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Let's get a couple of things straight here. First, you
can see why I stay away from Compuserve - too many people who
have no clue. What makes techdiver good is that nonsense , like
what you just read, can not get by here.
For suit inflation: argon works best. If you mix it with
other gases it will not work as well. Argon is a slower-moving
molecule, and therefor conducts heat more slowly. Convoluting
you gases or your rig is strokery at its best. If you are
a diver, go diving and do it right. Otherwise, see option
number one.
The best bet is to vent your suit on the surface, fill it
with argon, vent it again, and then dive. The best insulation
is C-4 Thinsulate, unless you can get that with electric
heating (made in Canada for commercial and military applications).
The best bottle for suit inflation is the Luxfer 15 cu ft
at 2015 psi aluminum. Since you only need about five cu feet to
do a ten hour dive in Wakulla, you can do several dives on
wreck with one bottle. Since the pressure is low, it is easy to
refill. I carry two of the little bottles with me, and this will
generally make up to six dives. (Only dive with one)
Only a low pressure inflator should be hooked to the first
stage. If you keep the pressure at less than 2000, your chances of
reg failure are slim to none, the reason for using the low pressure
in the first place. I use a Poseiden regulator on my argon bottle,
since this failure can be a dive-ender.
If the drysuit intake valve fails, use the valve on the tank
to control the suit. This is why the bottle should be mounted
upside down where you can easily reach the tank valve. If you
blow the hose, get a transfusion from you buddy, who should be
rigged the same as you, in order to get through a deeper spot,
otherwise, you should be ok. I transfused Sankey in Wakulla the
other day, but he and I were only support diving, not cave diving.
It took only a few seconds to do it.
Doing things the right way is not all that tough. For the
strokes, until the pain of the pain is greater than the pain of
the change, they will not change. The pain is in the resistance to
the change, not in the change itself. This is why I enforce a
no-strokes policy with WKPP - I do not have time for the pain to
become great enough effect the change, at the cost of lost dives
or lost lives.
What I find really amazing is that all of you will take
information from me if you know who I am (someone who walks the walk),
but the weenies will always howl at me in response to the exact same
information when they don't know who I am. I would say that there is
something fundamentally wrong here - good information is good iinformation,
regardless of the dive log of the guy giving it. I get tons of good
info on here, and I have never asked the giver for a set of credentials.
- George
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