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From: jtsowers@mi*.co* (John Sowers: icq: spider - aim:divrbum - yahoo:divrbum)
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: Re: Deep air dive...JUST SAY NO!
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:53:06 GMT
Although I agree with the basic premise of your statement (after
sorting out all the drivel), just what sort of mix would you use while
diving over a 2000' trench or while wall diving?



On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:26:38 -0400, kirvine@sa*.ne* rambled on
about: 

>Jim, this is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen from a dive
>"instructor" and boat captain. This kind of dangerous nonsense and short
>sighted thinking is why you find yourself in the situation you are in
>now.
>
> Nobody should plan gas for a dive that is other than for the deepest
>depth that can be hit on the dive. There is not only zero benefit from
>diving a hot nitrox for this dive, there are endless risks. What if
>there is a problem and one has to go to or ends up at the bottom , or
>inside the hold of the ship at 1.8 partial pressure of oxygen?
>
> Only the worst idiot would recommend something like this, and right now
>you are filling those shoes. You have no business recommending dangerous
>practices like this. 

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