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On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 03:01:02 -0500, Bill Wolk wrote: (big snips) > With that ludicrous gas management plan for independent doubles, we know > this must be the Royal Navy's recruiting pitch....wait...no...I got it > assbackwards...it's "If you can scratch your buddy's butt, you can be in > the Royal Navy." Strike, You wanna reply to this or shall I? Me? OK. 1) Independent doubles? What independent doubles? Never have been and in fact couldn't be. They couldn't manage the gas in that fashion with independents. 2) I wrote: > As a partial defense of this method of diving and the lack of SPG's, I believe > that there are quite a few professional diving units who use this method, > including the NSW (a State in Oz) Police Diving Unit for one. > > The reason is that they often (mostly?) dive in such crud that they wouldn't be > able to see their SPG's anyway. Therefore, decanting their bottles in this > fashion is, I would think, the only form of gas management available to them. > Did you read this? Maybe you didn't understand it just like you didn't understand that the doubles are indeed manifolded. The Royal Navy as well as any number of other professional diving teams have been doing it a damn sight longer than you, or I, or anyone else on this list, except that they do it in the most extreme conditions and they have no choice about it. You and I have that choice. Sure they can learn, we all can, but belittling them in the way you have is ignorant, stupid, petty and mean spirited. These are the kinds of people who fish up the bodies, look for the evidence and lord knows what else. Christian -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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