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Robert,

If you can't become positive on the surface without your bc, then you've
missed a basic skill in your open--water, or your rig is complete cluster
fuck.

Dive Safe



At 09:30 21/07/1998 -0400, <Robert.Lockard@nc*.na*.mi*> wrote:

>     OK, time for my nickel on the subject.  
>     
>     1. Can you make it to the surface without your bc?
>     2. If you can make it to the surface, can you stay there with out your 
>     bc.
>     3. George, has your bc ever failed, and you had to tread water with 
>     out the aid of flotation?  If this did happen to you, how long did you 
>     have to tread water, how tired where you on a scale of 1 - 10?  10 
>     being exhausted.  What was your tank, backpack configuration?
>       a. This has never happened to me, so I plan on trying it in the 
>     pool.
>       b. If I can stay on the surface for 20min with out tiring, then my 
>     rig (tank configuration) is right for me.  If not, then I need to 
>     change my rig.
>     
>     Dive Safe
>     Robert

Sid.Dive@Ib*.Ne*
Toronto, Canada

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