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Jeff- First off I think it is safe to assume that the target audience of the TechDiver mailing list is people who do the kind of diving where setting up hogarthian is a good idea. This is not rec.scuba, so who cares if you are a neophyte? If someone is contemplating doing extended range diving and they can't afford the correct equipment, then they have taken up the wrong sport, haven't they? Can you imagine if this was a skydiving forum and someone did a post describing a way to make a parachute out of old bedsheets? "For those of you who want to take up skydiving but can't afford a parachute, I have successfully created a perfectly good parachute out of used Holiday Inn bedsheets. And to save more money, I have been collecting used dental floss to weave economical chute lines." Well, ideas of this calibre are being posted routinely on this forum. And it is up to George to call these jokers to the carpet and read them the riot act. To use your computer analogy, you are not going to do photoshop filters on 150 meg files on a 486 (or 030 for that matter) are you? Hell no, you just would not do it and wait till you can get the right equipment. The difference here is that if you should try to filter a 150 meg file on that 486, the only way this would kill is of old age. In diving, the death would be swift and cruel. Jim >That is a key point many of you diving "elite" overlook - you guys are >pushing the envelope in most anyone's book, and I'd never question your >gear, your planning, your profiles, etc., with regard to the dives you >are doing. Unfortunately you overlook the 90% (or 99%) of divers that >just "dive on vacation in the Caribbean/South Pacific/Red Sea" that may >question agency-dictated mandates. Do you really expect an open-water >wimp to invest in a Hogarthian rig, with manifolded doubles, to go dive >60fsw in the Keys? In the same breath, if any of these newbie divers >think they can penetrate Wakulla, then by God, give 'em hell. > >Your typical (statistically speaking) diver can't comprehend and/or >afford the "Doing it Right" rig, but might come out cheaper if they >don't chase after the "technical" TransPac, bondage wings, excess gear, >etc. Much like computers - I'd love to have a 200Mhz Pentium Pro with >128Mb RAM, 4Gb disk, 128kbps ISDN modem, 15" monitor, etc., but I just >can't afford it. I use what works for me, within my budget, with >adequate performance. But I'm mostly e-mail, so it works for me. If I >wanted high-res graphics to download pics from Lucy Ho's i might adjust >my configuration. But what I have now works, thank you very much. The >only difference being if my PC crashes, I won't die (another important >point). -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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