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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 16:01:07 -1000 (HST)
From: Dennis Pierce <dpierce@al*.ne*>
To: gmiiii@in*.co*
cc: Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.Ha*.Or*>, rfarb <rfarb@na*.ne*>,
     Tom Mount , techdiver@terra.net
Subject: Re: your mail

fear is a lack of knowledge...

dp


On Wed, 10 Jul 1996 gmiiii@in*.co* wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.Ha*.Or*> wrote:
> >On Tue, 9 Jul 1996 gmiiii@in*.co* wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >>  Rich,I will be honest with you- I don't have the balls 
> >
> >O.K....I'm lost.  What was this in reference to again?
> >
> >Rich
> >
>    I am scared to dive an electronic rebreather . i have used ones like the 
> Odessy without being scared of it, as there is nothing but mechancial failure
to 
> worry about, and that I can deal with. I am just afraid to use the ones that 
> rely on sensors and elctronics, like the MK16, the one Farb has, or the ones
you 
> have. Gavin tell sme the EX19 and the MK16 work fine for hours, but I don't
see 
> him diving one. The diving I do requires that the gear be ignored and the job 
> concentrated on- if I were hypoxic or hyoperoxic, I would never know it,
except 
> maybe at deco, and I may not even notice hypercapnia, although that is
usually 
> pretty obvious. Not for me, although if I were not afrraid of them, a unit
like 
> Farbs would realy come in handy in the Bahamas or walking around looking at 
> sinkholes. Yours is a litle large for that, chief
> 
> 

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