Christalmight, what a story. I hereby nominate Wrolf to be the East Coast 
Poster Boy for Fucked Up, Convoluted, Kamakazi Diving Rigs.

And for runner-ups I would like to nominate Capt. Hank Garvin, Capt. 
Janet Bieser, and the crew of the Wahoo for a) letting Wrolf on their 
boat with that rig and b) letting Wrolf dive off their boat with that 
rig. You guys need to draw a line somewhere.

This tale of misadventure is the best indictment of independent doubles I 
have seen yet, among other things. Wrolf, where did you get your 
training, from Diver Dan comic books? How come you do not know how to 
recover from a feet first ascent?

Why would you jump in deep water without knowing precisely what your 
buoyancy situation is? Thats suicidal. Now if you had been under IANTD 
instruction we all would have understood, but you were alone, right?

 Jim

On 5/30/98 9:46 AM Mark Melendez wrote:

>Wrolf Courtney wrote:
>> After my little mishap on Saturday (see
>> http://www.concentric.net/~Wrolf), I am also looking at a BC.
>
>Wrolf,
>I read the account of your "little mishap";
>
>http://www.concentric.net/~Wrolf/blowingup.html
>
>first I found it very amusing then I realised, this is a very scary
>story. Did you train yourself? Because you're making basic mistakes that
>can kill you. Like, why are you diving with doubles with no BC? How did
>you "forget" to adjust your weight belt for the extra bouyant steel
>tanks? Don't you square away all your gear before you go on a dive?


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