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He obviously read the ad Trout referred to.  Monkey see, monkey do.

Bill Lais, E.I. -  Engineer  II
Handex of Florida - Mt. Dora, Fl.
352/735-1800  ext. 166


		-----Original Message-----
		From:	TJFlahive@ao*.co* [SMTP:TJFlahive@ao*.co*]
		Sent:	Friday, February 19, 1999 2:57 AM
		To:	cavers@cavers.com
		Subject:	Re: ScubaPro Faux Pas

		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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