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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 18:12:01 -0500
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
From: "E.J. Sadler" <ejsadler@Pa*.ne*>
Subject: Re: Deep Nitrox/Air classes up North?
If I wasn't very familiar with the state of diving in the midwestern Great
Lakes I would say this is a perfectly crafted troll.


E.J.


>Hi,
>
>I'm new to this list and haven't had time to read many of
>the posts have been previously posted, but it does look
>interesting.  How long has this mail list been together?
>
>What I'm looking for is to find out if there is an
>instructor in the upper Michigan area who teaches
>Deep Nitrox and Deep Air diving.  I have a few friends
>and I who've been diving some of the wrecks in
>Lake Superior, and we want to do some deeper dives
>next season.  We figured that if we had the card
>we may be able to take some of the charters available
>up there.  We've been diving nitrox this year, and have
>been doing some pretty deep dives, like 150 or so.
>We use Aga masks, double 120's or single 120's with
>30's as backup.
>We figured that if we wanted to do deeper dives we
>would probably be best off with double independent
>120's and a 3 way valve so we could dive 26-28%
>nitrox down to maybe 150, and then switch to
>air from 150 to bottom.  That would save us some
>deco time, right?   We don't want to go
>extreme, but maybe 220-225' or so.  We want to
>keep our PO2's below 1.6, and we don't have
>the money to get into mixed gas right now.
>
>If you know an instructor that wouldn't mind
>showing us the ropes of deep air and
>technical nitrox, could you put me in touch
>with them?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Steve
>
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