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George, Do you ever see the price coming down to where us poor folks can afford them? Roger At 07:24 AM 1/3/98 -0500, you wrote: >Senor Amigo, you can come take your pick out of my garage: they work, >they are for sale. You can have the Halcyon, the Halcyon 2, the Ocean >version, the Cave version, or just an off-the-shelf version. These >rebreathers hold the records for cave diving, along with Olivier >Isler's, and we all use them for whatever we want to do with no hassle. >Brownies has several in stock, I see them being used on Erol's boat all >of the time, and Bill Mee, Robert Carmichael, Errol and I, Brent, JJ, >Joey, Paul, Tom Mount and others have had them for a long time, as in a >couple of years. I am on my third one. > >I have never aborted a rebreather dive on this thing even in the >development stage, and have never had a problem that was not solvable >underwater with no disrutpiopn to the dive. I can fix it myself, and it >always works. I know exactly how much gas I am going to use, and can >plan incredible cave dives with it at any depth. The deco is the same as >for open circuit, and it allows any gas to be used. > >It is the simplest , easiest rebreather to use, and unlike the >electronic models, I have more time with mine than the UPS drivers. The >reason there is an imbalance between supply and demand is that the deamd >is for things that do not exist or actually work, the magic carpets of >diving. There are no shortcuts and "there is nothing new under the sun". > >If you really want to dive, get a Halcyon. If youi want to strut around >claiming "tech", call the usual suspects. >Roberto Bagnasco wrote: >> >> The more I look at this, the more I cannot believe it. >> >> This is is really strange situation, there are people out there with the >> money and the will to buy a rebreather, but there is no machine to buy. >> There is definitely a big demand and no offer. What a peculiar economical >> situation. >> >> There is people out there ready to dive with a machine that has been around >> for 20 years, there is people diving with russian machines! There is people >> that makes their own! >> I dive my semi closed, and we are all waiting for something that really works. >> I have the feeling we will have to wait a while. >> >> Roberto >> >> >-- >> >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >> >> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< <<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>> >> < > >> < > >> < "Memento audere semper" > >> < > >> < > >> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< <<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>> >> >> -- >> Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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