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There just is no good reason to have them. Scooters, thought they may seem fast, are traveling at around 150 feet per minute, or 1.75 miles per hour. That is the speed of a SLOW walk. Now if I bang my head while moving at that speed on land, I may let out a few choice words, but I doubt I will do any real damage. In fact, if I walked around on land with a wetsuit hood on and banged my head, I might only say "darn!" If you are only swimming, and not even scootering, well, you get the idea. The bad point is that if your long hose is where it should be, (behind your neck) the helmet is a snagging point as you go to give it up. Same with a proper light. When surveying or writing notes, the light cord goes behind the neck. As for helmet mounted lights, well, that just shows a complete lack of thought about ones gear. How do you signal "OK" with a helmet mounted light? Or distress? Everytime you look at something, your buddy is going to think you are signalling and everytime you look at your buudy you will blind him. In short, it may seem to some that helmets look "tech chic" but there really just is no reason to have them in a wet filled cave. Trout ---------- > From: Pete Young <youngpk@in*.bt*.co*.uk*> > To: gmirvine@sa*.ne* > Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: Re: Scuba World Interview with George Irvine > Date: Wednesday, January 07, 1998 3:19 AM > > > Incidentally George, what is it that you don't like about helmets? > Streamlining, or is there something else? > > Regards > > Pete > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Pete Young pete.young@bt*.bt*.co*.uk* Phone +44 1473 605525 > "Just another crouton, floating on the bouillabaisse of life" > -- > 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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