What is the scrubber packing procedure, or is it variable as well?

RMC

-----Original Message-----
From: KVI [mailto:kirvine@sa*.ne*]
Sent: Saturday, December 26, 1998 6:26 AM
To: mike bruic
Cc: techdiver; cavers@cavers.com; freeattic@co*.ci*.uf*.ed*; Jess
Armantrout; Bill Mee
Subject: Re: Tales From The Dark Side #3 ("Hey", who turned out the
lights???)


Mike, do any of these guys actually know anything?

mike bruic wrote:
> 
> 
> Tales From The Dark Side #3 ("Hey" who turned out the lights)
> 
> Rest easy everyone, today I am not going to make you go to the "little
> shop of horrors" web page. Instead, we will take a brief look at "one"
> usdct training dive (there will be several more to come, trust me <g>)
> On a recent training dive, a group of four usdct RB divers were
> practicing open circuit Heliox loop flush's. Before the dive
> commenced, the divers all lined up to receive their little goodies of
> 02 and Helium (kind'a like little trick-or-treaters do at your front
> door on Halloween, but their parents always checked the candy first).
> None of them (not one) even bothered to analyze the mix they were just
> handed before they went diving. It would also seem that none of them
> had a clue to the minimum safe depth for their mix since step one was
> by-passed. Once the dive started, our hero Jason proceeded to
> demonstrate to the rest of the team how quickly, and efficiently he
> could flush his loop on open circuit mix before going "hypoxic",
> blacking out, and then floating to the surface like dynamited catfish.
> 
> Now we are going to give "you" the readers a chance to participated in
> a online poll (vote) #1. How many of you would dive a bottle of any
> mix before you, "yourself" analyzed it??? #2 How many of you would
> take someone else's word for the mix content without verifying it
> yourself??? #3 How many of you would do a mix dive with someone who
> doesn't analyze their mix??? Well, while the judges are out on that
> one, we'll give you a little clue for tomorrows post, #4 (not tonight
> honey, I have a headache).
> 
> Mike Bruic

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