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> You must have needed a nap by then, eh? They've been holding these > discussions about the CIS Lunar unit longer than they've been diving. > It's going to ship anytime now. At least that's what they've been > saying for the past 4 plus years. 6 months late, ok. 1 year late, > hum? 4 years late - laughingstock. Sort of like the BMD, err... Odessey, err...Halcyon -- and just about any other model of rebreather other than the Atlantis. It seems to be a pretty common pattern. > Rich is a nice guy and since he dives a free rebreather he cannot > do anything but talk nicely about them but he is not doing any > 2-3 hour bottom times at serious depth with this toy. Thanks for regarding me as a nice guy. The rebreather I have been using was certainly not free. I paid Cis-Lunar a substantial sum of money to rent the MK-4, and in addition I am paying the full $15K purchase price for the MK-5 (which is in my livingroom right now, about to be packed for an expedition to Palau - see bottom of this message). No free rides here. Incidentally, this constitutes more than my annual salary. How many other folks out there can say they've spent an entire year's salary on a piece of dive gear? Maybe George can tell us what he paid for his Halcyon, and then tell us how much he earns for a living. The longest single-dive bottom time I've done in excess of 300 feet on the MK4 was 75 minutes. However, on several occassions I have done two dives in a single day more than an hour each below 300 feet (that pattern is better for me because I get to explore two different reefs in one day, and extra time at depth yields diminishing returns for new species at a single dive site). But like I keep telling George: Diving is not a competitive sport. He could do 20-hour bottom times for all I care. I'm not in it for the glory - my motivation is discovery and exploration. The diving is just a means, not an end. > Then there's Stonehead - a legend in his own mind. I hear he's > going for the Lockwood record this time around, but he's out to > do it all on one dive. Have you ever wondered why nobody ever rebuts George's endless stream of lies about Stone and his plans at Wakulla? I'll give you a hint: I was talking to Bill on the phone this morning, and I was laughing so loud that I almost woke my daughter up. If George ever realized how incredibly far off the mark he is, and how little he really knows about it, he might stop providing us with so much entertainment -- and nobody want to take that risk. But I'm only in it for the laughs. Caves are of no interest to me, and there are no politics in deep coral reef exploration. Aloha, Rich P.S. In case anyone is interested, I am leaving for Palau tomorrow for two and a half-weeks of deep-reef exploration, using the Cis-Lunar Mk-5 rebreather (an amazing feat, considering this unit purportedly does not exist). In fact, we are taking 4 C-L rebreathers with us, and we plan a lot of fun dives. For those of you with access to the WWW, you can check out our Palau Expedition web page at: http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/treks/palautz97/ Starting May 4th, I plan to update the page with daily log reports, including graphs showing our weenie dive profiles, and photographs of new species we discover. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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