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Yes, Jeremy, it's a constant battle of good and evil. And I, with feet in both worlds, have to walk the fine line or suffer castigation. Here's how the thought process works: "Hmmmm, who's this guy over here? Oh, no, he breathing the long hose! he must be one of those goddamn nazi hogarth fanatics, where's my knife! But wait, he's got a computer so he can't be all that bad! Waaaait a minute, where the hell his bungies!?! Why I oughta.... Oh, he has a neoprene drysuit, hew! had me worried. Wha, whaaaat? What's that, a fucking cave light?!? Why that no good, rotten...." Anyway in the sea of pony bottles, bungies, stuffed hoses etc. etc. I still would have been easy to pick out as the NE DIR rep. I'm getting there, Jeremy. One thing that was interesting, on my support dive of the hard-core guys who did the 300' Washington dive only a couple were fully DIR rigged but NONE used dual-bladder wings. Are they out of touch or something? Or do the vet's realize what useless POS they are? Hmmmm. I also noticed another item, "poor man's argon", i.e. use your nitrox stage to fill your drysuit rather than the trimix in your back gas. Never thought of that. I guess with cavers leaving stages you could not do this but with wreckers taking their gas with them... Jim Sender: Jeremy Downs Date: 8/11/98 2:01 PM >Jim- >Computers, stroke suits, bad regs, O2 only at 10'!!!! All this from the >NEast leader of DIR,,,,,,, Tell me it's not true! :^) > > >At 09:26 AM 8/11/98 -0400, Jim Cobb wrote: >>Had a nice dive on the Mexicana yesterday. After a 4.5 hour boat trip >>through calm seas we hooked up at about noon. Surface temp was 75F with >>vis at about 100'. Going down the line there was a murky layer at the >>(60') butt-cold thermocline (47F), and about 50-60 on the bottom (140). A >>pretty good .5-1Kt current was running on the first dive but calmed down >>for the subsequent dives. >> >>This ship was originally thought to be the Baruque with subsequent >>discoveries point to the Mexicana. This is a WWII era wreck and the ship >>sits upright with most of the deck plating rusted away but much of the >>framework intact. This is one beautiful wreck, very ghostly as it was >>dark under the layer of plankton, and with classic lines. Without a doubt >>one of the prettiest wrecks on the east coast. >> >>The goal was to bring up an object thought to be the bell to prove >>exactly what ship this was. The "bell" was trapped under several loading >>booms and the concerted effort of six divers with hammers, crowbars and >>lift bags could not break it loose. Finally the ultimate lift bag was >>attached to object...The Miss Lindsey. This succeeded in bringing up the >>object but it turned out to be an ornate binnacle with a bell-shaped >>bottom. Still a nice find! >> >>Also brought up was the rest of the engine room telegraph (the majority >>was found on a previous dive) one of the compass balls and a couple of >>other items which still need identifying. >> >>Some small articles were found including a brass hand rail, coat hooks, a >>rack holder, a Mexican silver coin and the key to the ships clock. The >>fishermen in the crew brought up several lobsters and tautaug. >> >>I was giving a Nitek3 a workout. I had a 50/50 stage and 02 bottle and it >>was fun to watch your deco time disappear as you selected the appropriate >>mix. The versatility of computer diving showed when my 50/50 reg blew out >>it's diaphram (U.S. Divers) and I had to go to back mix for my pre-10 >>foot stops. No problem, I just switched the Nitek3 to back gas and hung >>longer. >> >> Jim >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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'. >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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