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Well, I suppose if you were aiming the prop blast downwards. Keep in mind that the prop wash gos directly out of the back of a scooter. Your fins toss eddies upwards and downwards stirring up the stuff. I have never noticed it to be a problem. While I am not a cave diver, it seems to me that the only difference between scootering in caves and scootering in wrecks is stuff dangling from the ceiling and sharp metal edges, both avoidable. I don't hold the hammer down in a wreck, just use bursts to pull me along. And like I said there are points were you drop the scooter and have to carry on without it. I have just never seen any rulebook that says "Thou Shalt Not Scooter Insideth a wreck", have you? Jim Sender: Art Greenberg Date: 10/23/98 7:26 AM >At 09:24 PM 10/22/98 -0500, you wrote: >>Well I was serious. I was scootering through the inside of the chanango >>last weekend with no problem, and the relief on that wreck in no more >>than 20' at the highest. If I hit a tight spot I unclip the scooter an >>put it in front of me, no big deal. I will admit that on the mexicana It >>did get a bit tight in spots but no problem once I changed the prop pitch >>to a slower speed. Now there were no cables or anything in the way but I >>don't see why you can't scooter any place where you can swim. >> >> Jim > >What about prop wash and silt? Seems to me it would be a problem in >restricted passages and such. > > >Art Greenberg >artg@ec*.ne* > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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