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In a message dated 99-02-02 11:18:03 EST, you write:

<< I was at the local dive shop filling tanks the other day, and to kill
the
 time was reading the Jan/Feb issue of Discover Diving.  On pages 2 and 3 is
 a big ad for the ScubaPro Mk20/G500 regulator.  In the ad, there is a he
 man macho looking model type dude shown using this reg on what appears to
 be a ScubaPro 95 with an H valve.  Unfortunately, only one port has a reg
 on it.
 
 Could someone please tell ScubaPro that diving with an uncovered outlet is
 not a good idea. >>

This reminds me of an event that I witnessed about a year ago at Arch Sink in
Hudson.  I had just come up from a dive and there were three guys suiting up
for a dive.  They all had doubles and at first glance, looked like they knew
what they were doing.  I had started to break down my gear when I saw one of
them having a little trouble getting down. I decided to stick around a while
to see how things went.  About 5 minutes into their dive,a dome of water and
bubbles at least two feet high erupted in the basin. Shortly after that, one
of the divers surfaced with an air leak that sounded like a jet taking off.
It finally subsided and he got out of the water.  It was then when I saw that
he was diving a manifold with only one regulator attached!  He had been going
through the entrance to the dome room and had hit ceiling with the valve
without the reg on it and opened the valve. The bubbles from it had knocked
his mask off and emptied his tank by the time he surfaced.  Needless to say, I
went up one side of him and then down the other.  It turns out (as best I can
remember) only one of them was cavern or cave certified.

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