The Crew on the Wahoo is some of the best in the business.  I have seen
them jump off their boat many times to swim after some-one from another
vessel, when people from the divers own boat wouldn't even get in the
water.  If all of the charter boat Captains had to qualify every diver they
let on their vessels, 90% of you guys bitching would never be allowed on a
boat.    Bob Sherwood
(accept)
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> From: William M. Smithers <will@tr*.co*>
> To: janet bieser <wahoo-capt.janet@ju*.co*>
> Cc: eschmidt@pu*.br*.fl*.us*; techdiver@aquanaut.com
> Subject: Wahoo Safety Record (was Re: Dry Suit Diving.)
> Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 7:15 AM
> 
> 
> Janet, 
> 
> This is good advice, but your dive boat still has the
> single worst safety record of any in the NorthEast.
> 
> (check the Coast Guard records).
> 
> Let's see now, I think it was *twice* this summer
> that I heard over the radio "Wahoo, wahoo, we have
> one of your divers".
> 
> I'm not even going to mention the time a couple years
> back that you guys forgot to do a head count and left 
> a guy hanging on a bouy miles out to sea.  Oh, nevermind, 
> I guess I just did.
> 
> That said, I'm sure you have taken measures to make sure this
> matter gets cleaned up.  Would you care to detail them for
> the techdiving public?
> 
> -Will
> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, janet bieser wrote:
> 
> > eric,
> > 
> > one of the most important things is to make sure you can comfortably
> > preform your decompression stops at the end of your dive when your air
> > tanks are relatively empty and more buoyant . If you are too buoyant to
> > decompress you will be miserable and struggling to stay down may mess
up
> > your decompression , and will increase your gas consumption .All those
> > huge lungs fulls of air as you struggle just  makes you more bouyant
and
> > aggravates the situation.
> >  you want to be able to keep enough air or argon in the dry suit so you
> > stay warm . the whole point to having a dry suit is the insulation from
> > the cold water that the gas in the suit gives you . the more "fluffed
up"
> > you are the warmer you will stay ......but you have to balance the need
> > to swim against the maximum inflation of the suit . how bulky do you
want
> > to be ? all that air needs lead or steel back plates, tanks  and  light
> > battery packs  to drag it down .
> >  In the real world  everyone dives slightly overweigted so that they
can
> > be certain they have enough negativeness to decompress and keep a good
> > amount of air in their  suit . you compensate for the extra weight at
the
> > start of the dive by adding air to your buoyancy compensator and to
your
> > suit . dump air from the buoyancy compensator as the tanks get lighter
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