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Subject: Re: Ballast bag
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 97 14:17:26 -0400
From: Jim Cobb <cobber@mi*.co*>
To: <Anthony.Appleyard@um*.ac*.uk*>, "Tech Diver" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>

You mean this was a serious post? I thought it was a troll. You mean to 
tell me that you can't rig up some sort of BC? Seems this would make more 
sense than a drop-ballast system. After all you are a diver, not a 
bathyscapth. You go up, you go down, you go up, you go down, etc.

   Jim

On 8/12/97 2:19 PM Anthony.Appleyard wrote:

>  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.
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