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On 8/11/97 4:41 PM Anthony.Appleyard wrote: > ... where can I get a diver's <BALLAST BAG> that I can wear instead of a > weight belt, and on site fill it for free with sand or stones that I can > jettison without finance-induced reluctance?!? This would also benefit > countless ordinary air scuba divers that get fed up of carting > hundredweights of lead across country, and back up steep slopes from the > water when tired from diving ... Jim Cobb <cobber@mi*.co*> replied:- > I recommend that you eat rocks. Then shit them out when you need the > buoyancy. This is how the French Foreign Legion does it. But then those guys > are some tough mothers. Joking apart, seals and crocodiles actually do swallow stones for ballast (and to help to grind up their prey). But my gut isn't designed that way. Read my original message again. But likely the diving gear trade doesn't want to lose the trade in replacement lead weights for people who lost theirs. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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