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> Date sent: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 20:48:57 -0800 > From: "George M. Irvine III" <gmiiii@in*.co*> > Subject: NEW TAPE - HOW TO > > DO IT ALL WRONG > > I have decided to make a new tape for Richard Wakergbarth and his friends, > called "Doing It Wrong" in the interest of fairness to all strokes, and in order > to preserve the freeedom of choice and personal preference we all love in > diving. This tape will , among other things, feature topics like : > > 1) How to buttmount a square light, and conveniently stow six backups , since > we all know the square light will fail. <snip> You know, this past weekend I spent out at Ginnie Springs because I needed to humour myself. Sunday (yesterday) I was getting ready to do a little scooter dive, and I was sitting in the water waiting to get to my stage bottle (it was behind an instructor giving a briefing to her openwater class, so rather then be rude, I waited patiently for her to finish the briefing). While waiting, a buddy team started to exit the water. They had it all backwards, helmets, helmet mounted lights, etc. One of them showed me that his light (I won't mention the brand, but it was brown and square and firmly attached to his butt) flooded. He was impressed that it didn't fail, but it apparently flooded on him at 2500'. He showed me the test tube and how it was half full of water. I was dismayed, mostly because he was diving a clearly unsafe light. Any light that floods during a dive is what I would call unsafe. I informed him that I've never had that problem with my AUL spec 14. Ken
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