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Ok folks...... With tedious regularity we seem to get a few posts relating to subjects that have no place on this forum, notwithstanding that occasionally this may be a genuine request for clarification, this usually ends up in a justification exercise as to why somebody thinks 'in their honest opinion' the info is valid. A recent one was relating to the use of pony cylinders. The trouble is that forum's such as this have a fair number of 'interested bystanders' for whatever reason - that is fine, it is one of the functions of the techdiver forum - information exchange. This level of involvement in the 'sport' of diving requires many things. The trouble is that many people that feel they are 'out there doing it' or to a large extent are the 'medicine men' pedalling the elixer of 'Tech diving' do not have the basics sorted. I could wax on lyrically about these weaknesses, but here are a couple of examples. 1. " I feel more comforatable with a main and a pony,since I can't reach an isolator because my drysuit/underwear is for cold water use and I can't reach behind". This is a classic. Expanded neoprene drysuits have no application at this level of the sport - too restrictive,but somebody told the owner that this was the right suit. 2. "I carry bottom gas in a stage and back mount deco/travel gas". Why? - what happened to the first rule of redundancy - the dive team?. Insufficient gas volume to allow a buddy to bail out to,Oooops, forgot to mention the 'we bail out to air' devotees. 3. One of the training agencies had a stand at the Eurotek show in the UK in October 1996. (they all had - who it is does not matter in this instance). On the stand was a convoluted gear setup the like of which you have never seen in your life - FFM,gas blocks + hose city. The punters look at this and gaze longingly.Suddenly they desire to become 'tech' and start to look for a route to become the diver of this gear. Only myself and Billy Deans spoke out in the auditorium advising those present that if they wished to see an equipment rig that would kill somebody , then drop by that particular stand. Hell Billy even took some slides of it to use back home. 655 Delta (that was the stand number) has become a part of technical training viz aids at Key West as an example of what will ultimatley kill you. How do we prevent this continuing? - Keep on at the people that are missing the point. GMIII does not suffer fools gladly, hell neither would I if some of my friends had died in preventable 'faux pas', but the info is meant with the best of intentions. Like wise my droning on here - keep on hammering away at the idiots on the fringe so the only people that die of their ignorance are themselves. Phew! - just had to get it out! Regards -- Chris Hellas e-mail:- chris@de*.de*.co*.uk*
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