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You want something positive about stuporwings? The Subaru Outback ad comes to mind: Well, you _did_ pay a whole lot more... And that can be a positive aspect if you have too much cash laying around. Jim On 7/16/98 1:04 PM Mike Zimmerman wrote: >Jim, > >you guys make me laugh. You find it so completely impossible to find >anything positive about the OMS wings. When you are one SO one-sided >how can you expect to have any credibility? > >I've been focusing on ONE very specific concept. Is having a >backup bladder more of a plus than it is a minus? And you guys >keep dodging the question like Custer trying to deny he was losing >at his last stand. > >You insist everyone spend $1500 for a custom DUI drysuit (gotta Do It Right >after all) just so they can dive high capacity tanks, when then could spend >maybe an incremental $100 and purchase OMS dual-bladder wings from >the get-go and again have the backup buoyancy. No one says you have >to put the bungees on. > >As for the deaths, 2 things. > >First the bungees may or may not have had anything to do with them, >but that has NOTHING to do with the argument of backup buoyancy as >a plus or not. > >Second, we have at least one diver (and I suspect the Doria diver >would as well) that was wearing a drysuit, what you preach for backup >buoyancy. Maybe the problems were more in gear configuration >(ie being so comletely negative) and not in their choice of wings.... >shall we blame the drysuit instead? > >Anyway I'm done. I've chased you over the entire issue, you refuse >to stand still and give an answer to the question at hand. > >In case you've forgotten it, the question is to explain how >the 2nd bladder adds more failure points than wearing a drysuit. > >When you care to stop dodging and to answer, just let me know. > >Mike > ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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'.
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