Mailing List Archive Mailing List Archive
>I know lots of guys who dive for shellfish >commercially. In RI, they tend to be quahog fishermen, and in my >experience, they tend to pretty much know what they're doing. The two >bozo's in maine I know who dive urchins scare me - I once asked one how >much bottom time he logs on a typical day, and he said: "I dunno, three or >four or five tanks worth... I hear you and it scares me too. A question I have to ask rhetorically is whether some of these "decompressionless" commercial divers are ones that eventually wind up in someone's scientific study and will "blow the stats" which end up scaring the bejeezus out of all the people who *do* follow the decom tables religeously and follow all the current safety gas procedures. I realize no one has an answer to the above , but it's something that we all have to keep in mind when reading some of the reports that filter through the lay, non-diving press. "Who were the divers studied (what "vintage" of diver) and therefore what were their gas mixes and decom procedures of their day compared to what we do today. Just a thought. Robb Wolov
Navigate by Author:
[Previous]
[Next]
[Author Search Index]
Navigate by Subject:
[Previous]
[Next]
[Subject Search Index]
[Send Reply] [Send Message with New Topic]
[Search Selection] [Mailing List Home] [Home]