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Subject: Re: pony bottle rigging
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 96 22:16:21 -0000
From: Jim Cobb <ir002538@po*.in*.co*>
To: "Richard Pyle" <deepreef@bi*.bi*.Ha*.Or*>
cc: "George Irvine" <gmiiii@in*.co*>, "Tech Diver" <techdiver@terra.net>

Rich-

Long hose enables you to re-route so it does not stick out in the breeze 
snagging on stuff yet still allows full unincumbered head movement.

BTW, on solo diving- You might want to read in the Sept. Dive Training, 
excellent article by Alex Brylske "The Buddy System Reexamined". There 
might be hope for us solo divers yet.

   Jim

>Even you should be able to recognize how useless a 7-foot hose around a 
>solo diver's neck is.  That's open-water mixed-gas 101.  When you've 
>graduated from that level, you'll start to get an appreciation for why 
>most or all gas needs to be carried with you.  They maybe you'll 
>understand why you need aluminum primaries and dual-baldder BC's when you 
>don't use a drysuit.  An then, after that, we can start talking about the 
>*really* advanced stuff.

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