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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 20:46:26 -0500
From: "G. Irvine" <gmirvine@sa*.ne*>
Organization: Woodville Karst Plain Project
To: oceanquest diving centre <diving@oq*.de*.co*.uk*>
CC: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: Re: deep air, diving, dying
Your friend Plamer said "30 meters" in his book. That is a good place to
start using mix, to answer your question, ans since you are a tech
instructor, you will actually get to teach tech diving, not drunk
driving. Good luck.

oceanquest diving centre wrote:
> 
> I'm new to this news group and have followed with great interest the on
> going discussion about deep air diving.  the tone of some messages
> posted on this subject, in my opinion, are less than likely to produce
> anything other than a continuation of the slanging match. This aside, as
> a TDI Instructor, I'm a little confused! Isn't the absolute limit for
> air dives 66m? If there is clear aurgument for reducing this -should we
> not all be interested in reducing that further? (Incidently have noted
> the information about adding deeper stops -thanks). Rob Palmer was the
> instructor on my Nitrox Instructor course - I thought he was a generous,
> humble, deeply likeble human being - a pioneer. However his death should
> make it clear to all that deep air diving, I hear the stories, ' we did
> 130m', is madness.
> 
> As a diving professional my loyalties are to the people I teach! not to
> any individual, newsgroup, training organisation, intellectual bully.
> However facts are facts and we we all ignore them at our peril!
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