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Weellll, the results are in.  No yellow badge of strokery for me.
It seems there are two different points of view.....

One from the pros that dive for a living and then those that dive for 
recreation.  While I don't hold it against the recreational ones, 
their point seems to be what I thought they'd tell me.  All they said 
was things like:  "I've been diving it with no problems for....."  
But the working divers gave me specifics as to what was wrong with it 
and why not to use it.    In other words:
  Diverite is selling to the market they intended.

Now, from the working diver's point - like most DIVERITE gear, this 
is another marketing bonanza.  Like those lures that George spoke of 
once before, much of DIVERITES gear appears designed for catching 
wannabe techdivers.

To the Pros, you all said the same thing.  And I mean almost EXACTLY 
the same thing.  In fact, most of you referred to the DECOMM 
software.  I agree.  I recently downloaded the shareware version 
(gascalc) and absolutely love it.  I'm definetly getting the full 
version.  Two dive shops in my area took a copy - checked it out, and 
now are buying the full version for doing gas mixing.  Excellent 
stuff.  

As for DIVERITE - (I don't mind flaming the bastards cause they can 
bitch at me all they want)  I was caught once by the gimmicks and 
gags too until some smarter pros taught me the difference.  Before 
that when I bought from them they would tell us an item was in stock, 
that it was being shipped that day.  Four or five weeks later and it 
hadn't come so checking on it they would inform us - "it's on 
backorder."  Hmmmmmm, must have been recalls that held them up!

Well, thanks for all the advice.  You've once again helped me save a 
bundle.

Mitch

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