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Dave, I think that when you read it, you took it seriously. If you read it as a joke it is really great stuff! Now if he would only send more instead of just repeating himself. -John > How many times are you going to post this shit??? > > Dave > > ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ > Subject: Training > Author: "Franz Van Der Molen" <6822.192@co*.co*> at Internet2 > Date: 11/11/96 1:15 PM > > > You can not braeth the long hose and stage dive. It's quite obvious to me and > just about everyone else except the "Irvine Wannabe's". Why would anyone have > a 7' or 9' hose on their stage bottle? They wont, so as a result, while you > are stage diving, youre not breathing the long hose. Maybe things are different > in Florida, but out here in California, that's not how we do things. > > If we just take the density of water, and the curve of the drag efficiency, > we > see that a drysuit just makes no sense when scootering. At least if you are > trying > for any sort of distance. > > There are other things you guys just have all wrong. Like the idea that you > have > to be an olympic calibur athelete to do these dives. Everyone knows that to do a > scooter dive requires no special physical training. And gas diving? The average > american can competantley do recreational mixed gas dives. > > As for rebreathers being "magic carpet rides", you're bnarking up the wrong > tree > there. Rebreathers have been around longer then conventional SCUBA equipment, > and > they are better tried/tested. Plus they're just safer, when you can have all the > equipment to do some of these dives in a compact case, it just makes better > sense. > I teach all of my cave classes that they should consider taking a rebreather > course > from me when they're done, so they can get some experience on the rebreather and > make the dicision for themselvs. > > Franz > IANTD Cave/Rebreather Instructer > >
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