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Crap, Scott. Now you've gone and ruined it for Joel. He was having fun waiting to see if someone was going to suggest that HID is as good as superman's x-ray vision. And anyway, as long as he's keeping his eyes closed, he won't need a light. On Mon, 8 May 2000, Scott Landon wrote: > 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 > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > >
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