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To follow up on George's post: For those of you who design these convoluted systems to identify your deco gas by touch. Just one question. If you can't read the markings on your tank how are you going to read your depth gauge? Do you carry a special Braille depth gauge that you can read by touch also? If the conditions are that bad, are you actually going to pop a deco reg in your mouth without knowing your depth? In a cave you normally won't be bringing your deco gas beyond the depth that it can be breathed so you could theoretically deco out of a cave dive in zero vis by gauging the position of your bottles. But that won't work for ocean diving when you carry your deco gas with you. Kent Lind > -----Original Message----- > From: KVI [mailto:kirvine@sa*.ne*] > Sent: Saturday, November 21, 1998 7:24 AM > To: cavers@ca*.co* > Cc: techdiver; freeattic@co*.ci*.uf*.ed* > Subject: Don't Bother - Tank ID > > > Don't bother telling me that there are situations where you can not > see the bottles and need to have some convoluted scheme for identifying > them, unless you will, in front of me, take two differernt handguns, one > that is loaded and one that is not, and go into the closet and pull the > trigger to your head on the unloaded one by "feel", "color", "poodle > jacket" or other farm animal stupid method of identification. > > The fact is, for all of you instructors who are too damn stupid to get > this, if you can not CERTAINLY identify a gas, YOU DO NOT BREATHE IT. I > do not care what kind of assinine "standards" that have been imposed > upon you. > > If you are so afraid of deco , don't dive. > > If you are too stupid to do it right , don't dive. > > If the condidions are that bad, don't dive. > > If you can not understand this , don't dive, AND FOR GOD'S SAKE > PLEASE DO NOT TEACH. > > > -- > 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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