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From: "Scott Landon" <js_landon@ho*.co*>
To: joeldm@mi*.co*, kevin@nw*.co*, js_landon@ho*.co*,
     armantrout@mc*.co*
Cc: cavers@cavers.com
Subject: Re: another stupid question..LOL
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 13:45:28 PDT
at some point as things clear, no-vis turns into bad vis or low vis.  how 
long do you want to not see in the bad vis?  an extra few minutes?  of 
course nothing helps in no-vis.  it is that transition out of no-vis that 
matters or the general low vis to start.


>From: Joel Markwell <joeldm@mi*.co*>
>To: Kevin Connell <kevin@nw*.co*>, Scott Landon <js_landon@ho*.co*>,   
>      <armantrout@mc*.co*>
>CC: <cavers@cavers.com>
>Subject: Re: another stupid question..LOL
>Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 15:43:23 -0500
>
>on 5/8/00 2:17 PM, Kevin Connell at kevin@nw*.co* wrote:
>
> > I've seen the HID in both high vis, low vis and almost no-vis.
> >
> > It is a much tighter, more effective beam in all cases.
>
>An interesting reply. Clearly you weren't responding to me since I didn't
>mention low-vis except to indicate that it might be effective there. What I
>did indicate was that I have never seen a light that can penetrate a total
>siltout of the kind described.
>
>Are you also saying that this light can penetrate, to a useful degree, 
>total
>silt-out conditions such as one might find in a low-flow cave zapped with
>deep silt/clay and/or narrow crawl-throughs, same conditions, low-flow, 
>deep
>silt/clay?
>
>Tighter, more effective, sure, I agree, incredibly so. If you can afford 
>it,
>dive with it. Rely on it for what it is and what it can do.
>
>Please clarify.
>
>Later,
>
>JoeL
>

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