Trip Hop

At a guess I would say that it was possibly the Drum & Base night that I've seen promoted on one of the Ao Nang facebook pages over the last month or so? That genre of music being common with their age group.

I'd accept that his principles appear to be a lot higher than the rest. Far from whiter than white though!

As someone who advocates its use providing it is in a controlled and respectable manner, I have to agree with you. They have done themselves no favours in the way that they have allowed it to be openly promoted.

Nope, just a load of tree huggers, ecologists and environmentalists to keep happy plus OTT compensation to those affected. Then there's the contractors that appear to be treating it like an open cheque book with specifications that make you feel like we've all been doing it wrong for the last 40 years and maybe longer. Plus I ain't cheap you know!

You haven’t a clue have you? Your first point above I clarified in a separate post if you had taken the time to read? Now I’ll take the time to educate you on your 2nd. The first stage valve reduces the pressure from the tank to an intermediate pressure but it is not constant and will vary depending on depth and the compression hence placed on the tank itself (which I have already proved). The 2nd stage (or demand valve - the clue is in this term) simply consists of a diaphragm which is is either open or closed. It actually has no real regulating purpose as you suggest. The diaphragm in its action has to be well balanced in the sense that it needs to avoid being free flowing at the surface but also avoid being too hard to open when at depth due to the extra pressure exerted on it. This is one of the main factors as to why you consume more air at depth as the 2nd stage is basically a gate which allows a volume of air through as you open it. When at depth this volume is denser and more concentrated though due to the compression on the tank (which was filled at surface pressure) If this wasn’t the case why would air bubbles increase in size as they float to the surface?

Apologies but idiots with no sense of reality bring out the worst in me. They simply don’t warrant courtesy.

Not another one. GCE's not GCSE's in my day. Got 2 degrees in engineering as well as a successful business that I have been running for the last 25 years. Provides a nice lifestyle and puts me in the top 5th percentile of earners in my country too. So much for your so called fantasy eh?

You really don’t know just how glad I am to hear that as I’m just off for some fish and chips with my elderly father.

Not matter how much it hurts inside, give it up man!

Give over man, are you suggesting that some know-it-all on AseanNow knows more than a Bangkok lawyer with 40 years experience? Go and find something better to do with your life than trying to bait and troll people.

Not really except that I thought to post the whole text would be too much? You clearly doubted my claim and even went to the extent of trying to belittle me by accusing me of a posting an unsourced claim. I have in return clearly proved to you the contrary, period. Whilst you quote the above text to try and save face, it is taken partially out of context in that my original quote of. "However, there is another section of Thai law that applies to this situation which is that when this is a small family business he is allowed to take care of his family. So in practice, normally no work permit is enforced", comes after what you have quoted above and therefore somewhat implies overarching principles? I have already stated in my original post that even my lawyer brother-in-law has said that me carrying out a full time task would cause issues but occasional small help would not, so why are you nit-picking?

Is that humble pie I see you eating? And how is it unsourced when it has come from a Bangkok lawyer with near 40 years experience?

Apologies regarding my earlier post, I was actually searching regarding digital nomads needing a work visa when I came across it and it's actually on the Thai Embassy website where it reads: However, there is another section of Thai law that applies to this situation which is that when this is a small family business he is allowed to take care of his family. So in practice, normally no work permit is enforced. It can be found here under the section Other Related Cases. https://www.thaiembassy.com/thailand/thailand-digital-nomad-visa-and-work-permit

I think you should too, as well as your diving theory? The following taken from the first reference that I could quickly find: Simply put-as a diver goes deeper into the water, the pressure on everything becomes greater. The volume of air in the dive tanks is getting smaller while the pressure rises. Remember from the basics that you can compress air. The link is here: https://www.greaterclevelandaquarium.com/diving-physics/#:~:text=Simply put-as a diver,becomes compressed when at depth.

The crew of the Titan submersible might beg to differ with you on this one Einstein?

The brother-in-law told me about it but I also came across it not so long back when researching it online. I haven't got time to look for it myself right now but if you have, it can be found on the website of either Siam Legal or a similar website. If I get time later to find it myself, I will post it.

Totally correct in that if you are married, there is a not very well known law that states you are allowed to help in a small family run business without a work permit in order to provide for your family. The issue is how the local BIB or immigration interpret this and whether someone if charged, would have access to a honourable lawyer to fight the case on its merits and not just see it as a meal ticket with no care for the outcome? My lawyer brother-in-law once told me that me helping to clear up after hours or occasionally carrying a bag of rice or similar for my other half in her roadside cafe/restaurant in the suburbs will not be a problem although waiting tables full time would. I'll be honest though in stating that I wouldn't want to test it in your average bar/restaurant in the centre of a tourist hotspot.

Ooh, hark at you? It would help if you had some knowledge of what you were talking about and a sense of reality before making such a crass suggestion? Hence the opening comment! My father always taught me that if I had nothing sensible to say, say nothing; and you could obviously learn from this? Social inferiority eh? From your obvious ignorance and lack of real world experience, which is profound from your initial comment, I would be taking a long look in the mirror before suggesting this of others. Just FYI though I don't have any trouble jetting back and forth the US with work when I need to, so I doubt that anything Thailand brings in will have any effect on me.

If you read my other post you would have seen that I clarified this position in that whilst it is compressed it does not suffer from the additional compression created by the tank being at depth. Hence why using conventional scuba you will always burn more air the deeper you go.

Are you for real? Enhanced DBS are only available to employers and registered organisations that can justify their need. Do you honestly think that the UK is going to release that kind of data in to the hands of a country that ranks fairly low on the least corruption index and wouldn't know what data protection is if it fell on one of their heads?

From 6 metres, no chance. Explain how I never suffered an embolism when as a kid we used to dive to touch the bottom of the 6m deep diving pool at the local swimming pool? Additionally and whilst not advisable I've also seen plenty of dive students having breathed compressed air, panic and bolt to the surface without exhaling from a bit deeper than that and never suffered an embolism. Maybe I should have explained in a bit more detail in that the air is tank supplied and compressed but at surface pressure so it doesn't suffer the same additional compression as if the tank was at the same depth as the user? However, you still might want to check up on your physics as the pressure in water is linear with depth and therefore you will get the same percentage of expansion/compression going from say 10m to 7m as you would from 3m to the surface. Boyle's Law is a linear equation (P1.V1=P2.V2) and therefore your claim regarding it being more important closer to the surface is a total load of tosh as it's all based on the pressure difference between the 2 points (depths) in the water.

It's definitely a nice feeling when you get your buoyancy just right enabling you to do this.

The system is known as Snuba (or a variation of this) and has been around for about 20 years. Quite safe at 6m depth even at with fast ascents due to the air being surface supplied and not compressed. At this depth, no risk of the bends either unless they were down there for an unimaginable time whereby hypothermia would most probably have set in first. There should be a divemaster keeping an eye on them though.

The air is surface supplied i.e. not compressed and therefore there will be little or no expansion upon ascent, so no worry of pulmonary barotrauma. At the 6m they will be diving at, there will not be enough pressure for there to be a worry of a build up of nitrogen bubbles in the joints and therefore your suggestion of possible decompression sickness i.e. the bends is rather ludicrous. The system that they are using is called Snuba (or a variation of it), has been around for about 20 years and is quite safe for use at 6m for these exact reasons.

I flew in December with EVA whilst carrying some cordless power tools. After researching their conditions thoroughly, they will not allow any lithium batteries in the hold (even if attached) unless it is pre-cleared with them. Therefore the actual tools went in the hold in a suitcase and I carried the batteries (72Wh each) in my hand luggage in li-po bags. The li-po bags were not a stated requirement by them but I did it to avoid any possible hassle at security.