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  It is always the same - complete gear buffoonery that is so horrifying that 
any number of things could have happened, like trying to figure out what killed 
the passengers on the Value Jet crash in Miami - it was being too  stupid to do 
it right and fly a real airline - just like you guys with your bogus gear 
configs. 

  I like your quote , Jim , "never should have happened" - we need to make the 
tape mandatory viewing for you guys. I did a gear-rigging seminar at an NACD 
conference two years ago, and it pissed the people off so badly that they said 
they would boycott the conference last year if I was allowed to do it again,
and 
all I did was show the  slide version of the film. 

  Let's walk through it: first, several years ago when we learned to dive,
there 
were only harnesses and regulators, one regulator (then we had pressure
guages). 
That one reg was the one we breathed, and the one we shared. We learned how to 
do that, and the hose was long enouugh to do so, and take a diver up.

          Then, commercial divers started using a backup reg, which they hung 
aroung their neck on a strap, in fact, many of the "backup regs" CAME THAT WAY

          We hung that around our neck and still breathed the other one, which 
we also shared, since the backup was hung around our neck - ARE YOU GUYS 
FOLOWING THIS?

          Then along came bc's, and those were actually a third regulator, if 
you held in both buttons at the same time.

    Then along came strokes, and colored the "octopus", named it the "safe 
second", and STUFFED it, like any real stroke would. Then came these same 
strokes teaching diving to everyone who could write a check, and we end up with 
the following:

     Two divers, with six regs between them, and one drowns because they are 
rigged like strokes and have no clue, likely because the dive industry has no 
clue, and taught them to rig improperly, and tought them no useful skills. I 
would love to get some of your "instructors" in the water for a few minutes.

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