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Hi Ken, you are right. RB's and mixed gas in caves is a hot topic here at the moment. The CDAA which controls most of the caves here is quite behind the times. I believe their is a depth limit, something like 40m , but because gas is outlawed in caves and most people ignore the limit once they are underwater away from prying eyes, they do dive deep on air. The ocean is a different story though the majority still dive deep air there too. Scott At 09:58 25/01/98 +0000, you wrote: >Scott, > >Try diving a rebreather or diving trimix in a cave there. I >understand those are strict no-no's. The trimix part I don't get, >I've heard it is supposedly ok to dive air to 90M in caves there, but >not the right gas. > >Ken > >> From: <diver@ch*.ne*.au*> >> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 13:22:15 +1100 >> To: techdiver@aquanaut.com >> Subject: Tech diving >> Cc: wwm@sa*.ne* > >> >Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:05:26 -0500 >> >From: Bill Mee <wwm@sa*.ne*> >> >Subject: BAD NEWS: Fallout from the WPB tragedy >> <snip> >> >Australia openly outlaws some forms of technical diving. Now "technical >> >diving" will be de facto outlawed here by the unavailability of >> >breathing gas. The WKPP will still be able to obtain gas and dive it's >> >permitted sites, but what about you? >> <snip> >> >> >Sorry folks, >> > >> >Bill Mee >> >-- >> >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >> >> Bill where did you get the idea that 'some forms' of Techdiving are outlawed >> in Australia? What do you mean? I dived my homebuilt rebreather off a >> charter boat in Sydney yesterday and got no complaints or problems. I >> haven't experienced any 'outlawing' of techdiving however it certainly isn't >> as popular here as in the States. >> >> If gas sales are banned over there It will just revert to what it was before >> tech diving became 'popular' ie. Backyard fills etc by those interested >> enough to find out how its done rather than people paying for a dive course >> and getting a card that says they are capable of killing themselves. This >> might act as a filter for idiots and make it safer anyway. >> >> Regards, >> Scott Leimroth >> >> Australian Amateur Rebreather Group >> http://www.chilli.net.au/~diver >> >> -- >> 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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