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Mitch Ashley <chance@sn*.ne*> wrote:
> Two things have become dangerously obvious here lately.
> 
> Seems there are two kinds of divers: 
> 
> 1. Those that depend on their gear to do what's it's supposed to and 
> therefore put their money on the best possible for the job.
> 
> 2.  Those that want good gear but don't want to pay.  These include 
> the homebrewer (George reformed me with one of his sharp but accurate 
> comments) and the cheapster.  Homebrew makes it himself, cheapster 
> gets his gear by the cheapest means possible.
> 
> It comes down to this - when your life and the lifes of those you 
> dive with count - do you really want to be diving with the cheap 
> stuff?

Since we are on techdiver: I thought there were two kinds of techdivers:
1. Those that love technical diving. 

2. Those that love the gear for technical diving.

For the gear freaks it can't get expensive enough. Triple redundancy is
the reason they started technical diving. The gear looks so important
and they can impress all those babes with it. These guys are a shopowner's
dream come true. They have the most expensive gear but not the best and even if
they had they could not handle it.

OTOH there are the divers that want the best gear available simply because
they want to do the best dives and come back alive. This usally means
that part of their equipment is homemade simply because this is the best
or the only available.

High price does not necessarily mean high quality.
If I recall correctly the mother of all techdivers (gmiii)
told us that everything that is good will be discontinued.

I think most if not all manufacturers started by making stuff for themselves,
then for their friends and then for the world. 


And now for the cheapster:
Are you really sure there are so many of them?
Since anything beyond snorkeling is quite expensive, diving is not the
kind of sport you should do when you are low on money.


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