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Scuba Forum / UK Scuba / February 2005Killer Gnomes
Following on from the Lobster thread, what about killer gnomes? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/4263761.stm > Following on from the Lobster thread, what about killer gnomes? > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/4263761.stm How much deco do you think these gnomes build up? Maybe they only go to 50m+ at certain times in the day, and spend the rest of the time at 6m. :) Tim > How much deco do you think these gnomes build up? > > Maybe they only go to 50m+ at certain times in the day, and spend the > rest of the time at 6m. Well, they've probably built up many months of deco by now, but doesn't DCI only become a problem once you start to ascend? Therefore you could argue that it would be unethical to recover the gnomes from depth without allowing them to complete all deco stops... I can just imagine the police divers visiting every week to move them another metre up the side of the lake! David >> How much deco do you think these gnomes build up? >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Well, they've probably built up many months of deco by now, but doesn't DCI > only become a problem once you start to ascend? These are saturation gnomes. They would have only taken a couple of days to clear. I expect the ones the police divers removed from 45m were bent to blazes. Actually I'm surprised that they bothered. If people are going to put gnomes at 45m and you take them away they will put some more back. When the English do something daft they stick with it like glue. We have a great love for the eccentric. nigelH > >> How much deco do you think these gnomes build up? > >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > nigelH I'm sure the Receiver of Wreck doesn't have jurisdiction in freshwater, a pity. I'd have loved to have seen them cataloguing (sp?) all the gnomes. :) Tim >I'm sure the Receiver of Wreck doesn't have jurisdiction in freshwater, >a pity. I'd have loved to have seen them cataloguing (sp?) all the >gnomes. > >:) >Tim Now that sounds like an idea ..... Just imagine 200 Plus gnomes turning up somewhere popular .... I plan to do about 30 dives this year .... take 2 gnomes per dive... ;) Telephone call to RoW mid October at the end of the season ...... The Sun News Paper by Next Christmas >> How much deco do you think these gnomes build up? >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >David Unless their internal cavities were filled with oxygenated flourocarbons before they went into the abyss!  SignaturePeter R Cook According to various conspiracy sites on the net, the gnomes were actually destroyed by an escaped colony of giant tasmanian freshwater lobsters (see http://www.lobsters.tascom.net/ ) who rendered them down into dust before reforming them into snooker balls. The story about the police confiscating the garden ornaments was just put about to avoid the panic and terror that would spread through the diving community if it became known that such dangerous and destructive creatures were on the loose! As far as I know, the only involvement of police divers occurred when the local council decided to serve an Anti-Social Behaviour Order on the lobsters. Remember - you heard it here first. > Following on from the Lobster thread, what about killer gnomes? > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/4263761.stm > According to various conspiracy sites on the net, the gnomes were actually > destroyed by an escaped colony of giant tasmanian freshwater lobsters (see [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/4263761.stm I know some of the guys who put the original gnomes in place. They started out deeper, and then when people started to try and visit them on air, they decided to move them shallower so that they wouldn't have to worry about people killing themseleves looking for the gnomes. I guess they may have put them back in the original spot now... |
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