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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:05:43 +0200
To: "John Grogan" <john@ro*.co*.uk*>
From: Peter Fjelsten <fjelsten@ma*.st*.dk*>
Subject: Re: Auto inflate smbs
Cc: Techdiver mailing list <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Den 15:05 30-04-99  fik jeg en mail fra dig som indeholdt pr=E6cis . . .
I've used mine in water as cold as 3 degrees C.

- Often?

True and it's because of the amount of things that you must remember, I
prefer to keep it to a minimum.  I only use the self-sealing bag now and I
only need to remember to pick it up and put it in my pocket.

- True.

So did I until I was twice in the situation where I deployed it and nothing
happened.  Quite often you're going to fill it and you get distracted on=20
the boat by someone or something else.  Then you forget, clip it on and=20
dive and don't realise until you're about to use it.  I'm not saying that=20
it's beyond anyone's mental capacity - it's just that it's too easy to get=
=20
distracted and forget about it.

- I know where you're coming from. And I see you point.

Yes I had the ADP.  I sometimes used my suit pocket, sometimes rear d ring.

- I think there may be a difference between buoys?

Glad to hear it.  Like many skills, deploying an SMB properly needs to be
practiced repeatedly.  Having a self-filling SMB means you don't practice
that skill until you really need to use it - that's not the time to=20
discover that you can no longer do it properly.

- In real life it's often so, but it needn't be.

How was that ?  ;-)

- I'll think about it. :-) I'll try some more times to see if it's a=20
problem.

Hilsen (Rgds.),
=09
Peter Fjelsten
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