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   i havent scanned your web page lately so tell me what dives have you done
lately?and do you and your buddy really own that much crap? - jt

On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Michael Parker wrote:

> 
> What's "truly pathetic", as you state, is the fact that you actually spent
> some time to compose the below message and send it to the list.  Even if
> you didn't compose it, it's truly amazing to me that you could possibley
> think that it need to be vomited back to Techdiver.
> 
> I hope you're less of a stroke under the water, as you perceive to be
> from this posting to the Techdiver list.
> 
> Michael Parker
> 
> 
> On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, John Todd wrote:
> 
> >     the following is a sample techdiver posting.it is not an actual
> > posting,but it shows the level of technical discussion that has become all
> > to common on this list.30 minutes of deco for a 25 minute dive to 130,being
> > good on deep air,how to rig your gear in the most convoluted way,and how its
> > ok to go diving if you cant turn your valves off,truly pathetic. - jt
> >
> >     i too was wondering the proper way to rig a pony bottle and then it hit
> > me.i took out my heliarc welding set and welded a 30ft3 pony directly onto
> > my beauchat 180ft3 tank.this way my pony is roughly 1/6th my gas supply
> > which should be fine to get me to the surface.after all,my 25 minute dives
> > to 130 usually only give me about 30-40 minutes of decompression.the bad
> > part however is that when i was done welding the tanks together i had to
> > re-oxygen clean them (if your tanks arennt oxygin cleaned then youre
> > breaking federal laws,i heard this from a reliable source so it must be
> > true).the other bad thing is now when i tried to get my tanks filled the guy
> > at the fill vat just looks at them,looks at me,and shakes his head.however i
> > can directly fill the helium from my heliarc welding set directly into my
> > tanks,but ive been told i should only use medical grade helium as opposed to
> > welding grade helium.someone once told me that he used balooon grade
> > helium,but he did more deep dives then i do so could justify the added
> > expense of the ballooon grade.of course i only need trimix to go below 250
> > because the many years of experience i have collecting artifacts on air down
> > to 249 feet proves that i am indeed good deep on air,but 250 is just where
> > my "personal preference" limit is to switch to helium mixes.i usually find
> > the best artifacts at 240 too,but they usually deteriorate by the time i hit
> > decompression and are worthless by the time i get to the surface.now the
> > main reason i need to get that pony is because i cant reach behind my head
> > (my arms are so big they wont bend that far) to turn my valves off if i have
> > a reg failure,so i need the pony to be safe.can someone recommend what i
> > should do to fix these problems? - sum stroke
> >
> >
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