Boy , we never see those kinds of temps or runtimes around here.  Must be 
REAL tough on a rebreather.

At 07:58 AM 2/5/2000 +1100, Bruce Stewart wrote:
>Breif Report Pearse Resurgence Trip New Zealand
>
>During January 8th thru 15th a team of three divers
>Dave  Apperly, Tim Cashman and Mike Collins
>dived the Pearse resurgence in the South Island
>New Zealand to a depth of -125 mts and found the
>cave continues deeper and longer.
>
>After a number of dives and installation of a habitat
>for deco Dave Apperly left the end of the line at
>- 125mts and + 50 mts horizontal from the previous
>dives done last year by Australian divers Chriss Brown
>Grahame Elliot and David Doolette.
>
>The cave continues in a number of directions and also
>goes deeper at the end of the line to over 160 mts.
>The divers had to put up with waters temps around
>6 deg C and run times of up to 134 mins to attain this
>new record.
>
>Inspiration rebreathers where used by DA and TC,
>and MC used open circuit reaching a depth of 101mts.
>More details later.
>
>Bruce Stewart
>
>PS Please don't reply I will not be answering any questions.
>
>Bruce Stewart
>Triton Diving Equipment
>www.triton-dive.com
>


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