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To: Production <termstr@le*.co*>
Subject: Re: Dive Rite Wings (and other things)
From: Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*>
Cc: techdive <techdiver@opal.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 08:51:31 +22305714 (HST)

> > All this talk of dissimilar tanks, doubles w/o manifolds and newbie 
> > technical divers makes me want to remind everyone:
> > 
> > 	We all know of many "near-misses" and a couple of fatalities that 
> > 	could have been avoided had a dual-outlet manifold been 
> > 	properly used.
> > 
> > "JAIL TO THE CHIEF"	dan@sh*.ne*		mig@shadow.net	"GORE IN '94"
> > 
> > 
> 
> Those "near-misses" and fatalities could also have been avoided had the divers
> been using the thirds rule to allow the indepandant tanks to serve as their
own 
> backups.  In my opinion, the only clear disadvantage of independant doubles is
> the increase in task loading.

I have two different mixtures in my main doubles, so obviously I have a
reason to use independant tanks.

Aloha,

Rich

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