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Jim Cobb wrote: > >When was the last time you orally inflated anything on a tech dive??? > > What kind of stupid question is that? You are saying that all manual > inflators should be removed from all BCs becauses YOU have never used > one? Say, you don't have a bucket on your head, do you? No bucket here, in fact, I learned to dive a long time ago, when there were no autoinflators. Everything was manual, I did plenty of manual inflation, and auto inflators were considered uneeded and 'tekkie'. Today they are SOP. And I didn't say anyone had to do anything, or remove anything. I just asked a pretty simple and intelligent question. You said "in my experience" so I asked for you to explain your experience. But I guess the 'experience' you are refering to is your conjecture. > >I would like to hear of your personal CF experience where the 2nd inflator > >contributed to the task load. > > OK, it was a dark and story night... Listen, numbnuts, remember that > first time you tried to take off your girlfriends bra (assuming you're > not a homo), didn't it piss you off when you discovered that there was > not 1, not 2, but 3 or even more clips back there? Why were there so many > clips, because 1 could not do the job? No, because the No.1 fear of > adolescent girls is that a single clip might fail and the goodies will > fall out for every to see. So the bra manufacturers outdid themselves by > adding multiple clips to satisfy the "1 clip theory" girlish paranoia. My first girlfriend did not have any of this paranoia, had the front clip type bra, and took it off when I politely asked her to so I never did have to struggle like your 'experience'. > Thusly, OMS stuper bondage wings are the training bra of the Tech diver > industry. Easop, one day you too will graduate to a "1 clip" once you > overcome your adolescent, irrational fear of the unknown. This irrational fear of the unkown is foriegn to me. I have seen with my own eyes inflators and bladders fail on dives. And I have never had the bungees force air out of my wings or been entangled by my backup inflator even when it was not elegantly configured out of the way. Also I have used my drysuit as backup BC on tech dives and I do not trust the neck seal, and it is very uncomfortable, my rate minute volume went way up. Most of all, I have only heard conjecture about how bondage double bladder wings are dangerous. No one has posted substantiated accounts of them causing incidents or deaths, which brings us back to the origianl posts. Trusting the cave diving elite in Florida with their propensity for exageration and making unsubstantiated claims is impossible. Put up or shut up. Where are the accounts of these wings causing deaths? Tom -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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