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From: <bdi@wh*.ne*>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 10:56:56 +1000
To: <CAPTZEROOO@ao*.co*>
Subject: Re: Wings
Cc: melendez@bi*.co*, techdiver@aquanaut.com
At 11:47 AM 31/05/1998 EDT, CAPTZEROOO@ao*.co* wrote:
>Sometimes the old ways are best. 
>
>If you were in a wetsuit and regular BCD you would have one inflation device.
>If it failed you could drop your weight belt and get up.

How would you hold your deco stops?

>If you dive a BOYANT  dry suit like a unisuit. you have one inflation device.
>If the suit tears it is possible to inflat another area of the suit by
>altering you body position. If that fails, you can drop yoiur weight belt.
>Same Same like diving a wet suit. A BC with a dry suit is one extra piece of
>gear to fuck up or fuck with. Un less you dive two BCs with a wet suity you
>are really the same position as me. 

How would you hold your deco stops in this case?

>I belive that Diveshops started the BC with a drysuit crap to sell more BCs .
>Because your wet suit usually does not fit over the drysuit. Instant sale of
>BC with every drysuit. If you have a nonboyant suit with no weight belt, my
>method would not be viable.

Captain Zero - what am I missing? What about deco
with no weight belt. It sounds like if you use the
'drop your weightbelt' option, you bend the snot
out of yourself. Which makes it, sort of, a non-option.

What'd I miss?

rgrds    billyw

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