my search. Are there other jobs out there you can do with scientific diving or will it be more of a hobby/research thing?

I'm looking to see if I can find any work with it part-time while I finish my degree and if there's any opportunities after I graduate as well. I'm new to scuba so don't know what the jobs are like and am having a hard time finding anything online.

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I'm planning to attend college with the University of Alaska and want to know which one has the best scientific diving program? My goal is to get a master's degree in biology/ecology. Ultimately I hope to participate in the United States Antarctic Program, which makes having scientific diving experience in Alaska valuable.

2 parter post. I just read online that the scientific diving course is only available to graduate biology students, is that information correct, or do they allow undergraduates? I’m doing the marine and aquatic bio track and was super stoked to take that course as an elective. On another note, I know UCF has a scuba club, but is there another group of students who like to go snorkel the springs around central florida? Looking for a dive buddy.

Hey everyone I am hoping to take Scientific Diving 1 this coming fall and was wondering if it fulfills a NS requirement or any requirements at all? I need 15 credits of science classes and was hoping I could take this

Hello! I am looking to get my AAUS scientific diving certification (I am a marine science graduate student). I was wondering if anyone could throw out a ballpark cost for receiving this? I can’t find anything online. I am NAUI open water certified so I would only be looking for the scientific diving course/check out dives. Any info helps. Thanks!

Hi Reddit,

I split most of my time between training scientists how to dive, organizing expeditions, and wrangling the scientists actually on those expeditions (read: herding cats). My main focus is coral-reef exploration, especially this incredible sweet-spot between 200 and 500 feet called “the twilight zone," more officially/specifically referred to as mesophotic coral ecosystems. While I’ve become a scientist through osmosis, my expertise is really in the technology and training required to make scientific exploration happen. That means I spend a lot of time playing with fancy high-tech tools such as mixed-gas closed circuit rebreathers and diver propulsion vehicles, and spend a lot more time doing decompression than actual exploration. I eat bananas underwater, have dreams of a roving research vessel, and am committed to advancing scientific exploration.

Some recent press on our twilight-zone team via Gizmodo and Scientific American, plus some extra underwater expedition and banana-eating footage here: https://vimeo.com/elliottjessup. I'm also on Twitter @scidiving

UPDATE: Thanks for all the questions, be back at 2pm PST to answer more questions, faster. (Had to start off slow due to scheduling, thanks for your patience!)

**UPDATE: Thanks again Reddit! I have to sign off for now, I'll try to sign on tomorrow to answer some more questions if my flight has wifi!

Hey people,

I am about to graduate from college and I am looking into future careers and one that I am interested in is Scientific Diving and Marine Bio. I was wondering if any of you knew how to get into a career like this or at least were to start? Please let me know.

Edit: Thanks everybody for your help it was very informative

I am interested in doing research dives in Antarctica, but am lost in how to go about pursuing this. Are there certain universities or diving schools one would need to attend?

I assume a degree in marine biology or similar science background would be helpful. I am about halfway through a biology degree but will likely have to transfer my credits to another university eventually to graduate due to a recent move. I also just recently got my recreational diving certification through NAUI.

I've had a long held interest in doing something more with my diving than just purely recreational. Does anyone know how one gets involved in scientific or archeological diving? I'm open to any and all ideas, what companies organise that kind of stuff?

Hello!

I am looking for a good Scientific Diving cert program that would take on an ambitious, aspiring Maritime Archaeologist. I just graduated with my undergrad degree in Archaeology, and I'm trying to find a Scientific Diving course in the US or Canada. Does anybody have any recommendations? I'm a PADI Master Diver btw. Secondly to this, is anybody looking to hire a qualified diver for archaeological work?

Hello!

First post on the sub here, bc I'm looking for advice. I'm a few days away from purchasing a full set of scuba gear for use primarily as a tool for scientific diving. I need to purchase:

• BCD
• Regulator (International or DIN w yoke adaptor)
• Octopus
• Pressure Gauge
• Depth gauge or comp
• Compass
• Surface marker buoy with spool or reel
• Pocket mask
• Dive knife

I already have a mask, fins, snorkel, booties, flashlight, etc. I don't really know what to look for for BCDs. I don't think I want one of the classic rental "jacket style" ones that have air in the front and back, I'm deciding between a back-inflate and a BP&W system. I've used a back-inflate before, but not a BP&W. I'm definitely comfortable with the back inflate system, but i'm worried about the lack of modularity w the system. I like the fact that it can have integrated weights, as I'm not a huge fan of weight belts. If I'm planning on doing a lot of scientific diving in the future (I'm a college student hoping to work for NOAA or some such in the future), I'm not sure how much the back-inflate will limit me in terms of adaptability to more technical diving. With the BP&W system, I like the fact that its very flexible in its set up - it seems like if I want to buy a rig I'd want it to be able to be useable in the most situations. However, I'm not sure how the weight system works on a backplate/wing system. My friends who use that set up use a weight belt, which is a slight drawback in my eyes. Are there other ways of carrying weights besides the weight belt? I've never dove w one before either, which makes me a little hesitant buying something I have no experience with. However, it seems like the BP&W system is something I'll be using in the future, so part of me thinks I should jump right into it.

For the regulator, I got a recommendation for the Aqua Lung Mikron. I like the fact that it's compact, bc I figure the less bulk I have in my system the better. I'll probably get this for my primary reg unless people have other recommendations.

For the Octo, I'm thinking it should be something from Aqua lung as there's less of a chance of a compatibility issue w my first stage. I've heard good things about the Calypso/Titan octo, but that's just from browsing the internet. Would like some advice as to what octo to get.

For the air pressure/depth/compass system. The program I'm diving with rn supplies my dive computer, so I'd like to have pressure/depth/compass ind

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> So how can we tackle this issue of understanding risk better, and putting it into perspective? One interesting and useful way is to use the "Micromort" - a one-in-a-million chance of death - as a unit of risk to help with comparisons between risky events.

> If something exposes you to a micromort of risk, this means it exposes you to a one-in-a-million chance of dying.

> According to world experts on the subject, skydiving increases your risk of dying by approximately eight to nine micromorts per jump.

> Interestingly, marathon running, an activity probably considered healthy, also increases your risk of dying by approximately seven micromorts per run.

> You would only have to ride a motorcycle for 10km to expose you to the same risk of dying, which puts into perspective how much riskier riding a motorbike is.

> You would have to travel for more than 10,000km to be exposed to a micromort of risk.

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I'm super excited to have just finished my scientific diving qualifications for UC Santa Cruz! This is known as one of the more rigorous sci diving programs on the west coast (only definitively second after Humbolt). The class consisted of 4 full days in the pool, 10 training dives, and then 6 final dives as a practical. The practical took place in one of the few accessible spots in big sur, where we camped and dived for 4 days. The final two dives took data that are going into a long-term dataset for the area. In addition to our normal gear, we had to carry a 30cmx30cm quadrat, a meter bar, a 30m meter tape, and a 10 foot chain. This all had to be clipped off while we crawled through endless piles of merciless giant kelp, and then we had to work through a thick understory of Pterogophyra once we got to the bottom.

Next week, I am starting some work for a local graduate student to do seagrass transplant experiments in a local estuary. We will be diving in low-vis waters, running transcects and transplanting seagrasses.

If anybody has any questions about scientific diving, and the taskloading it includes, feel free to ask! Here's a picture of our dive class, I'm fifth from the right with the tall hair and blue jacket.

Ah yes, ADC— the forbidden role. I was never one for farming all game and playing lane safe to scale just to be ran down by the fed Darius or absolutely one shot with no counter play by the mid-lane Zed. I always gravitated toward assassins, something that is always rewarding to play since there is always that poor squishy on the enemy team that strays too far from the group and so has to play half the game with their color turned off. Watching xfsn saber and snipeyoce play Kai'sa and dominate games like nobody could touch 'em was what motivated me to try out this champ, and as fate would have it, fall in love with her kit and her design. Something about properly isolating your q's and hitting your w skillshot feels so rewarding to play as opposed to say tristana or missfortune smacking your enemies with right clicks. No offense.

So the focus of this post— void Seeker (W), by itself, oddly has one of the weakest base damages in the whole game, only doing 130 damage at max rank. Fortunately, Kai’sa’s w derives damage from not one or 2, but 4 sources to produce the 2 shotting ability damage we see in-game. These 4 sources are (1) base dmg, (2) AD 130%, (3) AP 70%, and (4) Second Skin passive, which has both base damage (scaling with champ lvl) and a secondary AP ratio. Both the Second Skin base damage and AP ratio depend on the number of stacks already on the target ranging from 0 - 2.

Base: 130

AD scaling 130%

AP scaling 70%

To better visualize how Kai’sa’s passive works in terms of damage, look at the chart below. (LVL 18)

1 stack: 16 + 15% AP

2 stacks: 16 + 8 + 17.5% AP

3 stacks: 16 + 8 + 8 + 20% AP

4 stacks: 16 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 22.5% AP

5 stacks: 16 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 25% AP

The first time a stack is added, it just does 16 + 15% AP. When a second stack is added it does 16 + 8 + 15% AP + 2.5% AP and the pattern continues. Now you can think of Kai’sa’s W as adding 3 stacks in quick succession. (although it is really instant in-game).

If the target doesn’t already have any stacks the total W damage derived from kai’sa’s Second skin passive will just be 1 stack plus 2 stacks plus 3 stacks. If the target has 1 stack to start, the total damage from second skin will be 2 stacks plus 3 stacks plus 4 stacks. If the target has 2 stacks to start, the total damage will be 3 stacks plus 4 stacks plus 5 stacks (detonating her missing health passive after adding the 5th stack)

Here are the simplified total W damages based on prior stacks:

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I’ve been diving for a few years and have come to understand that at times diving “knowledge” boils down to personal preference. However, in the case of sawtooth profiles (re-descending some amount after ascending some amount during a dive), most divers are of the opinion that diving this way is a very bad practice. I understand that 1) sawtooth profiles cause some folks to have issues with their sinuses, 2) sawtooth profiles are exceedingly difficult to calculate without a dive computer, and that 3) at all times, one should ascend slowly to reduce the likelihood of decompression sickness but aside from these considerations, why do divers conclude that sawtoothing is a dangerous practice? My background in physics makes me believe that descending simply increases nitrogen loading rates and cumulative loading and ascending rate are the key considerations and these don’t change if your profile is a sawtooth. A variant of this convention is waiting 30 mins at the surface between dives – what happens to the body during this 30 mins? Finally, after a recent reef dive, I was told that I wasn’t allowed to do a few free dives (to something like 20 feet) because I was nitrogen loaded and therefore I would be making uncontrolled ascents. This seems counterintuitive to me – I was already off-gassing at 1 ATM and would incur minimal additional nitrogen during my free dives to 20 feet. In any case, I’m interested to hear if anybody has scientific information on why sawtooth profiles are worse than traditional dive profiles. Hopefully this will be educational for other folks as well.

I read the course information online and it says spots go to undergrad last, and I imagine even then the priority is biology/ecology students. Do other students ever get into the class? I am transferring in as an engineering student but I have done biology field-work before and used to dive professionally as well. I have always wanted to get scientific diving certificate and be able to do research diving :)

Hello all! first post in this sub! So im a junior in college and am going to be taking a scientific diving course in mid May due to the fact that im a marine bio major. Im super pumped for it, but what can i expect? Born and raised San Diegan with a love for the ocean and am a strong swimmer. Any advise would also be much appreciated! Thanks!

Hello everyone! Today, I am here to ask for help from the community. As per title, for the purpose of scientific research and conservation activities (my post history can vouch for this), I need to create a mailing list containing dive schools and/or fishing/angler societies in countries that border the Mediterranean Sea and countries of the West coast of Africa that border the Atlantic Ocean.

Ideally, the list is to be complete but, of course, one works with what they have or can get, so some compromise is to be expected, for instance:

• For countries (i.e. Spain) where the number of addresses is very high, the more popular regions such as the islands and the coast take priority.
• For countries (i.e. Algeria) where there will be only a few, it is important for the list to be as complete as possible.

The point is to reach as many people as possible in every country matching the description above.

If you know of any datasets where I can find this info, or have part of what I need and are in a position to share it, please let me know.