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Subject: Re: OMS wings problems
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 21:34:17 -0500
From: Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*>
To: "Mskilton" <Mskilton@ao*.co*>, "Tech Diver" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Look, Michael, I have said this before and I will say it again. I and 
nobody else gives a flying fuck how you configure yourself.

Go ahead and use stuperwings, hell, if you're that paranoid why not use 2 
sets of (in your case) stuporwings? I mean then you would be have 4X 
redundancy, right? Using your logic that would be twice as good as one 
set, right? So why don't you? Why stop at just dual bladders? What if the 
case burst on these super-de-duperwings? BOTH sets of bladders would be 
useless. Why don't you use 2 sets of these, Michael, huh, HUH? Comon man, 
I'm just a stupid bounce diver, explain this to me, oh dive god.

Hey what if you run out of air, how will you fill these 4 bladders, well 
hell you'd better take along a pony with a H valve and 2 regs so you have 
a backup BC inflation system. Oh, and what if a shark carries away your 
mask? Better take 2 of those. And you need to access a knife no matter 
where your hands are, so you need one on your shoulder, belt and both 
legs. And what if you are adrift  and the boat left you? Well, you need a 
tube, epirb, extra water and a VHF radio. OH NO! Your hungry while 
drifting at sea, better take some food bars with you! Don't forget a 
inflatable boat! A color TV, a generator! My god what if the helicopter 
which came to rescue you forgot it's lift basket, better equip yourself 
with a complete rappeling harness and an extra 50 of line, carabiners, 
and ascenders. You would be a stupid asshole if you didn't.

So Michael, go ahead and don your double stuperwings, tranpack, and other 
happy horseshit, I could not care less. And if you are so tubular and 
blindered that you would rather listen to marketing people to decide how 
to equip yourself rather than people who actually dive, go right ahead. 
It's a free country, knock yourself out, dude. I have tried both methods 
and it did not take a 2X4 between MY eyes to recognize the best system.

On 3/20/98 7:34 PM Mskilton wrote:

>So everything but" END OF THE LINE" is fake diving? So is what your saying is
>that the "REAL" divers "PERSONAL PREFRENCE" is to use other gear? I' m sure
>"stuperwings" work just fine for most of the non-pro's who use them. And so,
>if you would share your "REAL" diving experince's,  so I can count you as a
>"PRO,"  I'll bow down to your equipment choices and humbly sumit that I'll
>never be the awsome diver that you must be. Or is this list just for 
>"PRO'S" ?
>Love your T-mix page
>michael 


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