I'll tell you what it was a butt-cold 42F bottom on the Mexicana today 
and I (nor any of the other DIR divers) were having any problems. I had 
74 min in water time and I think that duct-tape boy was in there for 90 
or so.

 Jim

Sender: Jess Armantrout  Date: 4/24/99 12:02 PM

>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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