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Dave if you think this an improbable scenario dive those clear warm florida waters, because this sort of thing happens up here. We don't want the Pretty Florida boys up here with all their crap, like the man said - "You look like a half-assed astronaut". Simplicity is the key to the way I dive. I'm sure George would tell you why I like simple. For me it is less to go wrong, less to deal with and more time concentrated on the task at hand. I don't dive to explore caves, I don't look at reefs, I go to retrieve relics from wrecks and get some dinner. I swim down a line, crawl into a wreck and play demolision man. Wnat to hear something disgusting? My 5 pound sledge is an integral part of my weight system, as is a crow bar, assorted chisels, punches and drift pins. I carry wrenches often and sometimes I bring a car jack or a shovel. I always have at least a 100 pound lift bag and two bug bags. I bring an up line in case I can't get back to the anchor line (we don't drift dive in the North Atlantic) and I DO NOT bring or even consider using a penetration line because *** I *** don't think you should be in a place you can't find your way out of with bad vis or no mask. Aside from the frequently cut lines by new and confused divers. And I always come back with something, that's why I dive, that's the way I dive and some morons that need to brag about drawing pictures of caves and how long their line is don't impress me one bit. They are little bragarts and couldn't dive as I do because they have too much shit on and are too busy trying to prove their manliness. Don't dive as I do, don't dive as anyone does. Dive the way that you have found through experience and knowledge gives you the safety you require and the benefits you demand. That is what advanced diving is about, think for yourself. Mark ---------------------------- Dave Mabry wrote: > > I think this one is a lost cause, guys. Rule #1 would seem appropriate > here. > > Mark Welzel wrote: > > > > Here's one Jimmy Boy; you're in a wreck, the guy in the next room > > is using a pnuematic chisel while his partner is hammering away > > on a porthole. When you slipped into the room you are in your > > second regs second stage got loose and jammed in the doorway. Since > > you only went in 2 or 3 feet you didn't feel it tug, but there > > it is dumping all your manifolded gas, and you can't hear it > > because of the noise and the fact that it's on the otherside of > > a wall. Worse yet you see some coins in the muck, dig, drop your light > > and can't find that because you ruined the vis while digging. You > > trace your lights lead and find it just as you suck vacuum. > > You say "but this can't happen to me, techdiver said so!" > > Them you die. > > > > On independants you would just switch to your other tank > > and leave. > > > > Nah, that could never happen . . . > > You go on believing everything they tell you here. I'll have > > to recover your body. > > Mark > > -- > Dave Mabry dmabry@mi*.co* > Great Lakes Maritime Institute Underwater Research Team > NACD NSS-CDS #42872 > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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