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Subject: Re: Bondage wings
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:05:38 -0400
From: Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*>
To: <DEnig@ao*.co*>
cc: "Tech Diver" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Read the posts. Read the posts. Read the posts. You act like you never 
read the posts. Here, heres one:

Why add something to a wing that is:

A.  Not needed.
B.  If used wrong, can in fact be dangerous. (Bungees too tight)
C.  Causes more drag, then if used w/o it.
D.  Can cuase snags, catch line, cable etc.
E.  Has more failure points...two inflator hoses, two lp connections.
F.  Cost's a BUNCH more.
G.  Have inflators that are being recalled...

Bullet proof a set of Halcyons, Diverites etc with a innertube.  Dive 
80's in
a wetsuit, and wear a dry suit with steel and you don't need the extra
bladder.  All of these things are the Mantra of the DIR philosophy.

Why not wear something that is proven safe.  For most folks, it is more 
then
they need.  But I for one would rather be over safe...  I have something 
like
2000 logged lifetime dives, and I am still learning.  I have entirely 
changed
my views on equipment configuration and feel 110% safe because of it.  
George
and JJ and Bill and Brent and all the WKPP folks have it worked out...and 
are
offering it up...For free...there is no charge for the knowledge of 
thousands
of dives...why not use it and be safer?

My .02 take it or leave it.
Sean Cary
------------------------
Do a search on "OMS" or "stuperwings" in the arcives, then open the 
hundreds of posts and read them. There are many posts by many people 
advising you to get rid of your stuporwings, a mount chorus, chanting 
crowds of people, all saying the same thing. "Stuporwings suck, get rid 
of them". Your argument is not with me it is with the hundreds of people 
who have had stuporwings and got rid of them. Read the posts. Read the 
posts.

 Jim

On 9/2/98 5:10 PM DEnig@ao*.co* wrote:

>So tell me. I'm asking. WHAT are the travesties of design and implementation?
>Specifically. Having never seen you, I don't know how obvious the nose on 
>your
>face is. Please spell out these dangerous differences. Say I take the 
>"bungee"
>off my wings. What then? From that point on, WHERE is the difference between
>my OMS single bladder wing and any other single bladder wing out there? 
>From a
>use stand point I have found my OMS to be more stable (IMHO) and they work 
>for
>me. Come on. Pretend it's a court room. Don't just tell me they are bad with
>or without "bungee". Show me, so that I can see the light. I am not trying to
>be sarcastic I am really trying to understand this.


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