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Someone asked me about the Hogathian article in Deeptek mag.
A couple of things. I did not write it, Win Remley , the editor did.
He and Linda were in Lauderdale and came over to the house and we
went to dinner. While we were hanging out, he pulled his tape player
and asked a few gear questions, but we did not actually look at the
gear. There are some confusing items that several people have asked me
about. Keep in mind that Bill Main is "Hogarth", and my style is a
modern, deep gas long range version of his style, which is really
his with the engineering expertise of Bill Gavin, and was more
Gavin than Main, but Main is more gregarious than Gavin, and is
one of those guys who can "straighten" you out without pissing you
off. I can't, Gavin won't.
Bill Main "retired" from the "high-risk" stuff several years ago,
but has been diving with us (WKPP) more and more as we have reduced the
risk, in his opinion. He has changed some of his ways to match what we are
doing, but he, like many of our people, still use the center post yoke
manifold. I do not. He, and others, still use the suicide clips and
hardware snaps - I do not, so they must accomodate this with additional
d-rings, as these things are too hard to use with my harness style. This
is where Win got the "d-ring for every tank" line. I have one d-ring on
each shoulder, one on my left hip, and one on my crotch strap - that is
all. Gavin and I also run the inflator over the shoulder through a piece
of bungee. I do it so I can operate my drysuit and wing with one hand,
and so as to always know exactly where to find that device. Main used
to run it under his shoulder, but switched to what we do because
he said it was getting caught in the stage bottles.
Any other differences relate to gas diving and the difference in
new vs. old manifolds. The best thing on the modern gear style is the
film we made, the best written piece on why is Gavin's chapter in the
NACD manual, especially the last line, which singlehandedly kept the
book unpublished for seven years, much like the NACD refusing to show
my film at the convention because of the air-sharing scene. Anyone
who sees that immediately gives up the hose-stuffing argument.
The WKPP article was also written by Remley. I wrote the Decompression
and Software article with Dr. Bill and the "PFO" article with Dr. Doolette.
I also wrote a separate dive profile using two programs which I took from
my log book. There was another article about something we did, but it was all
wrong , but who cares , nobody noticed that one.
The complainers should be happy, as I have not written anything
more for any magazines. - G
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