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Le/On26 Jun 96 @ 15:33, vous ecrivites/you wrote:
> From: "J. SILVERSTEIN" <72650.220@Co*.CO*>
> In an era when most of the people who are diving probably should not
> be, and when the barriers to entry in scuba diving have become
> greater than ever before we wonder what all the houpla is about when
> it comes to an item that has next to no usefulness in recreational
> diving.
A recent article in IMMERSED asked, amongst other questions about
rebreathers, "why do you want a rebreather".
'round here, we hear a lot of "how", "when", "how many" or rather
"how much" about rebreathers, but it seems that we have yet to hear
about "why"?
So, I'm asking:
Why do you want a rebreather?
Speaking for myself, I'm interested in rebreathers for:
- Extra bottom time. When I dive, I suck (compared to some of my
buddies); so those 80 cu ft are empty fast. Seriously, for this, I'm
working on my air consumption, and I look hard at 95 ft tanks.
- Ability to travel far to remote places I'd like to dive someday
(St-Lawrence gulf north shore; Anticosti Island and, let's dream,
the Labrador/newfoundland/northern Quebec shores of the Arctic Ocean
- WWWs need not apply) without having to carry a lot of bulky and
heavy consummables.
- Maintain a ppO2 as high as possible (don't worry about CNS ox-tox,
that cold water will make sure I reset the O2 clock promptly).
- The challenge to discipline myself into being competent enough to
operate something as crucial as a rebreather (read: a darn good
excuse to get a lot of underwater experience).
----------------- Pour la Republique Francaise du Quebec -----------------
The "Moral Majority" (so called) is a deadly enemy to science and to free
thought. I think that, at the moment, they are more powerful and more
dangerous than people calling themselves Nazis. ---- Isaac Asimov, 1981
~~~~~ Last dive: the "Rothesay", in Prescott, 11 mfw. ~~~~~
This .sig is illegal in the states, because it contains a dirty word.
Marc Dufour - [\] ACUC6 31874 - TDI CD-0197 - http://www.accent.net/emdx
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