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       At the NACD workshop, I was outside waiting for JJ , and Bill Dooley had 
Tom Mount's gear tape playing on a small TV. Just as I looked over, there was 
Tom himself showing how he rigs a butt-mounted light. 

       This was the most dangerous thing I have seen yet: there were d-rings 
hoseclamped to the tank (a mess) , there wre d-rings clamped to the light, and 
there were metal clips (doubleenders) between these rings holding the light on 
to the tanks. 

        Besides being a sloppy mess banging about behind you, if you got hund
up 
on a wreck or even in a cave, you could not cut yourself free. This shows 
absolutely no knowedge of diving application, and is the kind of dangerous , 
convoluted strokery that I was talking about , and I only saw a few seconds of 
the tape. 

         This tape needs to be recalled, and Tom needs to put a little thought 
into this before he recommends dangerous, convoluted, poorly thought out,
assine 
stupidity like this to new divers.

          I am absolutely positive that Lamar Hires has his butt lights
attached 
with a small section of shock cord between the clips so that the light can be 
freed with a knife, and so that it does not slop around and bang, but then he
is 
the one and only person on this earth who should be buttmounting a dive rite 
light ( he works for them). At least Lamar does not go off half-cocked and 
recomend a more dangerous way of doing something that is already dangerous.

           Recall the tape. Tom, why is it that even Lamr Hires you pay no 
attention to, but must reinvent the wheel at every turn. I am sure if I watched 
this tape longer I would see hundreds of violatioins. Tell me, since I wil not 
see any more of it (that was enough), are you still telling people to put brass 
rings around the bottle necks and rig theri stages so that they can not be cut 
off either? H E L L O !

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