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First, thanks for the replies on the drysuit repair. DUI said they could do the job in 10 working days, and I'm inclined to stick with the company. Well, as promised, I went to the scuba expo over the weekend in Los Angeles, mainly to see Dick Long, president of DUI, give a talk on technical diving. The rest of the expo was pretty much what you'd expect: a lot of padi and a lot of vactions. The makers of the Newtsuit have a one-place sub that was there; they brought one in from Catalina island and they were offering training in it. It sold for several thousand, and went to at least 1000' feet. Pertty neat. It had about a 24 hour air supply thanks to a CO2 scrubber system. If you get one, I'll get one and we can race. Dick's seminar was more or less geared toward (and titled) "What can the recreational diver learn from the technical diver?" Some of you have probably seen this presentation before. It was put together by four people; the only names I remember were Dick's and Michael Munduno's, from aquaCorps. Aren't we due for another aquaCorps soon? Anyway, Dick had several points. Amoung the things he wanted to stress were that we should all be using longer hoses on our secondary regs, should never dive past 60m on air, use the rule of thirds, practice emergency procedures before we need them, and conserve body heat as you would conserve air. He talked about the wisdom of buddy diving with people you don't really know, and the need for self-sufficiency, and "partner diving." He also did his best to keep anyone from going into technical diving. He had a good definition of technical diving. Recreation diving means looking at a dive, and asking yourself if you have the equipment and training to make the dive. Technical diving involves coming up with a dive you want to make, and getting the training and equipment you need to make it. He had a lot of great slides, just pictures of people's rigs, divers like Billy Deans. He was showing a lot of little details I like, rigs fine tuned to avoid entanglement and for ease of use. He stopped on on slide of a diver, I should know his name since I have heard the story before, but it has slipped my mind, and told of how this was a competant diver, but was trapped on a sub wreck, the Yoohoo, for 40 minutes, with his dive partner, his son. I think they were past 200' on air. During decompression, they had oxygen toxicity problems, and so surfaced quickly. The father died there, the son later in a chamber. Then he showed some really amazing pictures of caves and wrecks. If this show comes around, I'd recommend seeing it. Dick also said the slides were available; you can contact DUI if you're interested. ======================================================= Roger Carlson w 310-812-0430 somewhere off Hermosa Beach, CA f 310-812-1363 roger@ch*.sp*.tr*.co* h 310-frogger =======================================================
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