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Garrett, thanks for the update At 06:42 PM 9/9/1998 -0700, Garrett Weinberg wrote: >Joel: > >Sorry to disappoint but Larry Elsivier is not the only dude in Washington >pumping. There are a number of us doing it right. > >I, for example, pump Nitrox (continuous blending), Partial Pressure Deco Fills >to 80/100%, Argon and Trimix (probably more trimix than anyone else in the (US) >Pacific Northwest) using a Rix system (no booster yet but lots of helium and O2 >in the banks). I'm not NAUI/ANDI but IANTD trained (through Blender IT). Maybe >that's why you didn't recognize another viable alternative. > >Other folks in town also pump including Steve Pearson and Fifth Dimension and >Silent World. > >We may not be South Florida but Nitrox/Mixed Gas diving is alive and growing in >the Northwest. > >Come visit us any time for some nice Grade J air > >Garrett Weinberg >Joel Silverstein wrote: > >> Kevin, now I know the reason I cant get a fill in LA <g> >> >> In all the years that enriched air has been on the market for recreatioanl >> divers, California has been the slowest to pick up on it. Other than Larry >> Elsivier up in Washington, and Wings Stocks in Santa Cruz -- does anyone >> else there fill gas? >> >> I tried to put a trip together about 18 mos ago and when I told them I >> wanted nitrox they looked at me cross eyed -- when I said -- OK -- just get >> me 10 bottles of oxygen, i'll mix my own -- they thought I was nuts. >> Needless to say we didnt go there. >> >> Snoop, sneak, look --- thats what you ae supposed to do. >> >> At 08:56 AM 9/9/1998 -0700, Kevin Rottner wrote: >> > >> >>Do it right or dont do it at all. >> > >> >I fill air and gas on a regular basis for my customers and students. When I >> >go aboard a boat, or into the back of a dive shop, I snoop, I peak, I look, >> >I leer and I take mental pictures of how they are filling. >> > >> >Joel, come to the Los Angeles / Orange County area. I have yet to find >> >someone doing it right ! >> > >> >Kevin >> >" You'll never miss the water, >> >until the well runs dry . . .. " >> > >> >as sung by Bob Marley >> > >> > [\] >> > | >> > | >> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> > o o >> > o o >> > o o >> > _____ o o >> >(_/\_) o o o >> > =( )= oo >> > >> >Kevin Rottner >> > >> >-- >> >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >> > >> Joel D. Silverstein >> Scuba Training + Travel Co. >> http://www.NitroxDiver.com >> -- >> Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >> > > Joel D. Silverstein Scuba Training + Travel Co. http://www.NitroxDiver.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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