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To: techdiver@opal.com
Subject: Re: D-400
From: Scot Anderson <pp000082@in*.co*>
Cc: heinzl@wi*.en*.de*.co*
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 12:58:33 PDT
>
>>Sheck in Mexico.  When I spoke with him last (January this year), he
>>seemed extremely satisfied with it, and told me it worked fine for him
>>down to 700 or 800 feet.  I don't know whether or not Sheck was also using
>>one, or if they were using them at the time of the accident.
>
>What happened deeper than 800' - did it become very hard to breathe
>or did he use a different reg???
>
>According to a conversation that I had with someone at the end of April,
>Sheck did not use the D400.  I don't know what he did use, but they (the 
>D400's) had just arrived and he did not feel comfortable using a regulator 
>he wasn't used to.
>
>Does anyone know what he was using?

Sheck used Odins.

Dives below 600-700 ft or so he would have them bored out.  He said
the stock versions would get a little stiff at depths below that.  
He used Mark 5's on his O2 bottles.


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scot@bt*.co*                                     Scot Anderson
pp000082@in*.co*        Voice: 703/761/6536
CIS:74147.2357                            Fax: 703/556/9290

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