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Chris,
What the hell are you talking about? If you buy the right gear period, you
will have the right gear for 200 feet+ dives when you get to that level. If
you buy shit, then you will have to buy the right gear later on.
HELLO............ just buy the RIGHT gear the first time. I don't know
about you, but I only want to buy my gear once. I don't want to have to turn
around and sell it because it is a piece of shit, and have to buy the right
stuff later on. I would much rather buy the right stuff the first time.
BTW, square lights......... Now that is fucking science at its best. Lamar
did a good job of covering up a piece of shit (strap, sleeve, etc), just like
cats do. You don't try to fix a piece of shit. You throw it out and build
something that is right. The same thing with those damn plastic knobs (the
screw) on the DR reels. They gotta go. The excuse I heard was, you can't
replace the screw with a stronger one or it will be stronger than the plastic
spool and the spool will crack. Well, don't try to fix a piece of
shit............replace the shitty plastic with lexan.
Do you always miss the point or do you work at it. You missed the point on
this one, you missed the point on the Nat Geo/Bill Stone/Hauatla post. The
message wasn't that hard. Try listening sometime.
Options:
1) buy the right gear the first time
save money
have money to buy other things (scooters, drysuit, etc)
OR
2) buy shit gear
have to buy the right gear the second time around
waste the money that could have been spent on the
scooter or drysuit.
Now that is a tough decision!
Mike
Chris wrote:
Did this college student, who was going to/was getting/just got cave
trained, say to his equip. supplier "The next diving I'm going to do, now
that I have my new cave cert., is making 200+ ft. scootering trimix dives,
staging bottles at Wakulla, so what gear do I need for that?"
Check here: Yes No
How much diving did he do with the orig. gear he bought? None Lots
Did he have any problems with it? None Lots
Has your buddy been told that *no* tanks seem to have "perfect" buoyancy
characteristics, and that compensation (molding/attaching weight) is a
technique used with the best tanks?
The reason I'm asking is that some folks *want* a system for converting
from double to single tank config., for farting around in o/w (zip down
with scooter, touch the wreck, return to boat, criticize others on boat),
or making single-tank power-snorkel dives to check out sink holes. Other
divers like redundant wings -- for ex. -- when not wearing a drysuit and
having the bouyancy from that, in case one craps, you can switch infl.
hoses and regain bouyancy. Or, when in the boondocks, if one wing set craps
and there ain't no shop nearby, you can still go diving using the other.
Notice: I *am not* arguing that his orig. equip. is best for heavy-duty
tally power cave diving.
BTW, I've seen those square lights working just fine in the many, many
shallower ( than wakulla) caves that divers enjoy in mexico and the US
while they're getting their chops down -- the caves where divers just go
in, following permanent lines, and sight-see/practice, shoot images, etc.
-- to many, a perfectly legitimate form of cave diving.
We might discover also that your friend *wanted and asked for* the gear he
bought at that time. I mean, I don't blame giii's *barber* for that silly
haircut -- I just assume that he *wants* to look that way. ;-) ;-)
Also, you published Paul's name internationally while expressing your
opinion that he is a charlatan and dumbass. Have you spent any time with
him in order to form that opinion?
And lastly, what is your full name?
Sincerely,
Christopher A. Brown
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