Theft of stage bottle at Ginnie

Hi J,

You say clipped to the line, so was this supposed thief a diver too?

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Originally Posted by Johnsreef

One time I came out of Devils earlier than expected and found my O2 bottle missing. Glad i had no deco. Found the guy that had it, and got into it with him. He said it was just laying there(no it was clipped to the line) I asked if his car was just laying around in the the parking lot. I had him removed for the park. Idiots will always continue to reproduce LOL

Cave Diving with a disability, I felt that my crutches that were clipped to my guideline at little river was safe. NOT!!! soon found myself laying my doubles down in the spring, hopping on one leg, mad and screaming profanities at some inbreed he returned my crutches so I could get to my truck.

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For some folks it's mainly ignorance. It's easy to forget that a lot of open water divers don't know anything about decompression, or why there might be a (to them) loose tank sitting in the entrance to a cave.

And some folks are just a buttmunch.

One would hope that most folks, if they did take the tank, would think that someone just left it and at least turned it in at the store. Of course that wouldn't help you on your deco when you get back to the entrance.

Kind of like someone pulling out our line from the entrance to a spring to see what kind of fish we were catching.

Maybe we need to put signs on our deco tanks?!

Something like, "Removing this tank could result in the death of a diver."

And in small print... "that diver might be you."

On the bottom of my deco cylinder, is written in sharpie, "Please don't steal. (the government hates competition)"

So far it seems to be working :)