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Steve,
I know exactly what you mean. I live in San Diego (No mix here except your
own...),
when I took my trimix course in July up in L.A., one of the recreational
"Instroketors" at
the shop actually called Trimix "Voodoo Gas". The bozos around here are so far
back in
time, it's Medieval! So Cal is way, WAY behind the curve... Pity.
Perry "Voodoo Gas Diver" Armor
Steve Hogan wrote:
> Joel,
>
> It is still this way in So Cal about Mix. If you want it, you need to mix it
yourself.
> Most dive stores look at Mix like voodoo deathgas. I know of only one store
in So
> Cal that will fill Mix and that is in Riverside (a loooong way from the ocean)
> Sad.
>
> Regards
>
> Steve
> ------------------------------
> Date: 9/9/98 2:37 PM
> To: Hogan, Steve
> From: Joel Silverstein
>
> 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
> >
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> Joel D. Silverstein
> Scuba Training + Travel Co.
> http://www.NitroxDiver.com
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