On 26 Jun 1996, J. SILVERSTEIN wrote:

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> The scuba industry is small. Its less than a Quarter Billion Dollars. Thats
> squatola. The kitty litter business is bigger.
>
> In a time when dive boats are half filled, young men and women are still
> dying under the water, and smoke filled training classes are more
> abundant than Carter has liver pills I think that the rebreather is best
> kept in the Military and specialized application areas and SCUBA should
> stay as SCUBA.

Um, correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't SCUBA stand for "Self Contained
Underwater Breathing Apparatus"?  A 'breather is as self-contained an
underwater breathing apparatus as any open-circuit rig.  Both are SCUBA.

-Eric Lundquist

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