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At 10:29 PM 11/5/97 -0400, Jim Cobb wrote: >Some people are happy with the 80 and bolt routine and have thousands of >dives doing just that. Some people are either a bit more adventurous or >are forced by local conditions to dive deeper. And if you want to dive >deeper and spend some time down there, you gotta pay the piper (and pay >and pay and pay) get the proper gear and knowledge. On my way back from diving the wrecks in Bikini, I stopped in to get a couple of dives in Hawaii. I won't mention the name of the shop, but here is my experience. First, I wasn't allowed to dive Nitrox on 60' dives. I was told it was dangerous, and that it wasn't allowed on Maui. We did three dives to sixty feet and I did a safety stop. I had about twelve hours underwater in the last week. I was on the long tour of the three groups on the boat, but I still had 800 psi left so I hung at 10' for a while. I find that I feel better if I off gas underwater even if I am OK to come up. The divemaster swam up to me in alarm and checked my computer. She thought I was in decompression!!!! The next day when I phoned to cancel any more dives with them, she expressed concern that I was hurt. It amazes me how some people are blind to using appropriate gasses for the dive. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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