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Hello y'all,
I order to keep the thread going on TEK'96, I add my two cents.
I couldn't get to TEK until Sunday because of the stormy weather
in the East which delayed my flight from California by one day.
I managed to attend the session on videoproduction which was good.
It looks like the Sony digital 1000 is the way to go over betacam
because of cost, but the editing equipment is not available for
the 1000. Using the 1000 in the playback mode to download it to
betacam or Hi8 is a solution.
I took the Mark V experience in the UNO pool....cost $45.
It was near the end of the day and I was the last person. Jim Boyd
and friends bolted me into the suit and breastplate and added
the weightbelt and lead ankle weights. The tightening of the
crotch strap was a major undertaking. They had me singing soprano
at the end! They took pictures of me in the classical pose with
the family jewels smashed up under my chin and the Mark V helmet
setting on my lap. Finally, the helmet went on and I was ushered
to the ladder and carefully helped into the water with 190 pounds
of added weight. I sank like a rock to the bottom and adjusted
the air flow valve and exhaust valve until the breastplate rose
slightly off my shoulders. I walked around the pool bottom watching
other divers in the Uwatec Draeger rebreathers. I closed the
helmet exhaust and blew myself to the surface a few times. Got
pretty good at establishing neutral buoyancy and floated in midwater.
They say that this is the way to protect out reefs! At one point,
I was standing on the bottom looking at the scenery and suddenly
was a knock, knock, knock on my helmet. I turned my head to the
right and saw a beautiful blonde peering through the right port.
She mimicked someone taking a photo and pointed to my left. There
was an UW photographer pointing a house camera at us. The blonde
put her arm around me, and I put my arm around her waist. God,
I thought I had died and gone to heaven! The blonde took off
her mask as her beautiful hair floated in the water next to
my helmet. She removed her mouthpiece and kissed my helmet,
as the photographer clicked away. I could not see the blonde's
fins or lower part of her body because she was wearing a toga
made from a hotel bedsheet. Boy....what a way to go! Anyway,
the photographer was from Aquacorp Magazine and if the photo
is worthy it may appear in Aquacorp magazine....be watching!
Norman Thomas
UC-LLNL
P.O.Box 808 L-350
Livermore,CA 94551
(510) 422-0486
Email: norman@cm*.ll*.go*
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