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In a message dated 7/22/98 3:53:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, zimmmt@au*.al*.co* writes: > In this case I am curious to examine some comments you made in another > thread.... on 7/16 you wrote to Tom Mount in Re: Fw: cylinders-BC's etc > > "I (Al) went in, diving my hp steel 100's in as near a hogarthian fashion > as I could.." ^^^^ > > Al, this sounds awfully like a less than "optimal" configuration. > What does "near" mean? I thought you said if you can't do it > right, you stay dry and play golf? > > As a lemming I learned long long ago that HP steel tanks are > only for strokes. I can dig out quotes from George I am sure. > > I'm being sarcastic there, but hey if you want to tow-the-line Not a problem Mike, I understand you need all sorts of explainations, because you cant get the simplest idea through your thick skull, besides the idea that "Mike is always right." MIke I was diving those HP 100's solo, wet and using regular old nitrox, not a molecule of Helium in sight. Why? Well I blew a dry suit seal, and they dont just slap those right back on, it takes a while. I know you are just freaking ignorant about dry suits because double bladder wings are so much freaking better, so Ill grant you that. I was diving solo because I was the mate that day, and we dont throw a dozen divers in when the mission means i'm not going far from the hook. The other mate is on the bow, managing the anchor line and 90% ready to jump in if i tug like mad, or exceed my max tie in time__if im not back in fifteen minutes they throw in someone else, or if my bubbles stop they thow in someone else. Often I either dont leave the anchor or I pick up a buddy after I give the "tied in" sign. I dive those tanks wet because they get floaty as they get empty, not negative. I dont do it often, but they were the only nitrox I had ready on hand. The other stuff was too hot or air. I still use the damn tanks becasue no body wants to buy them, unless you give them away. G has said he still has tanks he hates, that he still uses them for o2 bottles. I have other items that are "non standard" that i use, I have lights that are overvolted pieces of shit but i use them because i cant afford the good ones. My snaps are all brass, becasue the only big stainless like I need, I saw for 14 bucks a snap and I need at least twenty of em. I am trying not to buy more of the crap, because of the money. I understand money problems, but the answer is not buying more crap gear cause its cheaper, or trying to bullshit your way around the problem. The place Im living in I cant have big cylinders , they practically shit about the scuba bottles as it is. So I cant make my own mix, and you know about the agency route for it. I try to dial the nitroxes down and I dont dive deep- deep. That being said yes I was doing it wrong that day. I can admit that. Now can you do the same and admit that the bondage--Im sorry,you dont use bungee, the double bladder wing is less than an ideal piece of gear? Al Marvelli PS ... And while we are looking at previous posts, you never told me why you cant use double al 80's with the numbers to back it up. What do you want to do in that warm water, where consumption should be less, that requires more than 160 cubic ft of gas? -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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