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Now Jim, There you go again, you know you shouldn't be solo diving!!! The PADI Police (or should I say Patsy Police) will show up and take you C-Card and confiscate your mains. Then you'll have to dive your stages and do breath-hold diving. Then where will you be??? :-) Art. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Cobb [SMTP:cobber@ci*.co*] Sent: Friday, May 01, 1998 8:12 AM To: William M. Smithers; KybrSose Cc: SHPWRK@ao*.co*; Tech Diver Subject: Re: just when you thought Hey, you know this product might actually help to legitimize solo diving, call it the robo-buddy or something catchy. If it does that, hell, I'm all for it. Jim On 5/1/98 12:36 AM William M. Smithers wrote: > >I dunno guys. I am certainly going to continue to use >a totally separate pony bottle for recreational dives, >but all this thing really does is top off via a check >valve from an existing source. Beats the hell out >of a spare air, since it has 6cu ft vs. 2.7 for the >spare air. And you can take the whole assembly and >screw it into a 13 cu. ft bottle, which is enough to >give adequate bailout for most recreational scenarios. > >I think the product has a valid niche in recreational >diving. Obviously, once you cross over that grey line >into tech diving, *all* of these bailout solutions >are rediculous. But basically, the thing is just >a self-filling small pony bottle with an integrated >first stage. > >Cave diving "Hogarthian" barely applies to recreational diving, >so don't over-extend the model. Granted, I wear a singles >and Jr. wings for AL80 singles reef diving, because it feels freer - kinda >like boxers vs. briefs - but lets face it, recreational equipment >is fine for recreational "buddy" diving, and this product is clearly >aimed at the recreational market. > >After all, nobody is going to take the thing to 350ft, or into >a cave. > >-Will ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix At http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html -- 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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