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In a message dated 7/17/98 1:59:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, zimmmt@au*.al*.co* writes: > If I don't need the warmth and you have just admitted that I don't wear > it "merely" for the buoyancy, then the 2nd bladder is a much simpler > solution. > You just insisted that I add a drysuit and an argon bottle to dive in 80 > degree water just so I can wear high capacity steel tanks. > > I thought the philosophy was to not take what you don't need. I have 78 to 80 degree water in the swiming pool in the backyard. I get an hour to an hour and a half in my bathing suit before I am uncomfortable, even on a really hot day. I dont have to worry about getting _bent_ in the pool, so I dont mind it. Maybe you are sometype of superhuman strongman, a physiological freak if you will. I am not. I would advise anyone planning a long dive to stay as warm as possible, to avoid thermal injury and DCI caused by thermal injury. The best way to do this and also provide redundant buoyancy is a drysuit. Which brand of steel tank are you going to dive?? I can swim my hp gennies wet with no problem. My LP PST 95's forget it. I have not dove the oms tank, I am now planning on borrowing a pair just to satisify my curosity. I have been told by their owners that they are similar to hp's as far as buoyancy and buoyancy shift during a dive. ( they start negative and float at the end) Furthermore I didnt insist you do anything. You are free to do what you like. You may not get me to agree with what your doing, but its your choice to do it, and it is my right to call you a fool for doing so, even if you dont like me doing so. Personally im bored with this discussion now too, because its obivious your trying to score some magical points with someone, and I dont give a rats ass about that. And as far as your assumption that I dive hogarthian because its the cool thing to do, its your right to say that, but it is WRONG. The system was suggested to me as being better than the way I used to do things, and it has proven itself to be so by the weight of my own personal experience. I would suggest to you that opening your mind and trying these ideas out is far better than pointless debates. I continue to seek actual facts about the OMS wing, of which you have provided NONE. Al Marvelli aka KybrSose@ao*.co* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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