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At 08:44 9/01/97 -0200, you wrote:
>anscott@hi*.ne*.au* wrote in reply to George :
>
>George we dont dive deep on air because helium is expensive we do it to 
>make
>the dive more exciting, dangerous, and because we're so damn tough. To save 
>money we wear independents but breath off only one tank for the whole dive 
>so we dont have to pay $6 for another air fill. etc. etc.
>
>As a matter of interest and totally off the topic, do you Australians butt 
>mount the sheep, I suppose a side mounted holgarthian mounting won't really 
>work, where does the long hose go? :-)
>
>Paul
>


No Paul it's the New Zealanders that butt mount sheep, we butt mount
Kangaroos when we can catch them. We dont use a long hose on deep air dives
because we dont want to risk giving the person we're rescuing an O2 hit.We
let them drown and try to revive them on the surface as I believe Scheck
once did.
>

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