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Jim Cobb wrote:

> In my experience-
>
> * The bondage make it difficult to orally inflate the wings.

When was the last time you orally inflated anything on a tech dive???

> * The bondage keep your center of buoyancy underneath your tanks rather
> than at the sides.
> * The bondage ruins your streamlining, they create extra drag.
> * The addition of an 2nd inflator contributes to task loading in CF
> conditions.

I would like to hear of your personal CF experience where the 2nd inflator
contributed to the task load.

> * The addition of an additional inflator hose increases failure and
> entanglement points.
> * Their additional cost is not mitigated by additional usefulness.
>
> But I have to admit that since getting rid of mine, the tech groupie
> babes are not flocking around me as they used to. So I made up for it by
> strapping 12" pig-stickers to both my legs, gluing a pair of Viking horns
> to my hood and attaching some fake chest hair to the outside of my
> drysuit.

Here I think you have it all wrong. The horns and the fake hair are
convoluted stroke gear application and a procedure instead of equipment would
have sufficed. I think practicing oral inflation of your wings on a Pamala
Anderson blow up doll would have been a bit more Hogarthian :-).

Tom

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