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Hi Charles, Welcome to the list. You are in one of the right places - finally ! You are about to be burned at the stake for sins against man and nature by some of the more enthusiastic and passionate on this list, but do not let it discourage you. Grin and bare it and you will prosper. Like writers, tech divers have to suffer some minimum amount before they are considered "tech divers" among tech divers. This is a good place to log some of that suffering. Independent singles is a big no no, and we don't run any breathing gas supply over the left shoulder. To many on the list, TDI is a dirty word and the fact that you are looking for a regulator to run over the left shoulder after going through some TDI training provides just one more in a long series of justifications for that attitude. Someone who has it close at hand will provide you with the web site address for the WKPP configurations - please go to it and study it, making sure you concentrate of the "reasons" for these set-ups. Keep in mind that the technical info available here is good and valuable but the best thing you can get from this list is an improved approach to diving in general. A number of excellent divers here will disagree on specifics because what they perceive to be a threat varies with what they consider to be their own strengths and weaknesses. In the process of hashing it out we usually learn a lot about how to evaluate such things for ourselves even though we may not come to a consensus on what is the right or wrong way to do it. So! What I like to think of this list as being all about, more than anything else, is learning how to think about and approach the discipline of diving. It gets bogged down in pettiness from time to time but that only adds entertainment value. Again, welcome to the list, Chuck Boone ----------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 5/15/99 8:29:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Charles_McDonald@co*.co* writes: > Hello All > > I am new to the list (lurking for 1 day) and a relative newcomer to > technical diving. > > Just as a bit of background. I am a PADI OWSI and TDI Extended Range Diver. > > Most of my diving has been done in Dahab, Egypt. - Red Sea, but I have done > some diving in other tropical places such as the Coral Sea, Solomon > Islands, Florida Keys, Sodwana - South Africa, Great Barrier Reef, Bali and > Sulawesie (Indonesia) and finally, one dive in the Med off the coast of > France. > > I currently live in England but have yet to do some dives here. I have > dived in some of the quarries / pits they use for training but would not > really classify them as dives. I have joined a BSAC club and intend to do > some serious diving once I have purchased a drysuit. > > I have about 330 dives, of which perhaps 15 are proper ER dives (Redundant > gear etc.) > > I have a great deal of deep diving experiance (50m +) but most of it was > done with the standard rec gear. Stupid huh? Anyway, a close call in a deep > overhead environment convinced my that I should do the training. It was > also fortunate that the club I dive with in Dahab has now included TDI > training which was where I did mine. > > My equipment includes > Dive Rite Transpac II + Superwings (Jr Wings for single tank dives), > Spiro Arctic Reg > Forcefins > Uwatec Alladin Air X Nitrox > > I need to purchase a reg to feed over the left shoulder (I use independant > doubles) and a drysuit (As well as weights and tanks). > > So much for that > > Later > Charles -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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