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I have a couple of reasons why I wouldn't use a scooter inside a wreck. I've never tried it but in the rusty old wrecks we have up here I'd imagine you'd kick up quite a mess in the prop wash. Typically the wide-open spaces are the parts visited by most everyone else. I know you don't dive with a buddy, I typically don't either, but if someone were to try and follow your path it would probably be silted out. Reason why in wreck diving 101 you try and keep your find off the floor, be considerate of other divers. Now to the next problem, what happens if you have to go back? Usually I come out the same entrance I go in. I also don't see day light until I exit so any extra silt in the water is a bad thing. I know you're not ruining a line inside when scootering right? Lots of the wrecks by me are WW I and WW II vintage, there are lots of wire and things hanging. The wrecks are also deteriorating. Not that this would happen to you but I had a bad situation where I broke thought a floor. A very scary situation to be in, feels like the ceiling is caving around you. I assume that if for whatever reason you lose control you could easily go through a floor, ceiling or wall. I'm not trying to tell you not to do it. You're an experienced diver and know what you can and can't do. Next time you're up our way let me know. Most of the better wrecks are not big enough to scooter in. Try it on the Stolt, San Diego hell, even the Algol engine and boiler rooms are difficult. They are a mass of fallen scaffolding, staircases and ladders let alone the engines, boilers and pipes. We wont even talk about the mud hole wrecks! Personally I like going slow and looking (and taking) it all in. I agree that using a scooter to get to an area of the wreck and dropping the scooter is a great idea. I've done it myself while trying to get back to an area of a wreck I was working on.... Safe diving, Art. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Cobb [SMTP:cobber@ci*.co*] Sent: Friday, October 23, 1998 9:20 AM To: Dave Grey; Paltz, Art; techdiver Subject: Re: Scooter Info. Request - Thanks OK, guys, run it by me again as to why you can't use a scooter in a wreck? Is this some sort of evil taboo that nobody told me about? A scooter pulls you along even if you are surrounded by metal, er, right? I am in the wreck, I hit the button and I move along.... Sorry, I don't get it. Please eddycate me, Mr. Grey. Jim Sender: Dave Grey Date: 10/22/98 11:36 PM >Not everybody is stuperkeyboardiver. >Some of us are mere mortals. >Later, ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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