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  awright@gs*.bt*.co*.uk* (Alan Wright) wrote on Wed, 13 Jul 1994 14:13:22
+0000 (Subject: re: restrictions on diving (was: Re: ultrasound)):-

  > I can't comment on what the Royal Navy kept secret on nitrox ... I think
the major problem in the UK is BSAC's reaction to nitrox. ...
  and for a long time the BSAC has or had rules prohibiting rebreather diving
and old-style hardhat diving.

  (1) The Subject: lines of several messages in this thread of discussion have
remained as "restrictions on diving" although the topic has shifted from that
to nitrox. This threatens to confuse people looking through Techdiver's index
later for all messages on a particular topic. Surely the `reply' facilities of
most modern emailers have the means to change the `Subject:' line of messages
being replied to? Mine has. Sorry to be pointed about a non-underwater matter.

  (2) I suppose that such rules partly to avoid having to keep track of
different sorts of gear just for a minority. E.g. recently I heard of (a) one
small group that says that all its members' decompression computers must be
the Suunto Solution, and (b) a group that says that all its members must use
one particular make of regulator and of stab jacket, so that everybody's gear
is the same, so everybody knows what is where in everybody else's kit in
emergencies. (At a diving course at Swanage (Dorset, UK) I was told to, before
a dive, show my buddy where each important bit of my gear was, how to release
my weight belt, etc, as one man's gear often differs from another's.)

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