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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:02:44 -1000 (HST)
From: Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*>
To: gmiiii@in*.co*
Cc: techdiver@terra.net
Subject: Re: Recommendations for BC?
>  Sorry , Rich, I am so used to seeing all of these atrocities extolled
together 
> as a single style by the same people, that I did not, as you suggest, read
the 
> post properly. My mistake.

No problem.

> I think the same thing you do about the smaller 
> wings, but see the double bladder risk outweighing any usefullness. Your 
> rebreather is not likely even negative in the first place, so if you have a 
> problem, drop you weightbelt.

No - I want the single bladder for the breather - the counterlungs are my 
bailout buoyancy.  I need the double bladder only for OC T-shirt dives 
(with a wetsuit, I can always pull my collar tight and stuff a 2nd stage 
under my wetsuit jacket. I have never worn a drysuit).  I see no reason 
why I will ever need to do a decompression dive on OC ever again, so come 
to think of it, I only need the single bladder version.  But we were 
talking OC diving at the time.

On the other stuff, one of the biggest eye-openers at the breather forum 
was when the British Royal Navy guy said that 40% of their rebreather 
trainees do not pass the course.  Bear in mind, they are STARTING with 
perfectly fit, highly disciplined folks.

Rich

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