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Drew , you do not dive double steels in warm water. Cold water you would have a drysuit. Since you can develop 45 pounds of lift with your Jetfins, you get out of it anyway. Also, by the way, fire coral is a nematocyst, and as such does not bother the fronts of your hands - you can grab it all you want. Drew Mooney wrote: > > You're on a wall dive shooting video anywhere in the Caribbean. You're > in a wetsuit at let's say 130' (40m) you're wearing double steel > tanks and breathing air. You reach for your inflator hose to make an > adjustment and feel a sickening WHOOSH of air as the hose separates > from the elbow where it joins your BCD. You are now VERY negative and > out of reach of your buddy. The wall in your vicinity is on an inverse > incline, so there's not even a convenient projection of coral - and > even if there were, it's all fire coral of a variety that would cause > a few moments of excrutiating pain followed by local paralysis of > whatever extremity of yours comes in contact with it. (willing > suspension of disbelief be damned!) and you're not wearing gloves > anyway. > > So. Do you nosedive to save the remaining air in your BC even though > this posture is almost certainly going to accelerate your descent? > > Do you flare and angle your right side up to keep a little air in your > BC and try to re-attach the hose using the difficult, > over-the-shoulder-blind technique? > > Do you go head up and kick like crazy to maintain your depth, or at > least slow your descent a bit? Knowing that doing so is certain to > release the last bit of air in your BC bladder. > > Damn your ears hurt! > > Do you try the much touted, but seldom practiced skill of inflating > your wetsuit sleeves / legs with one of your second stages? Are you > wearing a long hose? Are you breathing it? Or is it stuffed behind you > where you can't reach it for some reason? If you haven't practiced > this skill, is it likely that it'll occur to you to try it considering > the amount of fecal matter flitting off of the rotating blades at this > point? > > Do you take a mighty breath, grab your Spare Air, doff your kit and > kick for the surface like there's no tomorrow? > > The deeper you allow yourself to fall, the stupider you're gonna get. > As your stupidity increases, so does the likelihood you'll panic > increase, and at that point, kiss your ass goodbye. > > So. What would YOU do? > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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