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>   Rich, watch the films if you want to see perfect buoyancy control. Even if 
> there were a better bouyancy mechanism, which there is not (other than with
no 
> gear, as you point out), why would anyone want to use a convoluted mishmash
of 
> silliness to achieve it when there is no advantage? I catch lobsters all of
the 
> time, and do it with no wetsuit, so can not touch the coral, and would not 
> anyway, so I am sure of the buoyancy thing .  It is in your mind. 

Golly, George, I guess you are right - it must have all been "in my 
mind". Silly me. I don't want to play this game anymore.

>   Besides, they are making a small wing now, rather than the inflatable boat 
> that they were making.

Now THAT would be an improvement.  The biggest problem I have with the 
OMS (which is also true of most of the others) is that the lift capacity is 
way too huge.  I'll tell you my ideal:  Two independent bladders in a 
single shell, each with about 15lbs max lift.  The shell would allow both 
bladders to be fully inflated (max 30 lbs lift) in the extremely rare 
case that I would need that much.  See if you can convince John to make 
me a BC like that.  I'd also like a single-bladder version for the 
rebreather.

Rich

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