Jess,

You are absolutely right.  DIR and cold water DO mix well.  The vast
majority of my diving is done in cold water.  In the Great Lakes the bottom
temp. at 200' is 38 degrees 365 days 3 out of every 4 years and 38 degrees
366 days in the forth.  In fact we generally throw a party when the
thermocline drops below 80' or 90'.  Further I did much of my training in
the Great Lakes where I not only had to do valve shutdowns but I had a
prick instructor (who subscribes to this list) who felt that it was
necessary to do valve shutdowns in a smooth and controlled manner while
swimming and WITHOUT breaking pace!!!  Oh, by the way I can do it in 3
fingered mitts or dry gloves.

If these idiots can't preform such a simple skill as a valve shutdown they
need to take-up a different hobby like origami.  But they would probably
find a way to hurt them self with that too.  Paper cut to the jugular???  


12:02 PM 4/24/99 , Jess Armantrout wrote:
>I have been getting private e-mails that tell me DIR, specifically
>manifolds, will not work in cold water.  The Swedish brothers don't seem to
>have any trouble, and when I was cutting my technical teeth in South Holston
>Lake in East Tennessee I didn't have any problems.  South Holston is a
>spring fed lake in the Appalachian Mountains.  It is 42 degrees at 200 feet
>in the summer, 37 degrees in the winter, 3 foot viz all the time.  I had a
>piece of shit Seatec bag suit, woolie underwear and three finger mitts that
>were the worst, but I could still reach all three valves on my piece of shit
>Genesis manifold that connected my worse piece of shit Genesis 120's.
>
>Cold water?  Been there, done that got over it.
>
>Even as a stroke I could out-dive you guys.  And now you're challenging me
>to come dive your sights?  I have nothing to prove.  You guys, however seem
>to have a great deal to prove.
>
>Trout
>
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