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Sorry to tell you this, but Mat (IMHO) has a valid point. It is Dan that is out to lunch. Dan would give us all crayons because we could possibly hurt ourselves with pencils. No dive can be made if the potential potential potential potential (et. nauseum) bottom exceeds a PO2 of 1.4 - thus spoketh Dan Volker. So .. to use a real world example (at least real to me where I dive), no one other than trained Trimix divers should dive at Mukilteo (Seattle, Washington area) because the slope descends on down to 500 ft - well below any recreational air/nitrox po2 level. Students diving to 60 feet might accidently decide to go down to 500 feet and we must do weverythin in our power ti prevent that from happening. Give it up. The position and the arugment taken by Dan assumes that all divers are stupid and incapable of acting as reasonable rational human beings.. Dan, in his infinite but minescule wisdon, wants to dictate what all divers can and cannot do. That is, frankly, taking DIR to extremes. It is a dictatorship mentatlity - "only I can decide what you can or cannot do". Actually, a nice position. The requirement do dive mix beyond 80 feet eliminates 99.999999995% of the divers in the Seattle area and, as a consequence, I will not be bothered being around dumb, stupid, open water diver - who can only damage themselves in their stupidity. Talk about arrogance. Talk about stupidity. I would sooner trust divers than regulate what they can or cannot do. Dan: We are willing to put up with George because there is experience behind the mouth that roaredand if we can get past the diatribes, there are occasional words of wisdom in but what makes you God (besides being a self-proclaimed world class athlete). You have contributed very little positive to our knowledge and often most of what you "publish" is wrong. Garrett Weinberg At 12:00 PM 17/09/1998 -0700, Mat Bloedorn wrote: > > > >Come on now Dan, > > > >Tri mix for a recreational dive to 80-90 ft?? So... just in case the > >diver can't control his/her depth. They will now need to carry > >doubles in case they go too deep (and you also gotta have enough gas > >for the rescue). Two deco mixes (50/50 and O2) cause 80/20 is "stroke > >mix" (rescuing someone at 190 is gonna get you into deco). How about > >a canister light. If they gotta go down to rescue someone you're > >gonna need to be able to see. Oh, Oh! don't forget the rule of > >thirds. > > Mat, if you don't know what you're talking > about (and you obviously don't), stop confusing > the issue. Learn to listen. Shut the fuck up. > > rgrds billyw > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.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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