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Mr. Boat monkey-

Gosh, I forgot about pnuematic chisel diving! Please add that to the list!

>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
>
>Jim Cobb wrote:
>> 
>> >I put it to you that not everyone diving a manifold will notice a leak
>> >so at some point someone is going to lose ALL their gas.
>> 
>> You are absolutely correct on this. If you are a blind, deaf, totally
>> clueless looser, you will never notice all of your air leaking out of
>> your tanks. Well, I'll cut you some slack and admit that if you were
>> diving under a waterfall you might not notice. Or diving down rapids, or
>> while dynamite fishing, or perhaps in a waterspout you would not notice.
>> OK, ok, if you are:
>> 
>> - Volcano diving
>> - Hurricane diving
>> - Red Sea diving (during biblical events)
>> - Container ship prop-wash diving
>> - Surf diving
>> - Sulfurous vent diving
>> - Tsunami diving
>> - Jacuzzi diving
>> - Anti-ship mine testing diving
>> - Sewer aeration tank diving
>> 
>> you without a doubt should use independent doubles.

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