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Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:59:02 -0800
From: iantdhq@ix*.ne*.co* (IANTD )
Subject: Re: OPINION on Safety in Rebreathers
To: "George M. Irvine III" <gmiiii@in*.co*>
Cc: techdiver@terra.net
You wrote: 
George I agree on the mounting. It was just on set up Jack will not do 
it. thus you need to set it up on your own. the little tanks can be 
shutout of the system the way I have set up the unit>
Tom
>
> 
>   Tom, with the big bottles you need to mount them all the way up,
>not down where the little bottles go. You need the big bottles for the 

>open circuit bailout in cave. It will be big, but not longer than a 
set
>of 121's is already. I am only talking one application here, and I
>would not want four bottles or deco and bottom gas in any way linked.
>Anality keeps me alive. If you are just cave diving with it for fun,
>use the little bottle and carry a stage for bailout.
>
>   Otherwise, the other machine is not suited for cave diving, and
>is totally unnecessary for what we (WKPP) do. Please keep in mind that
>we actually do this on a regular basis, and are tired of hearing 
better
>ways from people (not you) who have proven their inability to get 
anything done 
>with any equipment of any kind. I realize that you make money and have
>fun playing with the techie stuff, and I will be glad to do it with 
>you , I like rebreathers and other gadgets, but when it comes time to
>do what we do, until somebody can actually do it a better way in 
>Tallahasse Power Cave, we have no interest.
>
>      When Stone does his first cave
>dive in Cheryl or Turner or one of those, I will buy one of his units 
and
>donate it to charity. So far, on his one attempt to dive Wakulla, he 
made it
>to where we drop our first stage bottle before clusterschmucking 
himself into
>near oblivion. He says he will go three times as far as we go, but so 
far
>my newest support divers have all been farther than he has, and that 
goes for
>his financeer as well, and in Sally Ward, well, dobn't make me laugh.
>
>   - G
>
>    
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