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  • gb Chris W

  • # PADI Advanced Open Water
  • Qualifications:

    PADI Enriched Air Diver Speciality (Nitrox)

  • Dived in: Egypt, United Kingdom

Instant slushies and coldwater free flows

by Chris W on June 30, 2013

This morning as I was quickly clicking through my feed of links to articles, videos and blogs automatically scraped from the web for me I came across this gem of wisdom on the LifeHacker website : http://lifehacker.com/turn-soda-into-a-slushie-with-no-special-equipment-615649907

The video demonstrates how cooling carbonated drinks while sealed in their containers to near to their freezing point, then releasing the pressure turns the still liquid contents into instant frozen slush.Firstly - Thats really cool!  (pun intended)...  But secondly - it also works as a great visual reminder perhaps why we need to be aware of the dangers of cold-water freeflow. ...

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Are we all smurfs?

by Chris W on January 16, 2013

Ok... time to pose a question...Why are the majority of drysuit glove systems blue???With the exception of my daughter who does actually dive in a two tone blue drysuit, pretty much everone else I know goes for variants around black. Personally I dive in black with a smattering of yellow and generally look like an aquatic wasp..  but even in my most boring suit, I have nothing that goes with bright blue hands.I'm usually the first to snigger at the colour co-ordinated, ink still damp on the OW cert squad for who its more about the esthetic rather than the experience, but in this instance I can't help being a fashion victim.Put me out of my misery - is there some scientific / historic...

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