Posted on 06/25/2007 6:03:31 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
Washington, D.C. (Jun 22, 2007 16:51 EST) The purpose of this advisory is to provide situational awareness to the scuba industry regarding behavior that may indicate an individual(s) is involved in nefarious activity.
The following threat indicators, taken in isolation, generally reflect legitimate recreational and commercial activities. In combination with other information, they can indicate possible links to criminal behavior. Please note, the below indicators are not an all inclusive list, these indicators represent a baseline that could possibly indicate suspicious behavior.
Training Indicators
Requests for specialty training, including odd inquiries that are inconsistent with recreational diving. These may include:
Requests to dive in murky water or sewer pipes.
Inquires about procedures such as diver towing.
Requests to learn advanced skills associated with combat swimming, including:
Use of re-breathers and diver propulsion vehicles (DPVs).
Deep diving.
Conducting kick counts.
Receiving extra navigation training.
Requests for advanced diver training by applicants from countries where diving is not a common recreational activity. Similarly, training sponsored by groups or agencies such as religious organizations, cults, associations, or charitable agencies not normally associated with diving.
Potentially Suspicious Equipment Purchases or Rentals
Volume purchasing inquires related to Swimmer Delivery Vehicles (SDVs) and Diver Propulsion Vehicles (DPVs). SDVs are very expensive vehicles normally used for specialized military purposes, and usually are not available to recreational divers. Efforts to purchase DPVs, the more commonly available civilian counterpart to SDVs, could be associated with extending the range or payload capacity or a combat swimmer team.
Other Indicators:
Paying cash for diving instruction.
Refusal or reluctance to provide personal information.
Recipients are requested to report suspicious or criminal activity to their local FBI Office.
"Best sewer pipe dives" is my favorite segment on "The Divers Down Show'.
I didn’t think Muzzies liked water...
Did they forget the Muslim tag on purpose again?
“The following threat indicators, taken in isolation, generally reflect legitimate recreational and commercial activities. In combination with other information, they can indicate possible links to criminal behavior.”
You left out one item:
Shoving Amnesty Down America’s collective throat.
....which wold put Congress on this list.....
They don’t. Remember what happened to the wicked witch of Oz?
Same reason.
Diverse divers.
Al Qaeda issues for calls for scuba divers FIVE/SIX years ago.....
And FBI issues and advisory now....
Ah, welcome to the party??
bump
All this and we don’t have a fence on our borders? Sounds like the cart before the horse.
You bring up an interesting point: perhaps we should end discussion of security measures altogether until the wall is built. /s
“I didn’t think Muzzies liked water...”
No, it’s soap that they stay away from.
Or deodorant.
The scenery must be something to behold in a sewer.
Sewer pipes is pretty easy to fix. Just mix some pig feces in the water.
The rest of it sounds silly. I received training on most of this (except sewer pipes) as part of a normal class. Perhaps if they secured the border it would help.
Dive training is available world wide so putting further restrictions on us isn’t gonna help.
Diving in that kinda water isn’t much to see. I’m guessing you can’t see much of anything. You also have to have a dry suit, full face mask, and all kinds of other protection to keep yourself safe from the nasties in the water.
Diving in the Florida Keys is MUCH more fun.
“You bring up an interesting point: perhaps we should end discussion of security measures altogether until the wall is built. /s”
Perhaps we should stop spying on citizens and focus on the real threat.
Yeah. Remember all the strange occurances in the Bay Bridge tunnel...like explosives? Of course, there was “no indication of terrorist activity” then.
I seen the sarcasm tag so I know where you’re coming from. I’m not a one issue person but this stuff just gets me. We have the FBI taking time to warn scuba divers but we can’t see the biggest issue, that being we need a fence.
Oh well, those folks in D.C. are smarter than me.
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