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At 4:01 PM 1/30/96, <HeyyDude@ao*.co*> wrote:

> Carl, and WW...
>
> Geezmo....  You take a hypothetical, and turn it around so now it looks like
> I am advocating unsafe diving, or worse yet, that I am an unsafe diver.

no one said that...your hypothetical was an unsafe scenario and we reacted
appropriately...YOU set the stage


> Put a sock in it, dudes.  You're like a crabby wife, turning an argument
> around so that the husband is the bad guy.

don't you mean like an unreasonable husband who won't listen to his wife
even though she makes sense, as it is an affront to his right to be
mindlessly macho?


> Every last single one of you have been in the situation John suggested in his
> post, with the exception of your first stage actually blowing.  Don't EVEN
> tell me that you haven't been at over 130' on a single tank ever in your
> diving life.  Sure, we don't do that now, but that doesn't mean that we have
> been "Mr. Joe Super Safety Diver" all of our lives.  NO ONE is advocating
> that kind of diving - it was merely a question regarding a possible piece of
> safety equipment.  Comprende?

i wouldn't be at 160 with a single tank without KNOWING that i had a gas
sharing buddy close enough to provide timely assistance

i know you're not advocating anything...

but the hypothetical as stated is problematic
it implies that a diver is not truly self-sufficient and yet is not within
reach of a buddy to share air
if we cannot assume that this hypothetical diver can plan this dive
reasonably why should we assume he will have a loaded CO2 cylinder and a
working release for it (for example)?
isn't this just the type of moron who WILL let the thing rust in there for
a few hundred years?


there's just no reason to NEED the CO2 inflator for that purpose
even if it WOULD work (which as has been pointed out , it probably wouldn't)


> Of all the replies to his post, only Farb had the most coherent, reasonable
> answer.

well as only one person can, by definition, have the MOST coherent, etc.
it might as well be Rod Farb


> Take a chill-pill, or better yet, some Midol...

not only silly, but sexist as well
in my experience, women tend to be emminently MORE reasonable than men
case in point..you, who won't be "wrong" even when you clearly are

w2

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